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[HELP HELP the skrunkly cat off the street

He has a seat with her, here here, sit sit. He puts the cube in his lap.]

Not yet, I don't think? A bit of a tickle sometimes.

[This is what happens when you are not emotionally constipated.]

It worries me because they're flowers...

[naeddre]

[that's valid, sometimes you just say what you're feeling instead of swallowing it.

but she will sit! she sits and presses her leg against his, like she's not sure he's real, still. i'm sorry, she's gotten so much more touchy since he's been gone.]

... Yes. I'm not excited about the fact that we're coughing up more plantlike things. [god.] I'm not sure the significance.

[satisficing]

[Well, that's great, because SO HAS HE. He leans his own leg against hers, SO GLAD THERE IS NO MORE RUSTY GREASE.]

So many of you were doing it today after running into me. [Hmm.] Am... I... the cause?

Lucien wasn't coughing any up when he was with me either...

[naeddre]

[man you missed all the good lore effects she had some wild rust going on]

I doubt you're the cause. I've been doing it since I woke up. [...] When did you see Lucien first? When did you even... how did you get here? You're not...

[i mean like, she was the one to examine his body when he died, so she's having a hard time with this.]

[satisficing]

[TCH!!!! MY LORE!!!

He reaches out to curl his hand over her own, bringing it to his thigh so he can wrap it up with both hands.]

It's okay. I woke up in the stasis pod last night with some of the senior crew. I had to stay in the room to be monitored, and I could only have a few visitors because they were worried something might happen.

I wanted to see you, too, but... I was really tired, so I just called Lucien. I'm sorry. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep on him before we even talked about much anyway.

[naeddre]

[tch, calling your boyfriend before your roomie

no, it's fine. he's alive and that's what she cares about. a pause.]

... But nothing did happen? [there's a second where she kind of just looks thoughtful? and then she shakes her head.] You don't know how it happened? Just that you woke up in the stasis pod?

[satisficing]

[sometimes a gremlin friend wants to shock a gremlin friend on the mingle listen here]

I don't... really know how it happened, but I can say the experience was... less than stellar. Something... has... definitely eaten us in some kind of way, I think.

[naeddre]

[that's valid

she. makes a face.]

... Alright. So I was correct that it's literally eating people and isn't a metaphor. [she KNEW she was right, CHARLES!!!!] It's doing that to planets, too. The ship.

Which I assume you know considering I think the dead sent us the hundred thousand rats.

[satisficing]

I can't say for certain, but the imagery was...

[Well, yeah.]

Ah, so you do know. Good. [A pause.] We're being blamed for a hundred thousand rats...?

[He cannot lie to say his life, though, so his lips sort of twist in amusement.]

[naeddre]

[gross!! gross.]

Don't try to get away with this, you lie like a cowlick. [which is to say he can't lie because it sticks up in weird places] The rest of the dead were horrified to know that it was Yuri who was attacked, apparently.

[she shifts her fingers so she can hold one of his hands where he's got her clasped.]

... How much do you remember? I feel as though I have so much to talk to you about that I haven't been able to fit into those letters.

[satisficing]

[me blinking rapidly at receiving one of the most southern sayings right back at me but from you

He allows her to have his hand. Hand holding.]

We were a little dismayed, yes. I'll have to tell her sorry on our behalf.

[He smiles lopsidedly.]

As far as I know, everything. The letters are too short, yes. But now you can tell me anything.

[naeddre]

[HELP this is all your fault, but also partitio's fault]

I wouldn't even know where to begin. [she says, with a sigh.] ... How is everybody? I hear from you and Sidon the most.

[satisficing]

[He offers her hand a gentle squeeze.]

They're okay, surprisingly. Everyone has mostly gotten along. Except me and Scien at first, I guess.

And Harley and Owner for a moment.

[naeddre]

Scien is hard to get along with in general.

[...] And I can imagine I know why with Harley and Owner.

Are they in high spirits? Low spirits? Sidon is always encouraging, but I know that's how he is.

[satisficing]

[He smiles fondly, but it's a bit weak with understanding.]

I think he's getting a bit worn down actually. He was a little upset after the last... rift. The one... for Lucien. He had to harm others, so... [It really got to Sidon, naturally.] The rest of us, too.

But we haven't given up completely. We've been working on what we can.

[naeddre]

... Mm. Yes, Owner told me a little about it.

[but she did not realize that it was actually sidon until she got viktor's message. a beat.]

You... you went through something of mine.

[satisficing]

[Their poor fish man. He was going through it a bit, pretending not to be. But Viktor knows better. Because...... (gestures at Throne).]

Yes...

[Another squeeze to her hand, gentle.]

It's okay. Though... you had left out a little chunk of explanation before, I have realized...

[Teasing. Lightly.]

[naeddre]

[she looks kind of bemused.]

... Yes, well. I wasn't going to tell you everything the very first day I met you. [...] I'm sorry that you had to experience him. Lucien told me a little about it, though he wasn't on... your side, so I don't know exactly what it was you saw.

[satisficing]

Understandable.

[Stop being closed off, that's why you are choking on flowers (no).]

You don't have to apologize. I did not like him, as I'm sure you've heard a thousand times. He was... an "arsehole," as Lucien would say. Aside from your brothers and sisters... that was not a family, Throne. Not at all.

[naeddre]

[you're not wrong tbh]

... I know. [she says, softer.] They were all I had, at the time.

[satisficing]

I know.

[Her hands just keep getting squeezes, I guess.]

Were you... actually looking for treasure? For him. That's what he had us do. Look for a treasure.

[naeddre]

[it's okay, she likes the hand squeezes. she pets at his hand with her thumb.]

... No. His jobs usually were assassinations. [she glances at him.] What was the treasure he had you find?

[satisficing]

[She really got beat up by affectionate touch, damn.]

It was... um, a treasure of a god? Alpates? But it turned out to be... two pieces of a mirror, I think.

[naeddre]

[she did, shoma was like i'm going to hug you to death and she was like oh my god actually this is great]

Oh - no, Alpates was a woman. We found her hidden away in a cathedral. [...] But she did have a mirror. I'm not sure what it was for, but she had one.

We'd always heard that it was some sort of forbidden treasure, as children.

[satisficing]

[He pulls one hand away and up so he can snap his fingers in recognition.]

That was it. [His hand goes back down on top of hers.] When we met up with Lucien, Eunhyuk, and Shu, I think... they may... have killed her?

[His brain was scramblies, he can't remember. Someone was fucking dead.]

That's what Fa--he told us. Sort of. But we found the mirror with... two other people. Very bizarre. A man and a woman. We had to fight them.