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[lucentia]

HELLO

"Greetings."

GOODBYE

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[voring]

[Fortunately he is not so insane in that particular flavor of insanity that he'd kill someone out of revenge for killing a fake Tokinaga but it is not an unwise idea to just leave it like this.]

So all three of them died in the end. Kind of sounds like what these places are like in general? Making choices that aren't really choices and everything leading to whatever's the worst outcome.

[lucentia]

... Perhaps. If there was ever any way to save them, we didn't find it. Even we remained infected to the end.

[voring]

[GLANCING.]

You aren't infected anymore, right?

[lucentia]

[he pauses, thinking about this.]

I don't have any sort of blade on me. Are you able to make a small cut on my person?

[voring]

[His head tilts a little.]

Yeah, I can. Where?

[JUST DOESN'T ASK QUESTIONS.]

[lucentia]

[:')]

My hand is fine. Somewhere that'll bleed, but not inconvenience me.

[voring]

Like here?

[Taps the heel of his palm opposite the thumb so there's not a lot of risk of the skin stretching with all the fingie movements people typically do. If he's given the greenlight, his fingie just becomes sharp and stabby and he can use the tip of that to leave a lil cut.]

[lucentia]

Yes, that works.

[but wahoo cut. it bleeds normal blood, which lucien looks at.]

... I should be fine. When I was infected, there was a black substance mixed in with my blood.

[voring]

[NORMAL BLOOD WAHOO.]

Oh. Was that the infection? The black stuff?

[lucentia]

It was a symptom of it. To be honest, it wasn't clear what exactly what was going on, but the townspeople claimed to... be the substance?

[voring]

[What the hell is going on in yalls neck of the insane ass woods out there hello.]

...? So people were in your veins?

[lucentia]

To be honest, I'm not sure at all. But probably something like that, given the hivemind nature of the people.

[voring]

I've never seen anything like that before.

[A hivemind... Sounds fuckin wild.]

You were part of it, then? What'd it want?

[lucentia]

While I was hearing voices, I'm still not clear on what end goal they were driving me towards. Hien, however, seemed to have an obsession with the water, although I don't know if it was the same infection or something else.

[voring]

[What the hell yall.]

Huh. Well, no voices and no weird blood now, at least. Just the stuff missing from the river? Nothing else?

[lucentia]

Nothing else that I'm aware of.

[voring]

[Nodding, nodding...]

I've heard different things from different people. It's not as bad when you go in without dying, right?

[lucentia]

I'd rather not use it regardless, but yes, I didn't notice any additional complications or feel that I had lost progress.

[voring]

That's good, that's good.

[Also good because he can now be a little less concerned something like that may have happened to Tokinaga.]

So you're just dizzy, mostly?

[lucentia]

[using lucien because you know tokinaga wouldn't tell you shit...]

That and feeling oddly weak, I suppose. Perhaps I have a fever coming on...

[voring]

[Maybe so... Maybe so.......]

Fever? Maybe you just got sick from being in the cold.

[lucentia]

... No. This is something I'm used to.

[voring]

Falling into rivers and getting fevers about it?

[lucentia]

[okay the last time he fell into a body of water pre-cyoa was because he deliberately jumped thank you very much]

I don't normally fall into rivers.

[voring]

[IS DELIBERATELY JUMPING INTO RIVERS REALLY ANY BETTER.]

Jumping or being thrown into rivers and getting fevers about it.