AUDIENCE 🚀 KEITH

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[bulls]

I got shot by a gun, I think I'm alright for now. I'll wait 'til you've all had your rotations and then I will.

[ glances unhappily at the stump. ]

Did you get fitted for something while you were in there?

[bladeward]

You better. Just because I'm missing arm, doesn't mean I can't drag you to one myself.

[ he'd reopen his wounds in the process, but that's fine! this more of a threat, rather than a promise. ]

I did, yeah. Just don't feel like messing with it right now. Especially after finding out about the HER-MES messaged about them. [ thanks anise ] They are fine to use, right?

[bulls]

Yeah. It's the new prosthetics that are fine... our old ones... pretty sure those were tampered with somehow.

These ones have all been fine though. One would think they'd have simply given out when ours did the other week otherwise, yeah?

[bladeward]

Considering all the changes, that was probably the case. I've seen the profiles.

I'll worry about it later, right now I'm much more concerned about what we saw... and are still seeing.

[ stares into the glass cabinets and frowning. coughs up some emerald petals, gathering them up and tossing them in the nearest bin. ]

[bulls]

[ io just frowns a little bit, watching him a moment before kind of scooting a little to the side. join him on this terrible little bed. ]

It's... it was a lot. Tell me what's on your mind.

[bladeward]

[ yes, please get his mind of the horrors he is seeing in every shiny service. he will come and sit. ]

You still seeing them too? [ hateful after effects. ]

Everything we all went through individually and as a group... the things we saw and heard. [ looks down at io's new port. ]

You knew the language, which I guess isn't the oddest thing, but the whole thing about the mother earth. Couldn't help but think about that memory of yours I saw a few weeks back. The first one.

[bulls]

It was... familiar in a very ugly way. Though never in my life have I seen a creature or known a creature like that ever.

[ he clasps his hands together gently and gazes just. downwards at his knuckles. ]

But... there is a place like that where I am from. Not so much for prisoners, though the people kept inside... may as well have been.

[ he brow furrows, eyes closing. ]

[bladeward]

[ frowns at this and feels kinda bad about bringing it up.... coughs up some peachy petals, with some kind of blue mixed in. pockets them.

bonks head against io's shoulder and stares down at where his hands are clasped. ]

It must have been difficult, even if it wasn't an exact copy... I'm sorry.

[bulls]

[ reaches up hand to just. ruffle his hair gently... pats cheek (face). the one with the much older scar, not the new one. ]

That was... not a priority for me. I had to focus. So. Don't apologize.

[ it... affected him, and it's visible in his expression, somewhat pained, but he's far more concerned about what it's done to all of them. ]

The difficult part was not so much the familiarity. But the tainting of the circumstance. Beastly thing...

[bladeward]

[ closes eye... which means he can't see for a second. it's fine. ]

Alright, alright. [ but still... he is sorry, because even if it's something you push away in the moment, it always comes back later. somehow. some way... and sometimes worse. ]

That's understandable... that thing really did pray on every vulnerable piece of us. And even feels like it still is.

[ aaaaaaa it was all hateful!! ]

When we all fell, what happened to you? You cut us out of that thing...

[bulls]

Same as you. Managed to... wake up from that dream. When I realized what was happening, I used my scalpel to get myself free so I could cut through the rest.

[ a little smile? a tug at the corner of his mouth. ]

It rends flesh better than most of its modern day cousins.