[ it definitely seems like she was hurt badly on the left side, and perhaps had some other tender spots, from the way she moves carefully. but it doesn't look like the injuries are bad enough to impair her range of movement. ]
Oh...
[ relieved for a moment. and then soot starts rising from her head. ]
[she's not rushing her, but she's watching her closely.]
Usually. It might be a few hours, or the next day depending. This town...sometimes isn't the kindest, and sometimes things happen. Nehan said it's an effect that makes things more dangerous. All the more reason it's important for everyone to stick together and not travel alone.
[considering kate is the baby of the entire group and has truly been suffering for weeks, yes, aerith is not surprised to hear this.]
There are a lot of nice things here, don't get me wrong. But sometimes fires start spontaneously, or the bees next to the greenhouse don't like people visiting them. And sometimes the things we face when we break into buildings encased in the fog are just as dangerous as the other things out there.
[that being said...]
I do wish you hadn't been sent back out there when you just arrived. You've barely had a chance to really get your bearings. Use the spring again if things still feel a little bad. It doesn't always have side effects, so it's easier than the swamp from the other side.
You're doing better than half the people here then. [dry.] ...are you okay? It's always one thing to hear about how bad they are, but it's another to experience it for yourself.
[fair. it's not like they weren't separated at points on her own cyoa too.]
...you don't have to tell me as long as you're able to talk to someone. [she'll preface it that way, because she doesn't like to pressure people.] But do you mind if I ask what did happen?
[she's fairly used to people not knowing how to verbalize things like this, so she's patient as she waits. when the answer comes, there's a tiny frown.]
You think? [more memory bullshit?] Do you remember what might've happened to lead to that...? [and there's a pause as she debates, determining if this next sentence will help or not.] When I died on ours, I knew how it happened. But it didn't feel like I was myself.
[so. it could be extremely confusing, and not to mention difficult to put it into words.]
There was a chasm, and a dark abyss... I don't remember hitting the bottom, if there was one. But when I woke up, I was a formless spirit without a body.
Was that the beginning of things? You were left as a formless spirit to find your way back? Or was that where you ended up after your original journey?
Gojo? [hold on wait then what the hell...she suddenly has to rethink of who was on what adventure, but maybe that doesn't matter.] Magic is usually tricky. That doesn't surprise me that there was a whole area of traps and puzzles.
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Oh...
[ relieved for a moment. and then soot starts rising from her head. ]
"Usually"...?
[ how often are people dying here..... ]
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Usually. It might be a few hours, or the next day depending. This town...sometimes isn't the kindest, and sometimes things happen. Nehan said it's an effect that makes things more dangerous. All the more reason it's important for everyone to stick together and not travel alone.
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[ probably because that's what everyone wanted to show kate when she first arrived. ]
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There are a lot of nice things here, don't get me wrong. But sometimes fires start spontaneously, or the bees next to the greenhouse don't like people visiting them. And sometimes the things we face when we break into buildings encased in the fog are just as dangerous as the other things out there.
[that being said...]
I do wish you hadn't been sent back out there when you just arrived. You've barely had a chance to really get your bearings. Use the spring again if things still feel a little bad. It doesn't always have side effects, so it's easier than the swamp from the other side.
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I will. Don't worry. I don't plan to "tough it out" if it really hurts.
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I really just caused problem after problem, and I wasn't the one to pay the price for it, so...
[ she doesn't feel like she has a right to complain. ]
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You think the others would say the same...? [a pause.] When they're in their right mind.
[her point is she somehow doubts it.]
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...you don't have to tell me as long as you're able to talk to someone. [she'll preface it that way, because she doesn't like to pressure people.] But do you mind if I ask what did happen?
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[ ... she's not good at talking about these sorts of things. there's some visible struggle as she tries to think of how to even start. ]
...
I think I died.
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You think? [more memory bullshit?] Do you remember what might've happened to lead to that...? [and there's a pause as she debates, determining if this next sentence will help or not.] When I died on ours, I knew how it happened. But it didn't feel like I was myself.
[so. it could be extremely confusing, and not to mention difficult to put it into words.]
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There was a chasm, and a dark abyss... I don't remember hitting the bottom, if there was one. But when I woke up, I was a formless spirit without a body.
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Lucas and Nona were trapped inside mirrors, and Gojo and I were looking for a way to free them when I fell.
I didn't wander for very long as a spirit, though... not before the mage found me.
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What...happened when the mage found you then?
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He asked if I wanted to be revived, and said that it would come at a cost.
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Did he say what the cost would be? Or did you have to take that risk yourself to find out?
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... I wanted to live, though.
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