Anyway he has to do a bit of hunting because for once she's trying to avoid people, but he finally catches her....in the Cargo bay. Returning to the SCENE OF THE CRIME, plus it's boring and drafty in there.]
I won't offer to do it for you if you don't want anyone seeing your hands, but I hope you're not just leaving them be. I can give you some bandages to use, if you want.
No! [She winces.] That's not it, it's no big secret, I really am just on my way, I just — it's very crowded right now, and I wanted some air, and I didn't want anyone trying to push me into a med pod when Yuri got impaled, and Gregor and Arthur...got their throats slit?
[she shakes her head.]
Everyone's concern is very sweet, but I got off so easily, I really cannot emphasize that enough.
Maybe. [A beat.] I should have known better, though. I'd seen what happened to them before, it came for me last. I had time, I knew what the trick was. And I still — you know when you think you've figured out something completely, and you walk in so confident, and then someone just whacks you upside the head with something different?
I had no idea she had gone through something so awful. And Nodd, too. It was much crueler than just showing us the miserable things as they were. It's like picking an old scar bloody again long after it's gotten healed.
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week 3 thursday
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Anyway he has to do a bit of hunting because for once she's trying to avoid people, but he finally catches her....in the Cargo bay. Returning to the SCENE OF THE CRIME, plus it's boring and drafty in there.]
Charles?
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Hey, Princess. Gotten your injuries bandaged yet?
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Her hands are suddenly behind her back.]
On my way!
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I won't offer to do it for you if you don't want anyone seeing your hands, but I hope you're not just leaving them be. I can give you some bandages to use, if you want.
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[she shakes her head.]
Everyone's concern is very sweet, but I got off so easily, I really cannot emphasize that enough.
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I mean, I have some on me right now, so no medbay necessary—I can toss 'em to you if you want?
... And I'll be honest with you. I spoke to Yuri about what happened, already.
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[Deflating. But she does trudge over, holding her hands out for him.]
I guess it's only fair. I didn't give you much leeway.
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[though he says it lightly, rather than with any judgment. he will help bandage her hands if it looks like they need it.]
I won't press you about what happened, if you don't want to talk about it. Just know that we're all here for you, all right?
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[okay you can have hands. She doesn't actually feel like being that stubborn about them. It's the other stuff that sucks.]
What did Yuri say? Is she doing okay?
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Mm... I think she's kind of shaken, but managing. She's trying to be mindful of her injuries, at least.
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[So much hands. Her fingers flinch in at times. It stings something fierce.]
It was my fault. I got...I fell for it all. Like a total idiot.
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... I wouldn't call you an idiot. These things are designed to prey on us.
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Would that we could always be rational, but that's not what it means to have a heart.
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[She watches the tidy work he makes of her wounds with a furrow between her brows.]
It was a lot like what's been happening all week, actually. Except...we saw things the way we wished they would be.
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[...]
Yeah, Yuri said something about that—how your life would be like without one aspect, until it ended up tearing your peace away again?
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[She sighs.]
I had no idea she had gone through something so awful. And Nodd, too. It was much crueler than just showing us the miserable things as they were. It's like picking an old scar bloody again long after it's gotten healed.
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... Yeah. Something like that would mess me up too—it'd mess with a lot of people.
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[Because psychadelic storms should show some manners.]
Everything that happens here is incredibly invasive, and I've had quite enough of it. Don't they get tired of rubbing our noses in everything?
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Apparently not. [these storms are very rude!!] Just another piece of misery to deal with on Thursdays.