heaven / jiaoqiu

[midway]

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[midway]

[ lmkghhf he just has a crunchy arm

He blinks slowly, not entirely focused. ]

We lost the General. I think we'll have to kill her.

[fried]

[ oh well thank you for this

a... long pause. ]

The General? [ thinly. ]

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[ HEHE ]

Yae Miko won't talk, but the soldiers aren't idiots. We all saw her.

We know what it looks like to be infected.

[fried]

[

screeeeeeeeeeeeeee ]

Yae Miko... [ who the fuck is that IT DOESN'T MATTER. a beat. ] Do you mean General Feixiao?

[midway]

[ YEA... WHO IS THAT ]

Who else?

[fried]

[ his ears press back against his skull. ]

You met her, somehow. [ ... ] And you say she was infected. With what, do you think?

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[ Blinking slowly. ]

Moon rage...

[fried]

[ nightmarish. i did not even think about how well this would go with my canon point when i planned this. anyway. ]

...

[ his fingers curl into the bed for a moment, and then he just. smiles. ]

I see. Well, with your injuries for now, you won't need to worry about any of that. How are you feeling? How's the pain?

[midway]

[ HELP. FLURRY.

Well, he's too out of it to notice Jiaoqiu's torment right now, but maybe it will come back to him later.

For now: ] Pretty terrible.

[fried]

[ eh, it's fine. for now, he has a patient to tend to. ]

That doesn't surprise me. Do you remember what attacked you? That may help me treat this better.

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[ Oh, looks mildly dazed. His memories aren't in order. ]

Hoolay. He was going to kill Ringo.

[fried]

[ a but like it's reverb and bass boosted ]

Hoolay?

[ ... ]

You... I don't understand.

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[ He also doesn't understand, and he's looking kind of confused. ]

I've never seen a Borisin in Fódlan... How'd I make an enemy of that guy anyway?

[fried]

... You didn't. I did, in a sense.

But I don't understand why you would have experienced the way I died. [ he rubs at his face. ] I'll need to do another examination to make sure you're not affected by Lupitoxin. You shouldn't be able to experience it, but you also should not have been able to contract mara.

[midway]

[ ...? ]

Hoolay killed you?

[fried]

He did. His face and the sky behind it is the last thing I remember seeing.

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... I see.

So we lived your memories. Somehow.

[fried]

It seems so. I'll need to ask the angels how.

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... I guess it must be pretty horrific for you, huh?

For a bunch of strangers to walk through your most painful memories.

[ sowwy 🥺 ]

[fried]

[ his ear flicks, but. ]

I'm more upset for you than I am me. You don't deserve someone's memories on top of your own life experiences.

[midway]

It is a little weird, to have this wealth of memories, feeling like they're mine but... at the same time not.

[ Looking out. ]

A lot of them feel very familiar, I have to say. War is exhausting no matter what.