[ This is entirely rhetorical. In fact, if anything, it's more like it's nice to know he still has it in him to look sorrowful about something these days. ]
She died. Recently.
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I'm not even gonna provide any other metatext look. ]
[YOU REALLY FUCKING DID THIS DON'T JUST APP A WIDOW NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well.
Lucas doesn't seem all that surprised, though there's something soft and a little mournful in its own way in his expression in return. It's not like he knew her, but he knows what loss is like. He's felt it, and he's seen deeper versions of it destroy people.]
...I'm sorry. [Words that always come up short. But also what the hell man really had to go from being recently widowed to being a cult sacrifice.] She seems even from that short glimpse like a very lovely person.
I am sorry to intrude, even so. [Even if it's not his fault really, it still feels bad man.] And sorry that you weren't given the time or space to process.
I wouldn't say kidnapped exactly by the traditional definition. But I do guess our train stopped and we were stranded there, so it's just splitting hairs at that point.
[MY GOD. But also imagine scawwy is just the ending that awaited after Termina all along.]
Ah... [AS BRITT EXPLODES ON TUESDAY IN THE BG.] ...Well. I'm-- not at all glad that you've just ended up in another, slightly better situation, but... I'm glad you at least got out of the first.
[NOT THE EMBIGGENING. ALSO I FORGOT ABOUT THE RETURN MEMSHARE HELP ME JUST DIVING INTO EVERYONE ELSE'S MEMS LIKE HAHA YAY! YAY!! what between sibling trauma and dying young trauma sounds more in ur wheelhouse]
Better than being dead, yes... [Glancing around. Frowning.] Though I could do without the bells and whistles.
[ Oh this is a very good mem. It invokes a different kind of response from Daan compared to other things he's seen so far, a distinct hesitation and furrow of his brows as he glances aside as Lucas is rejected -- doctor after doctor after doctor.
Who decides that kind of thing? What kind of doctor just gets to decide that someone should die because -- what. The patient isn't good enough for them? Daan doesn't purport himself to be any sort of guardian angel. Hell, he outright pushes back sometimes when someone tells him that's what he does, right? Because that's what doctors are supposed to do. And then he'd fire back that he doesn't have to do anything, because he's not bound by the Oath.
[slaps his noggin you can fit so much varying forms of doctor related trauma in this bad boy
Who indeed, though! Who indeed. A whole island nation full of doctors who just see a problem they don't want to deal with and think, who cares? Such is the grave danger of effective immortality, twisted and abused by the people who don't create and work with it every day.
Lucas, to his credit, just offers a small smile that doesn't speak to the hellish despair of being turned down turn after turn.]
That person ran the hospital that has cared for Nadia for the last eight years. She's well, now.
It's rough out there, doctors who think they're too good for some people... I've dealt with my fair share of people who came to me because of one reason for another, but related to not being able to go to a regular doctor...
[HONESTLY DIRE!! If only the similarities of all their different homes weren't generally horrible ones. But he's not a world-nihilist either, and moves on with an easy nod.]
God saved Nadia. That's a miracle I can't ever forget or fully repay, either.
[ Daan disagrees with the sentiment, mostly, but he's not so much of a hardass that he'd dunk on someone else's faith. After all, the Church of Alll-mer is quite vast and the norm, and Daan's case is a bit of an atypical one. ]
I'm glad you were witness to a good miracle. I hope both you and she live healthy the remainder of your lives.
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[ This is entirely rhetorical. In fact, if anything, it's more like it's nice to know he still has it in him to look sorrowful about something these days. ]
She died. Recently.
[ lol
I'm not even gonna provide any other metatext look. ]
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Well.
Lucas doesn't seem all that surprised, though there's something soft and a little mournful in its own way in his expression in return. It's not like he knew her, but he knows what loss is like. He's felt it, and he's seen deeper versions of it destroy people.]
