[some point after the Temporals get healed up, Allen eventually finds his way back indoors and to the dining room. the only thing is... he mostly seems to just be staring at the food that's put in front of him.
he's at least taken off the white lab coat, but there's signs of the healed wounds on his arms--clearly punctures and scratches from something like many pieces of glass shards--seeping blood slowly. he doesn't seem to notice, instead just kind of nudging a finger at Rowan in her squirrel form as she slowly stuffs her cheeks in his stead.]
[ despite everything, Kotetsu knows a guy's gotta eat and he plans to bring some food to his companion. but he pauses in his trip when he sees Allen and walks slowly over to him. ]
Mind if I sit and talk with you for a bit?
[ Finley is in her tiger form, trailing close behind Kotetsu. ]
[ e casually looks at Finley who is pressed pretty close to him, luckily not shifting back to rabbit form for the time being.
but he won't press. They've been on this topic before. he understands what grieving means to him. what he does do is lightly pat Allen on the arm. making sure not to get too close to the daemon. ]
If you want to talk about anything, I am able to listen.
... the hellish thing about it was there was very little we could have actually have done to change anything about what happened.
I don't know what all those two went through when we got separated, but even fighting back didn't accomplish much. Even letting those kids out of the cages didn't change much--they just ended up killed or put back into them by the end.
But y'know... we did manage to at least... save someone. Change something, at the end of it. So that's why... it's not fine, but... I'm fine. I'll be fine.
There was one child I managed to get out of the cages who didn't end up back in them--at least, not on the "adventure". He was looking for his twin brother who'd been experimented on. A successful experiment, even. No daemon and somehow barely surviving.
After Miss Rika--after what happened then, that child found us and we were able to free his brother. Then a few other children ended up with us and we managed to escape.
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he's at least taken off the white lab coat, but there's signs of the healed wounds on his arms--clearly punctures and scratches from something like many pieces of glass shards--seeping blood slowly. he doesn't seem to notice, instead just kind of nudging a finger at Rowan in her squirrel form as she slowly stuffs her cheeks in his stead.]
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Mind if I sit and talk with you for a bit?
[ Finley is in her tiger form, trailing close behind Kotetsu. ]
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If you'd like...?
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I hear about some of what happened.... from Sholmes. I wanted to see how you were doing.
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Ah... I'm... not a stranger to any of it, really. Maybe that specific experiment but...
[none of it was shocking except that he was helpless to stop moooost of it.]
Rowan's still recovering a bit, I think. The guards' daemons were pretty brutal.
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[ e casually looks at Finley who is pressed pretty close to him, luckily not shifting back to rabbit form for the time being.
but he won't press. They've been on this topic before. he understands what grieving means to him. what he does do is lightly pat Allen on the arm. making sure not to get too close to the daemon. ]
If you want to talk about anything, I am able to listen.
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Yoo Joonghyuk-ssi, too, I think.
I didn't actually... know Miss Rika very well.
[but they seemed to and also, the earlier incident...]
My injuries were physical, mostly. And that even got healed right away when we got back.
[though the expression on his face probably gives away that he thinks it would have been better if that healing had been used on the Temporals.]
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I don't know what all those two went through when we got separated, but even fighting back didn't accomplish much. Even letting those kids out of the cages didn't change much--they just ended up killed or put back into them by the end.
But y'know... we did manage to at least... save someone. Change something, at the end of it. So that's why... it's not fine, but... I'm fine. I'll be fine.
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[ he hadn't heard that part... he's curious. ]
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After Miss Rika--after what happened then, that child found us and we were able to free his brother. Then a few other children ended up with us and we managed to escape.
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[y'know. while blaming self for what happened to Rika.]
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Do what you need to keep carrying yourself through it.
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[from that one memory of his]
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