sacredpath | pc: jiaoqiu

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[ she can have helped carry him tbh he was probably passed out for a good while

gives you a general wound overview copypaste: he has like, stab wounds everywhere. it's his shoulder, his legs, and in his stomach. they look like someone was trying to run him through with a sword with the shoulder and stomach, but the legs are more shallow, thinner. one of his arms is just absolutely useless - a gouge near the inner elbow/forearm, something that looks like it was made with some sort of sharp teeth. it's messy. there's also some sort of gouge-y bite wound on his shoulder, too.

he's got slash marks across his face, too. kind of claw like. and his left ear is ripped in half - it's missing the top half of it, so he's just got half an ear. it's all bandaged as much as it can be.

he's sitting up in bed with a blanket. and he looks up in her direction when she speaks! it's pretty clear that his vision is really fucked today. his eyes are open but he is not seeing her at all. ]

Shadowheart?

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sacredpath

[she'll come and check on him, probably check his wounds to the extent they haven't been treated.]

Yes, it's me. I just wanted to see if you were awake.

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fried

[ he rests his head against the wall. she can look! they're all clean, at least, if a little nasty just because of the nature of the injuries. ]

Yes. Barely. [ a little wry. ] ... The others, are they alright?

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sacredpath

They are. Or at least, they're all resting, the same as you.

[none of them were exactly great]

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fried

[ a slow exhale, a nod, and then: ]

... And I didn't hurt you? [ his fingers flex. ]

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sacredpath

You couldn't have if you'd tried, in the state you were in.

[a reassuring smile, it's fine!]

Did something happen to make you worry?

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fried

Small blessings, I suppose.

[ he thuds his head against the wall. ow. ]

The woods behind my eyes went after Taair, as well. [ he stares down at the bed. ] I can't risk hurting anybody else.

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sacredpath

Please don't worry so. I wouldn't simply let you hurt me.

[at least, she'd defend herself, or try to.]

Whatever happened to you there, you're safer now.

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fried

I don't think I'd be able to do anything against you even if I was in good health.

[ wryly, at least.

silence, for a long moment. and then he nods. safer, now. probably. ]

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sacredpath

I wouldn't go that far.

[she'd never count out experience and smarts, but he would probably lose an arm-wrestling contest.]

Do you know who you are? Where you are?

[that's been a feature of both cyoas so far so it just seems like a constant.]

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fried

[ a nod, at that. ]

For now, I do. [ sigh. ] Though I think I rather confused Lucas, earlier, telling him I was a high school student at a private academy.

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sacredpath

Is that what it was about? Being a school child?

[and yet you all became almost dead. for what.]

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fried

The four of us were children with a connection to a forest that seemed to be sentient. [ his fingers drift to the injury at his inner arm, and dig into it a little. ]

Our goal was to find this... tomb of Glendower, but of course nothing went right.

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sacredpath

[oh. well, that story does sound familiar to her, actually.]

What happened?

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fried

We followed clues that led us to that tomb. We assumed he was sleeping, not dead.

But when we found him, he'd been dead for a long time, and the forest was corrupted. [ ... ] It set us against each other. Whatever had corrupted the forest took control of me, and sent Yves into a frenzy.

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sacredpath

So you all attacked one another? Or just you and Yves, against the others?

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fried

Yves first, one night. He came at us with a sword.

And then me, the next day. I was the source of the car crash.

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sacredpath

That's awful.

[why the fuck do they still not know why this is happening.]

...I know one week was yours, your memories. Last week was mine.

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fried

[ hums... ]

That does not surprise me, with what I've heard from those who experienced it. [ ... ] I do wonder what the point is.

It seems cruel to take a healer's memories and use them to hurt people. [ he means both of them, even if her goddess is all about the pain. ]

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sacredpath

I don't know how much of a healer I am.

[a small smile.]

I was trained for that purpose, so I could serve as a healer on missions for Lady Shar. But on our final mission... the others I was tasked to accompany all died. Only I survived.

[she doesn't really have survivor's guilt about that. she had some attachments to them, but they weren't friends. but. not exactly great moments in being the party healer.]

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fried

I'm not sure how much you heard from the four who toured my memories, but I had a similar experience.

[ he glances at her. ]

There is always a chance you'll lose those you're meant to heal, but I don't think that stops anybody from trying.

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sacredpath

Yes. I think it's more that I didn't particularly care about it as much as I cared about saving my own skin.

[she doesn't have that instinct, that drive, to save other people. but she wasn't exactly groomed to be someone who would.]