PC: Tama 💀

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[ YES, CHILD? ]

better than you are, it sounds like.

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[ long.

long.

loooooong pause. ]

...oh, so you heard about that...

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yes nico, i heard about that. did you get healed?

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mostly
that sounds bad but i mean i had the worst of it healed and i've been prescribed multiple heals in the next several days

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good!!!
and if you’re still injured then, come and find me i have a remedy too

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you don't need it for yourself or anyone else you were with?

[ nobody has explained what happened. just that there was another group. ]

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no, we weren’t badly injured. a bit scuffed, maybe? but we got off pretty lightly.

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good
i'm glad
what happened...?

[ a pause. ]

we're at phoenix if you want to come by
if that's easier
you don't have to

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i’m on my way.

[ b o y she is checking up on your sorry ass. ]

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[ he may or may not be secretly okay with that. secretly. ]

people're coming in and out so somebody can probably let you in
just be quiet when you do

[ and when she enters the dorm she will see why, and it's because nico is bundled up in a blanket or two on a couch, and there's a sleeping will curled up next to him. it's hard to see what the damage might be since he's under blankets and has been healed a bit, but he mostly looks like he's been through the ringer. there's a bandage on his left cheek, and another on the side of his neck. but he offers her a tiny wave.

the cocoa puff is also sleeping on the back of the couch. fambly. ]

...hey.

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[ you really put your boy through it two weeks running AND also britt was there and i bet you both enabled each other. points.

anyway.

aaaAAAAAAAA two of them. ]

Will too? [ BABIES.

tama looks distinctly less injured. she’s in comfier clothes that aren’t singed, and she has a band aid on her cheek now. there’s maybe a little bruising peeking out from her clothes but nothing like the stuff nico and will have going on. ]

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[ in my defense i didn't know shit and i also didn't know britt would be on this one.

but yeah. he's definitely looking her over carefully to make sure she was not downplaying anything. even with the minor damage, he doesn't look thrilled. that probably has more to do with the fact she was taken away at all to begin with. but he's letting a bandaged hand run through will's hair while he nods. ]

Reigen was also with us. [ a careful shrug. ] I would have rather not have either of them, but it seems like these little Thursday trips might be our new normal.

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[ i think it’s hilarious did you both just take potshots at each other, violently, all week?

she’s fiiiine. she looks more concerned at the state of the boys though — what the fuck. we really had three low-violence, bloodied returns and then this one. ]

… [ oddly she’s a little relieved it wasn’t just two teen boys on the sufferbus but— ] Did he get healed too?

As if we don’t have enough to deal with on a Thursday.

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[ :) it's been a week.

anyway yeah he is also very just. what the fuck. how come everybody else was fine and they went through that shitshow of an adventure? he would also like to know. but she asks the question and there's a sage nod. ]

I made sure to be extremely annoying about making sure the two of them were healed first. [ do not make this sound like a good thing, nico. ] I'm sure there are a few people who disagree with how things were handled but...I don't know if I care that much either.

[ he has his reasons and nobody actually asked why the two of them were bickering about who would heal first, so he sort of figured people could feel however they wanted about it. ]

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[ there there. ]

I’ll be honest, I don’t really have it in me to get mad about when you got healed so long as you GOT healed.

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[ thank you tama, this is why you're a fav. ]

...considering you experienced something, too. [ and now begins his favorite game: avoiding his issues to check on someone else. ] What actually happened? Where did you go?

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[ sparkle. ]

Nico.

[ denied. ]

Look at me, I didn't really even get hurt. Where I went isn't really that important.

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[ boo. ]

It's kind of important if this is going to keep happening to people on Thursdays. I told Temenos that there would probably be a second group after us if it was like last week, and I was right.

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I'm more worried about what's going to happen if more of these little excursions [ i never know what to call a cyoa when talking about it icly. journey? trip? shenanigan? ] turn out in the way yours did.

Ours wasn't without risk, but it wasn't actively trying to hurt us physically or mentally. [ ... ] Well, sort of. But we stopped it.

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And I'll tell you about it when I can. [ which is to say he's still kind of spooked and would much prefer to talk about tama's first. ]

...what do you mean sort of? What were you trying to stop?

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[ hmmmm. alright. ]

Well, the last death we had to stop was Axel's. So that was kind of a clear case of someone trying to harm one of us.

We succeeded though.

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[ hold the fuck on. ]

The last death? How many deaths were you dealing with? And also, why? [ DON'T WE HAVE ENOUGH MURDER ALREADY. :tails: ]

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Stopping them was kind of our thing. We were pretty good at it!

[ MORE DEATH. ]

Both of us could see the future in specific circumstances. And a lot of it was bad -- normally ending in death. So, we tried to stop those deaths from happening.

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[ oh i see. ]

That is the way of the future usually, yes. People die. [ but he frowns. ] So it was like you had future sight and could predict what would happen, and when you returned out of those visions you could meddle with circumstances to prevent the deaths. Like that? Or even more limited?

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It was snapshots — literally, in Axel’s case. He took photos and they showed things that hadn’t happened. For me, it was visions in mirrors.

We didn’t really control when they happened, they just did.