rav3n | [catchall] Anise

To be honest, I don't know how safe this is. I'm pretty sure we're only here for the night, but I don't want to take too many risks.

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Also he was dodging her on purpose but he obviously isn't going to tell her that now that he's been outed anyway]

... You're not going to disappear, are you?

[Waves hand vaguely... HE WILL BE GLITCHING BACK AND FORTH between Woboji and his actual appearance, which will also vary between HD and low-poly. It's fine.]

We can't stay, but I think we'll be fine while we're here.

Okay, well... while we have the time...!

[ she'll give him a vr hug. whether he's woboji or not ig ]

[IT IS AFFECTION WEEK... so even though he freezes briefly, after a moment, he hugs her back tightly. ANISEEEE]

[ hugging! ]

Man... You really gave everyone a scare, you know?

I know. [Well. He can guess, anyway.] I'm sorry.

... Were you really sick all along?

[The way he still absolutely hates talking about this... and Anise is one of the people he wants to lie to the most, but. It wouldn't be that hard for her to find out the truth in other ways, so... he will. Try.]

...I didn't think it would get that bad so quickly.

What was it?

Something that happened at home. [He finally pulls back, though he leaves his hands loosely on her shoulders for now.] You don't need to worry. It wasn't--it doesn't have anything to do with the others.

I know... We figured that much out after the fact.

I just don't get why you didn't say something sooner, stupid!

I talked to Io about it. [So at least he wasn't like. SUPER stupid.] I didn't think I'd need anything beyond that.

[ that... actually makes her feel a little better. if he did something to try to help himself. ]

... The stupid medbay didn't open until a few days later, too...

[ she's upset about that, too. ]

[HE DID TRY... he sure did...

But he smiles, a touch wry.]

Yeah. We were planning on looking into more then. [Personally he doesn't think it would've made much difference, but it was very much a case of I see nonetheless.]

But I'm not in pain here, I promise.

Okay...

[ it looks like she's accepting what happened.

and then she remembers something and looks up. ]

... Hey, um, did you and Dahut run into Arthur and Gregor at some point!?

Oh--yeah, we did. [A pause.] I mean, they only saw us face to face for a second. But Dahut and I saw them a little longer.

I knew it! It sounded like they went through some surreal stuff, and you guys helped them out?

Yeah. I'm not sure what they were doing before we found them, but Gregor was dreaming when I saw him. So I helped him wake up.

It's a good thing you were there!

It seems like we can't reach each other in the real world, but places like this VR world and that dreamlike place are different... Do you know how you got there?

[He shakes his head.]

No. I didn't even realize I was anywhere strange until I found Dahut. And even after that, it was like I barely remembered this place at all.

So you guys were affected by that, too? Whatever, like, messes with people's heads sometimes when they end up in places like that...

Yeah. We weren't quite ourselves afterwards, either--that's the same for your groups too, right?

Yeah... some people come out of it, and it's almost like they're sleep-talking with some of the weird things they end up saying.

Yeah... I've seen some of it. [ZONK-ZONKS AND GOOPERS... OR WHATEVER IT WAS] Did the senior crew ever come up with an explanation for why that happens?

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