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Taner goes after every bit of neck he can get his fingers to, still to make her squeal. He does shift his upper body back up to gave them both as much personal as a person can have during a tickle fight. But it does seem that Bianca got the real sweet spot so he really just has to make sure Savaak doesn't get away too quickly.
Since Taner's just poking, Bianca has the best spot! Savaak's laughing too hard to say much, so she bucks her hips to the side in an attempt to throw off Taner that doesn't risk them nearly butting heads again.
"Ahaahaha. No!" Her fingers twitch with the poking!
Savaak knows what gets people out of this, and Taner is just rides out the buck the same as he did with Bianca. So long as it doesn't come with the added force like before he's good on balancing himself. He keeps trying to tickle around her neck, but those defenses seem pretty good.
"Whoop!" Bianca lifts her fingers from Savaak's feet after she hears her surrender, and shuffles forward, off her roommate! She slips to her feet and turns, offering a hand for her other hand.
Bianca flashes a grin that's quickly overtaken by laughter. She eyes Taner's hand for all of a second before lifting both her own. Trio of high fives, all around!
Taner sits under the window in his room, exhausted both physically and mentally. All his work was done, body pushed to its limits training, and now sleep eluded him entirely. He roughly runs a hand through his hair in frustration, nothing to do or could do but just sit and stew. His other hand holding a simple picture...
She enters, leaving the door mostly shut behind her. Savaak figures Bianca will come in at some point, anyway, but that's not her main focus as she approaches him.
"How are you holding up?" Yeah, she knows. A lot of people know. Dropping into a crouch nearby, she rests her arms across her knees.
Taner glances up from the photo and braves a smile, which comes out as more of a half-hearted smirk. He gives a quick shake of his head and dark chuckle.
"Not well."
He sighs.
"Exhausted from training, can't sleep, and all my work is done."
She can tell, but doesn't say as much. The shadows under his eyes are creeping. Instead, Savaak nods.
"Putting your focus into things you can do is good, but you need a break. If you keep up when you're this exhausted, you're not going to be able to function." She tries not to think of if it was one of her own siblings that was in Zora's place. She'd never met the girl, but it was safe to say Taner had stronger bonds with his sibling than she did her own.
Any reprieve he tried to this point felt hollow, unable to give his mind a moment's rest. Work and training were the only things that worked because of their relation to his sister's plight. If he could get better, get things done... he would be working to a goal that may help.
Everything else feels useless. It shouldn't but it does.
"That's why you have us." Savaak nods as though she's giving him sage advice.
"I realize it's probably not what you want to hear, but you need to get out of here. Working yourself this far into exhaustion has gotten you so far, but now it's time to try for a break. See at it with fresh eyes after you've stopped beating yourself up, inside and out, and give yourself a chance to rest.
"I'll look over what you've found if you'd like. Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't, but this isn't the answer. If you keep this up, you won't be in any condition to help when they bring news."
Taner nods solemnly, makes sense but his ability to do anything is severely impaired.
"Murdoch is handling the follow up from what happened on the raid. If you want to help with that, you'd have to talk to him. I was doing some work on a plan to attack a presidential candidate, Alexander Warrens, in relation to recent attacks around the city. Files are in the system in you want to look."
"Then I will, but first, we're getting you out of here. At least out of a lonely dark room." She straightens and rises to her feet, holding out a hand for Taner. "C'mon, we'll go find Bi an get you out of this cave for a bit. If it's not doing anything for you, we won't hold you prisoner." Maybe. Then again, they had five pages' worth of a tickle fight so anything goes.