...I'm sorry. [Words that always come up short. But also what the hell man really had to go from being recently widowed to being a cult sacrifice.] She seems even from that short glimpse like a very lovely person.
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Yeah. She was.
...I obviously don't need to tell you it wasn't your fault or anything like that, but. You know.
The usual waving aside of condolences and the like.
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I am sorry to intrude, even so. [Even if it's not his fault really, it still feels bad man.] And sorry that you weren't given the time or space to process.
[ON ACCOUNT OF BEING FUCKING CULTNAPPED.]
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Headed straight off somewhere that ended up being just like this place, before I came here.
...
And then, you know. I'm also here for real.
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Were you kidnapped by a cult to that one, too?
[The way this could sound facetious but it's truly genuine...]
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Taken out of one awful situation and dropped into another... Had you been able to make any headway in figuring out things over there?
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[ He has to... really think about... this... and try to figure out how to explain or break the news to Lucas... ]
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The moon was rising on the third evening at the time...
I don't really know what was going to happen next. If I hadn't been transported here instead.
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[WELL. THIS IS FINE. Three days versus the start of their third week and practically nothing to show for it but this is fine.]
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Well. The limit we were given for the end of Termina was three days.
Here, it's what. Two months?
Sure, you can die any time, but I'm already living a lot longer than I thought I had left.
[ Soooo. Yippee. ]
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Ah... [AS BRITT EXPLODES ON TUESDAY IN THE BG.] ...Well. I'm-- not at all glad that you've just ended up in another, slightly better situation, but... I'm glad you at least got out of the first.
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...Yeah, well... better than being dead, right?
It's not great here, but it's not exactly worse. So I'll take what I can get.
[ Feel free to memshare me back IF YOU WANT. I am ok with spoilers and any cws as long as they don't get like overly existential or something. ]
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Better than being dead, yes... [Glancing around. Frowning.] Though I could do without the bells and whistles.
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Apparently, beggars can't be choosers.
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ANYWAY SPEAKING OF HOW beggars can't be choosers!!]
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Who decides that kind of thing? What kind of doctor just gets to decide that someone should die because -- what. The patient isn't good enough for them? Daan doesn't purport himself to be any sort of guardian angel. Hell, he outright pushes back sometimes when someone tells him that's what he does, right? Because that's what doctors are supposed to do. And then he'd fire back that he doesn't have to do anything, because he's not bound by the Oath.
But still. ]
Did that person...?
[ ...Save your sister? ]
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Who indeed, though! Who indeed. A whole island nation full of doctors who just see a problem they don't want to deal with and think, who cares? Such is the grave danger of effective immortality, twisted and abused by the people who don't create and work with it every day.
Lucas, to his credit, just offers a small smile that doesn't speak to the hellish despair of being turned down turn after turn.]
That person ran the hospital that has cared for Nadia for the last eight years. She's well, now.
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It's rough out there, doctors who think they're too good for some people... I've dealt with my fair share of people who came to me because of one reason for another, but related to not being able to go to a regular doctor...
Who was that man?
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[Why become a doctor at all if you clearly have no desire to help those in need? But he won't waste time pondering over it.]
He was the former Minister. [Just... The Minister™.] His successor, Doctor Capucine, has taken over since his passing, but... I owe him a great debt.
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[ Not that he's a world-nihilist or anything. Just something to ponder on, briefly. ]
Religion seems to play a pretty big role in your life.
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[HONESTLY DIRE!! If only the similarities of all their different homes weren't generally horrible ones. But he's not a world-nihilist either, and moves on with an easy nod.]
God saved Nadia. That's a miracle I can't ever forget or fully repay, either.
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[ Daan disagrees with the sentiment, mostly, but he's not so much of a hardass that he'd dunk on someone else's faith. After all, the Church of Alll-mer is quite vast and the norm, and Daan's case is a bit of an atypical one. ]
I'm glad you were witness to a good miracle. I hope both you and she live healthy the remainder of your lives.
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