heaven / adolphe

[midway]

Comments

week 5, friday

[midway]

[ Welp.

Claude is just walking around. It's a little weird being on this side when those announcements go out. He will pause when he sees Adolphe though, and peering at him to gauge vibes. ]

[chrysanths]

[ Adolphe is... having mixed feelings, but it's not as rancid as his emotional episode before when he actually murdered someone. Yippee! (This is public knowledge on graveyard chipper)

He spots Claude looking at him. ]

... Hey.

[ Surprisingly normal and not lashing out. ]

[midway]

Hey Adolphe.

[ That awkward moment when you know someone might be going through it but you're not close. ]

... How're you taking the news?

[chrysanths]

[ Adolphe felt the same when Claude was here, which was why he saw his arrival from a distance... it's fine... he gets it. ]

I should be asking you. Weren't you two close?

[midway]

Yeah, I suppose so.

[ Pursing his lips a moment. ]

Even if it's not the end, dying isn't a pleasant experience. I hate that any of them went through it.

[chrysanths]

[ Hm? Adolphe notes Claude's reaction. What's that mean... ]

... As long as they weren't horribly maimed.

[ His standard is on the floor. ]

I thought your reaction would have been stronger, since Yves considered you to be a close friend.

[midway]

[ OKAY why are virches so chill with violence

He gives Adolphe a puzzled look. ]

Do you want me to have a breakdown in front of you?

[chrysanths]

[ Please consider loss week and that's exactly the thing keeping Adolphe not breaking down right now. ]

No.

[ He doesn't look like he wants that. ]

I just thought you'd have more to say.

[midway]

[ Claude also doesn't want that, but he also looks like he isn't sure what Adolphe wants. ]

I'm frustrated. [ But his tone is measured. ] I'm not sure what exactly you expected me to say.

[chrysanths]

... I wasn't sure what I expected either.

[ He'll admit that. ]

Will you at least see them when they arrive? They'll be coming in the same place you did.

[ Adolphe has a handful of letters in his hands because he was on his way from getting them out of the mailbox. ]

[midway]

Of course I will. Why wouldn't I?

[ Does Adolphe think he's heartless... ]

It normally takes a day for them to arrive, right?

[chrysanths]

[ No... even after he killed without an affliction. Heartless would take a different set of actions. ]

Usually Saturday or Sunday. The pattern has been victims coming in on Saturday and whoever dies in execution comes on Sunday. There was a slight delay in the first batch though.

[ aka out tutorials

He looks at the letters in his own hands for a bit. ]

It feels surreal to receive letters from people who'll be here soon.

[midway]

[ Glancing briefly at the letters. ]

Are you looking forward to seeing them again?

week 6, thursday, health centre

[midway]

[ Well.

Okay. He's visiting Adolphe... Peeking in. ]

Hey. You up for a visitor?

[chrysanths]

[ Adolphe is pretty much trapped at the Health Center right now, in one of the five beds that are there. He's bandaged up, but he's still cold to the touch as if he's a corpse, but no it's just being dunked into a winter ocean full of ice. His eyes are no longer full of blood, one of them has a gauze over it to heal the partial damage, he's on painkillers... he's being a good patient and not moving! Yippee!

His good eye looks over at Claude, slowly blinking. Yeah, he's up for it. ]

[midway]

[ THE WAY I DIDN'T ACTUALLY READ THE TL SO I'M JUST LIKE

I SEE

EYE BLOOD

Claude grimaces. ]

Do you know where you are?

[chrysanths]

[ Yeah! Great aesthetics, by the way. But out of sight, out of mind. He looks mostly fine apart from all the bandages and gauzes. He gives a short nod in response to the question.

There's a hologram image that appears. There's a baby with bright blue eyes. The mother is dead, looking like she fell down from the top of stairs and accidentally stabbed herself with the knife when she fell. The maid looks disgusted at the baby. ]

[midway]

[ OKAY

GREAT ]

... Can you speak?

[chrysanths]

[ Coughed too much. Throat hurts.

Yeah. ]

[midway]

I guess we're lucky for this effect...

Who's this baby?

[chrysanths]

[ He half shrugs. Adolphe doesn't know, but the group was so endeared by it and wanted to protect it to racism.

We were supposed to kill it, but we didn't know it was a baby until we saw it with our own eyes at the top of the castle. ]

[midway]

[ Oh.

Understanding hits and he just nods. ]

Okay. I think I get it. [ Bummer. ] Well, I can see you're physically on death's door...

But your head's clear?

[chrysanths]

[ I should be fine s

Did you know when you're done hallucinating on an acid trip and on painkillers and returning from hours of cycle of pain and numbness, that exhausts you mentally? Surprise! Anyway, his thought gets cut off and he grimaces. ]

[midway]

[ A ]

Whoa, easy.

[ Getting up to look at the medical supplies. It doesn't specify how strong the painkillers are... Imagine if there was straight up morphine here.

Anyway, grabs what he thinks is most effective along with a cup of water to bring over. ]

Here. Sorry, I don't know how much it'll help. At least we seem to heal quicker on this side.

[ Man. They should've killed a healer to get some healing magic. ]

[chrysanths]

[ looks at hawke

Anyway. He just took too many because he thought they didn't work and now he's... well, not in pain for the most part. Adolphe moves his arm with the most minimum movement to take the water and drinks it. Kind of. His mouth is also partially covered due to the diagonal claw scratch on his face, so he can only drink from a small gap of the bandages. It's rough out here.

To the point that it's unreal. We even come back from dying so easily. ]