AUDIENCE 🚀 GREGOR

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[verminous]

[stepping out into the freezing room annnd promptly shivering.]

Well, I felt great for a few seconds.

[bulls]

Yeah, it's a cold one instead. Great if you've been working outside, but...

[ burrows a little into the neck of his neck. ]

Still. How's everything looking?

[verminous]

Pretty good, I think? Feels like it's good.

[stretching out his legs, checking the carapace on his arm to make sure it's hardened back up...]

I think I just got so used to being injured and fixed that I kept forgetting.

[bulls]

Glad you made the time for it when it was quiet. Didn't want to have to throw you in again myself.

[ a huff. ]

[verminous]

I was trying to avoid that, yeah. Think if you didn't do it soon someone else would've.

[bulls]

I trust Rodya to carry you bodily before I'd ever have to, so.

[verminous]

Oh, I'm sure she would.

[he had the good sense to bundle up before getting in the pod, so he pulls his coat closer around himself as he takes a seat on one of the cots.]

But she probably figured I'd fix myself if I really needed to. I trust her to do the same for herself.

[bulls]

Good. Just grateful you have the sense to do so.

[ he yawns a little bit so a chilly cloud forms and gets up to go head over towards the cots. just sitting down and drawing a blanket a little over his bad leg. it's cold... ]

You have any plans for the rest of your day?

[verminous]

I sure don't after we woke up to this. Might go to the planet later just so I don't turn into an ice cube...

[the eudora is hot then it's cold it's yes then it's no]

[bulls]

Hopefully it'll pass... like the weird overgrowth in hydroponics the other week.

[ bleghhhhh ]

Here's hoping anyways.

[verminous]

It had better, or we're all gonna be sick by the end of the week just from the temperature changing up on us.

[bulls]

No thank you... Boddho... [ scrubs face at the thought. ] The amount of extra work that'd be. I'd have to rope in some help.

[verminous]

Well, I'm sure you could get it.

[though he does have to ask:]

...Boddho?

[bulls]

I mean, Kazuki's caught on quick. Perhaps it'd be a good practice - an influx of colds.

[ unless he catches one too. oh well. ]

A god of the Kin... she's the Earth. Where I'm from, you follow certain rules so as not to defile her... no digging, no cutting unless you're of a particular... [ searching for the word ] caste of the Kin.

[verminous]

... right. Think I get it, kinda.

[a bit. he's not a religious man and the city is not a religious place, but with the memories he saw-- he can fit things together.]

You know I'd help you out too, right?

[bulls]

[ a small nod, with a weary smile. ]

I know. I can count on you when things get tough.

[verminous]

When they're not too tough too, I'd hope.

[bulls]

Of course. That's easy - though I never did get to thank you for, ah, picking me up off the ground Sunday... so. Thank you for that.

[verminous]

Well, couldn't just leave you there, but-- are you all right, after that...? I know Callisto mentioned you guys said your augments hurt first.

[bulls]

Mmm... yeah. Had to take the weight off it for a bit. The port still hurt like hell, but...

[ pats leg a little. ]

Only thing making it hurt now's the cold. Feels normal for the time being.

[verminous]

...good, but... still worrying for almost all of you to go down from that at the same time.

[bulls]

Some of us are almost sure it was to keep us from preventing what happened. We were taking our turns, making the rounds. She wouldn't have...

[ a breath. ]

It wouldn't have happened if...

[ it's fine. just shuts up. ]

We're alright now. For the time being.

[verminous]

[...he reaches over to rest a hand on his arm, since they're both safely bundled up.]

Maybe not. Maybe she'd have just found another time and another way. It's-- what she wanted.

[bulls]

[ safely bundled. io just looks downwards. ]

It... it is...

[ they trail off. silence. unfinished thoughts as they just carefully pat his arm in turn. ]

... Shouldn't have had to. Sweet girl.

[verminous]

No. It wasn't-

[his fingers curl a little tighter around his arm.]

It wasn't right that it had to be her.

[sometimes all of it just makes him so--

...breathe, gregor.]