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Re: day 426? prior to fans peacing out

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[ —But to his own dim surprise, Lupine isn't actually panicking. He makes a controlled landing on the grass nearby, goes down into a crouch next to Kit, and immediately puts pressure on the wound. Will also be tearing a strip off the bottom of his shirt, balling it up real tight, and then wrapping it around... the knife, technically, so that it'll start absorbing blood. ]

Kit. Hey. [ Low, but firm. ] Stay with me.

[ Through the Looking-Glass might be able to do something about the pain, maybe, but he's as worried it'd just make it easier for Kit to pass out. ]

Re: day 426? prior to fans peacing out

[ends]

[ the good news, the fans seem excited by the presence of someone else. is that good news? well, it's certainly good for them.

the strange news, the knife is healed in. a sIV heal, naturally. in the heat of it, he'd managed to think about the implications of leaving it as is to bleed freely, and what it'd mean to remove a the seal of the knife.

he remembers to take a breath, holding a hand up. his other shoulder is... not quite right, and sporting a long, uneven scar along the circumference of it, with blood spatters to match. ]

Re: day 426? prior to fans peacing out

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[ —well, can you really blame Lupine for not immediately noticing the blood isn't fresh? ]

...what did you do to yourself.

[ Softly. This is Zari all over again, he can't just fan-service his way out of this. ]

Re: day 426? prior to fans peacing out

[ends]

[ having the surname 'Otonashi' is a curse? ]

Can't tell anyone-

[ ominous? perhaps. and there he goes, doing the thing where he almost seems to forget how to breathe or do anything, to the delight of some of his fans. ]

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[ gdi kit ] [ Okay. Okay. So. Not bleeding currently. Just... has a knife in his chest. And doesn't want anyone to know about it, which sounds like so many different kinds of bullshit, but what he's seen of Kit so far tells him— ]

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Re: day 426? prior to fans peacing out

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Do I look like a snitch to you?

[ If he rats Kit out now, Kit just won't ever call on him for help again. ]

changes course a bit later oops

[ends]

[ it's... delayed, he's tired enough to be tempted to sleep rather than attempt to undo this anymore. but he does laugh weakly at the absurdity of it,

and he gestures at the fans, getting a fanfare of cheers loud enough to nearly drown out Kitsu's voice entirely. ]

... Don't want SensitIV to find out about what happened.

[ "I got it on VIDEO, so worth it!!"

"Do you think the LiliS is going to kill and die with the sIV?!" ]

Please. [ quietly, desperate. ]

Re: changes course a bit later oops

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...I'll keep it to myself.

[ But maaaaan. ]

What can I do for you, then, if you don't want anyone to know? [ Beat. He knows they heal faster here... ] Do you want me to just get you back to the hotel?

[ends]

[ he has to think for quite a while, the very, very faint scent of alcohol still on his breath along with everything else going on. (comforting, surely.) ]

Your offer to help me off a building, is it... still good?

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[ His grip on you might've tightened a little. Lupine forces himself to relax. ]

...Yeah, Kit. It's still good.

[ends]

[ oh. he felt that.

so isn't it natural for him to reach up, offering a high five? ]

... Let's do it, okay?

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[ ... ]

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[ Gives Kit that high-five, then gets an arm under his legs and the other around his shoulder, under his arms. Standing, slowly only because he wants to be careful with Kit. ]

We can make this quick.

[ Nightingale, hopping lightly onto the appropriate leaf, and starting up. ]

[ends]

[ the motion of another understanding a high five isn't new anymore, but even like this, miserable as he's sure he must look - he smiles anyway. ]

Thanks. For not being angry.

[ not that he wouldn't get it, had anger been the initial response. but he finds, as they start to move, that even this sentiment hadn't captured everything he meant to express. ]

... Thanks for coming.

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Yeah? You got any other stupid things you wanna thank me for while you're at it?

[ Breezy. ] [ They're one story, two stories, three stories up now. ]

[ends]

[ he opens his mouth to speak; it'd be so easy to flippantly say,

"Not asking if I'd rather just die instead."

...

but he has just enough clarity to think better of that in particular, based on a memory he'd witnessed back in those mindscapes.

"Kill me," the girl had said. Lupine deserves more kindness than that, so he instead merely lets his head drop against Lupine, laughing breathlessly. ]

Heh... The full service lift.

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[ Yeah, that might not go over super well? Hard to say. ] [ Lupine snorts, but his eyes shut for a beat before he refocuses, determinedly, on the hotel; getting back to and reaching the top of it. ]

People around here, I swear.

[ends]

Yeah... I know. Hardly worth the trouble sometimes.

[ resting a hand on the knife still just hanging out of his chest, Kitsu grants himself the allowance to close his eyes and rest another minute.

keep going, he reminds himself.

keep going.

keep.

going.

he cannot allow his own breathing to falter. ]

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Didn't say that, and I'll thank you not to character-assassinate me while I'm carrying you.

[ Man, if he knew more about sIV powers. ]

...You're still with me, right?

[ 'Healed' or not, he's not sure about sleeping like this... ]

[ends]

[ if this is about the "sleeping and eating heals," there is one sIV who intentionally refuses that power. can you guess which one? ]

And I didn't mean that.

[ delayed, but here. ]

Ah... there's another one. [ he almost doesn't want to open his eyes again, but he manages to long enough to add something else: ]

Thanks for worrying about me ... even when it ends up like this.

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[ He still hasn't looked too deeply into sIV's powers. He didn't want to make sIVs targets in games even before he got to watch Izzy rip open Hades's wounds and remake his hand into something less functional. And besides— ]

You're right, that's definitely another one. [ As in, another stupid thing to thank him for. ] People who give a damn about you are going to worry sometimes.

[ ...He was way more self-conscious the first time he said something along those lines to Tea. Heh, he might be more adjusted now to the idea of giving a damn about the people here in general. But Kit absolutely ranks. ]

[ends]

[ from behind a small curtain of hair mercifully blocking out the dimming light, Kitsu merely looks up toward Lupine as if looking through a distant fog, a soft melancholy reaching his eyes. ]

Not always.

[ his voice remains low, soft, and - almost guilty. ]

Not when places and states exist where you can care about someone and still not even blink if they die in front of you.

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[ ... ]

I mean. Sure. Sometimes you're too numb to feel much of anything.

[ Pause. ]

But that's a you problem. It doesn't say squat about the people you care about.