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Who: LiliS + guests
Where: LiliS
When: Day 498 and BEYOND

[ we're good right? of course we're good why wouldn't we be good ]

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You don't owe me any apology.

[ He busies himself chopping carrots ]

Is anything the matter? [ Also doesn't believe he's owed an answer, but will listen if one of whatever length is offered. ]

[ Opens his mouth to argue, then just bites his bottom lip and says nothing for a moment. ]

—Yesterday sucked in at least four different ways.

Edited 2022-10-15 02:03 (UTC)

[ Pointedly does not glance over. Instead he hands over some tea leaves in need of drying. Here, occupy your hands. ]

The poison effects for one, I imagine?

[ He'll do that. And he knows how, thanks to the books on the subject in the apothecary and feeling an obligation to Keep Up LiliS traditions, but he is definitely glad Gent's here to do a better, more regular job of it. ]

For two, really.

[ Watching Emu take that drink was... awful. ]

Two?

[ Keeping his eyes on his hands, more so he won't make this any less comfortable than because he's at risk of losing a finger. ]

[ Tight little shrug. ]

Persi and a friend on ZRAEL. She, uh. The poison effects plus us targeting them and the clip they got of me saying we'd have to hope they didn't have enough antidote to go around? I...

[ A blank moment. It feels like it happened weeks ago, not last night. ]

It was a rough fight.

...They fought you over it? [ Don't love that ]

It looks as if you've been patched up, at least. How bad?

No. [ Pretty much immediately. ] The status ailments fought me over it. The other two members of ZRAEL that I talked to were, like, mildly annoyed with me, mostly because of the state she was in, and one of them helped me... contain her.

[ He says it heavily, though not as heavily as he'll say it in another few days after she's confirmed all his worst fears and then some. ]

Venti fixed me up. [ A crooked smile. ] Pro tip: don't give anyone on ZRAEL a chance to get inside your head.

[ more advice would go here but like maybe saving it for the training thread ]

[ Mrr ]

A fight and your head got messed with.

Not that I don't trust you, but you're sure you're all right? That sounds like a lot.

[ haha, about that ] [ But Lupine just. pushes a hand through his hair, looking suddenly very tired. ]

Mind Crush and Nightmare Vision are dangerous in combat and they can knock our defenses out if we're not careful, that's all. They don't linger into the next day.

[ Not for the first time, though, Lupine's grateful he doesn't really remember his dreams unless there's BiT intervention. ]

[ Absolutely not concerning body language you have there ]

Good to know, but I more meant that having someone you consider a friend messing with your head might have a sting that lingers. Especially when it was our poison that made them act that way. [ Ours, not yours. ]

If you don't care to get into it, I understand. Just making sure you have a place to get into it if you happen to need one.

[ But that actually, visibly, relaxes him. His tail even quiets. ]

Oh. Nah, that part's fine.

[ Zari might feel like it was absolutely her deciding to attack him, but Lupine really, genuinely, does not. Nothing about morality-swapped!Zari even really registered to him as Zari. She might as well have been a stranger. ]

...But. Thanks.

Good. This place is enough of a trial without irreparable quarrels with friends on top of it.

[ He lifts a hand to give a wave at the thanks, in such a way that's less dismissive and more of an "of course, what am I here for?" ]

Despite all appearances, I'm actually a good listener. But I'm just as content to be a distraction if that's what's called for.

The production doesn't get to screw up my friendships.

[ He said, like eight days before a game with the potential to do exactly that. ]

—Do you not look like a good listener?

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