Charonquest

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Lily
WHERE: Lily Barn
WHEN: Early Day 36, post ritual!

[alright nerds lets go get your emotional support shepherd]

Comments

Re: after

[ohlord]

[hooooveriiiing because letting others get in their fusses while he tries to get his brain around the feelings and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa about yet another emotional whiplash.]

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[ok but does he get in grabbing distance at any point]

Re: after

[ohlord]

[if charon's reaching, he'll shift over to be in distance, yeah.]

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[he gets a hold of Styx's wrist or something and just. holds onto it. he doesn't necessarily need a conversation right now but he really, really needs the contact]

Re: after

[ohlord]

[oh, look, you're finally speaking his language.

which means he's adjusting the grip on him so hands can be held or clutched onto. more comfy than wrist. it's fine. this is fine.]

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[okay. okay. okay. okay yeah he's getting a deathgrip on his hand. sorry if you felt you needed that for anything else ever again]

Re: after

[ohlord]

[it's fine. that hand's probably been crushed or stabbed or shot up a bunch of times. a little deathgrip is fine.]

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[finally, after things have calmed down a little more]

...we should go home.

Re: after

[ohlord]

Not too far from the barn. Take it easy.

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[with a sideglance at the still-nearby mist]

As long as it is not here.

Re: after

[ohlord]

Nah, not here.

[anyway, probably doesn't need the help up since so many already helping, but y'know. he's still here.]

Heard there was another place that got free of the mists but haven't had time to check.

Re: after

[endsjustified]

I...heard Blossom? The...whatever it is, will stay intact.

[shakes his head wearily; he's able to stand when someone helps him up, but he's not totally physically with it, needing a bit of support to walk back]

The ram demon took me without her consent.

Re: after

[ohlord]

Yeah, "unwilling sacrifice"....

[pauses...]

Think about that later. Focus on one foot in front of the other.

Re: after

[endsjustified]

Still trying to ease my mind, Styx?

[even if he's accepting someone else's support, he hasn't let Styx's hand go.]

Re: after

[ohlord]

Yer mind need easin'?

[don't point it out...]

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[very faintly grudgingly, even now]

Sometimes.

Re: after

[ohlord]

... what'll ease it?

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[he glances away a moment, uncomfortable with asking, but he does answer.]

Don't leave. At least--not right now.

Re: after

[ohlord]

[... damn.

sighs.]

Not gonna go anywhere. Nowhere else to go right now, anyway.

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[he knows Styx would rather stay with Minuet that's why he hated asking. presses his mouth together in a thin tight line for a second before responding again]

...thanks.

Re: after

[ohlord]

[please consider how Styx is nnnnot actually looking at Minuet just now]

Sure.

Re: after

[endsjustified]

[okay yeah we can say that just registered in his tired mind actually]

What's wrong.

Re: after

[ohlord]

[moment to consider saying nothing except sure was hit in the psychic face about Charon's hate for being the one in the vulnerable position, so.]

Been wonderin' since I woke up here why Minuet's hair was completely black.

Found out why and how yesterday. Didn't handle it well, still not handlin' it well.

Re: after

[endsjustified]

...

[does he have the energy to panic any more about something that is not at all about him except in the most tangential sense

no

thank god]

I have asked him to consider fixing the situation, while we are dealing in impossibilities here.

Re: after

[ohlord]

Right, 'cause askin's gonna get anywhere.

It's not the main issue, anyway. I'll deal with it later.