sacredpath | chrono

From:

[ he's slowly nursing a fruit tea. very slowly. there's a grey tabby in his lap purring away. ]

Feelin' like I'm not gonna forget those sounds for a while.

From:

sacredpath

Even not watching, it's impossible to forget.

[sympathy. it was truly brutal.]

You seemed especially upset by it.

From:

clockpunk

[ slowly, he shakes his head. ]

Not more than anyone else, I don't think. Just worse at hiding it.

From:

sacredpath

I don't know if hiding it is a virtue, anyway.

[but it did seem like he took it personally...]

From:

clockpunk

[ he didn't really! just had an imagery-related flashback in the middle of it, and was unprepared for that level of brutality.

there is an aspect he has dwelled on that bothers him a lot, though. ]

Those three were really close. It's like... a last spit in our faces, to put them through that.

From:

sacredpath

They can twist our relationships against us, but we don't have to give into the manipulation.

[or rather, siffrin had no choice, but she respects what uruha did, showing them care anyway. this is just a mild criticism on marcoh, who is allowed his anger, certainly, but whose decision to let it control him is something else entirely.]

They have been doing that this whole time.

From:

clockpunk

[ he chooses not to say anything, which is enough of a silent agreement. in an earlier week, he'd have understood better. but possession - it was a horrible thing to come to terms with, but not difficult to understand how it affected one's agency. ]

I know that, just-- hard to explain. It was more extreme, or it felt like it.