[ oooogh he doesn't like this. lu bixing can put together dots, and it is too familiar to an old infection that spread through a galaxy and decimated it once for him to sit comfortably with that, but.
he doesn't show it much beyond the way he bites the inside of his cheek before he talks again, returning to fixing up the cane. ]
... Well... I'll make sure to treat it, but... let's just make sure we keep an eye on it, okay? [ this is gently, calm. ] It's likely just an infection, but, if it's anything worse than that, we want to make sure we catch onto it quickly.
[Tells or not, it's not all that difficult to guess. The toothpick is shaping itself nicely, at least. It goes faster with two people working on it, for sure.]
...If there's something we need to treat it, something we don't have. Do you suppose the demons would bargain for it?
[ he'll just tell thancred honestly, quiet. ] He said that when they were there, they were all immune to a sickness that spread from it, but... now, he's showing symptoms of having whatever degradation or infection that came from it. I don't know what the treatment would be, but - I also don't know. People have come back acting strangely from these trips.
[ harrow, your brain ] So... I told him I'd just like to keep an eye on his condition for the next 24 hours or so. Just to make sure it gets better, instead of worse.
Don't - don't take it as doomsday, though. It's more precaution than anything, I promise.
[His hands still a minute, hung up on the description. The words degradation, infection. How there hadn't been a rash, until he'd fallen off the boat and one started to spread.]
Would you tell me if it wasn't?
[Because that's always a pertinent and damning question, isn't it. And, well. It's not that he assumes Ryn would do this, but he's also not above it.]
If he told you to hide things about his condition from me, would you?
I would. [ to the first. and to the second: ] And I wouldn't.
[ ... ]
Lin has done that to me enough times. [ and monoeye hawk, too, really. left him in the dark. kept a secret from him for years. lin, too - hiding his injuries, brushing them off like nothing matters. ] I know how it feels to be kept in the dark because someone thinks that it's for your own good.
[Not that he's one to talk about hiding injuries, himself. Or about making choices ostensibly for someone's own good, that actually winds up being against their interest and to their detriment both.
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he doesn't show it much beyond the way he bites the inside of his cheek before he talks again, returning to fixing up the cane. ]
... Well... I'll make sure to treat it, but... let's just make sure we keep an eye on it, okay? [ this is gently, calm. ] It's likely just an infection, but, if it's anything worse than that, we want to make sure we catch onto it quickly.
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[Tells or not, it's not all that difficult to guess. The toothpick is shaping itself nicely, at least. It goes faster with two people working on it, for sure.]
...If there's something we need to treat it, something we don't have. Do you suppose the demons would bargain for it?
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[ he'll just tell thancred honestly, quiet. ] He said that when they were there, they were all immune to a sickness that spread from it, but... now, he's showing symptoms of having whatever degradation or infection that came from it. I don't know what the treatment would be, but - I also don't know. People have come back acting strangely from these trips.
[ harrow, your brain ] So... I told him I'd just like to keep an eye on his condition for the next 24 hours or so. Just to make sure it gets better, instead of worse.
Don't - don't take it as doomsday, though. It's more precaution than anything, I promise.
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Would you tell me if it wasn't?
[Because that's always a pertinent and damning question, isn't it. And, well. It's not that he assumes Ryn would do this, but he's also not above it.]
If he told you to hide things about his condition from me, would you?
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[ ... ]
Lin has done that to me enough times. [ and monoeye hawk, too, really. left him in the dark. kept a secret from him for years. lin, too - hiding his injuries, brushing them off like nothing matters. ] I know how it feels to be kept in the dark because someone thinks that it's for your own good.
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[Not that he's one to talk about hiding injuries, himself. Or about making choices ostensibly for someone's own good, that actually winds up being against their interest and to their detriment both.
He lets out a slow breath.]
Is there. Anything I ought to be doing?