pc: lucas

[sacredpath]

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[faithkept]

[Welcome to the bell tower... He's sitting on the floor with his hands clasped in prayer, though he'll open his eyes once he hears someone else enter.]

Ah— Shadowheart, dear. Hello.

[sacredpath]

[that is so scary. like she assumes he's afflicted but also this is still so much.]

What happened?

[faithkept]

[HE IS JUST A LIL GUY DOIN SOME LIL PRAYERS though his hands fall into his lap at that, and his brow furrows faintly.]

I'm afraid I can only answer so much. I don't know what happened to Yves.

[sacredpath]

You don't?

[frown...]

You found him?

[faithkept]

[He shakes his head slowly, and then also frowns before shaking it again.]

...I must have... gotten his rapier earlier. We did spend our time together that night, when we were all locked down.

[sacredpath]

[okay well. lucas. she remembers another time you didn't seem to remember what happened and feels concerned.]

Can you tell me what did happen, and why? I want to understand.

[faithkept]

[This game can't possibly have TWO cultists with memory problems! Soon they will be separated, at least. Lucas just hesitates for a second.]

...If I didn't act quickly... I worry for what might have become of them. So I went to find them before they could be found by another.

[sacredpath]

Saber and Jacopo, you mean? You went to find them before someone else could?

[faithkept]

[He shakes his head again, though there's another little furrow at his brow about it.]

Not someone... The source behind it all.

[sacredpath]

I see. Do you remember at all if you found any of them?

[faithkept]

Yes. I found Saber and Jacopo.

[A nod! He does remember that as a thing that definitely happened.]

[sacredpath]

And what happened to Saber and Jacopo?

[faithkept]

I sent them to the other side, where they may be safe.

[Amen!]

[sacredpath]

[swallowing, but she nods.]

I see. But for Yves, you were seeking him out, wanting to find him before anyone else hurt him, but you don't recall finding him?

[faithkept]

[Another little knit at his brow, but he shakes his head.]

No, I don't. I know that he was there with me when the barrier appeared... But after that, I had found Saber.

[sacredpath]

But you had his rapier. Do you remember how you came to have his rapier?

[faithkept]

It must have been before I left. Before I left where they were all sleeping...?

[sacredpath]

But you don't remember. And there were marks from Yves' rapier in the place where his body was found.

[faithkept]

[HE JUST KIND OF looks like he zones out for a second, his gaze becoming a little distant and drifting to some point over Shadowheart's shoulder. But it doesn't last very long.]

I don't know why that was the case, or how it could have been.

[sacredpath]

[this hurts so much to watch.]

...I'm not pushing because I want to be cruel. But you have to look at it, Lucas. Eventually, you have to look at it, or it will always haunt you.

[faithkept]

[There is something about this that he seems to deeply and instinctively reel away from, to the point that he rises to stand, though his hands stay clasped together.]

...I would not do harm to my students.

[sacredpath]

[she swallows again. she knows this terror too well to be fully comfortable with it. the horrors of the things that might have been done to you, that you might have done, in the cracks in your knowledge about yourself. she curls her hands in her lap.]

I know you would never want to harm your students.

[faithkept]

[He does seem to ease at that, at least. Most of his outward-manifesting tension is pretty mild regardless, so it's really only visible in the slight slope of his shoulders and the way his folded hands lower just a bit.]

...Yes. And so I never would.

[sacredpath]

I don't think that's how it works here.

[or maybe anywhere, for him.]

But I hope you'll find out what happened to him, and let us know.

[faithkept]

[There's a thin flicker of a hesitant smile, because he logically understands how the affliction works, but just can't apply it to himself. Not when it comes to Yves - never Yves.]

Of course. I'm certain that I will, and I'll be sure to write back as soon as I know it so that you all may rest at ease.