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Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

[there's no reply, but raven is sitting patiently in a chair in the lobby. there's a nasty-looking cut across his temple, with about half his face covered in blood. a haphazard bandage is slapped over it to staunch the bleeding.

raven himself mostly looks Very Tired]

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

[NOT! WHAT HE EXPECTED!]

Oh, seven hells. Can I help you with that?

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

I'd be... grateful if you did, yes.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

Good.

[closing the distance between them and reaching to unwrap those bandages]

May I ask what happened?

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

[lowers his head, obliging]

I... hit my head on a windshield.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

...What were you up to?

[unwrapping, unwrapping, and helpfully numbing him while he's at it.]

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

[closes his eyes while he does that, breathing out a sigh of relief. as injuries go it's not nearly as bad as it could have been, but it still hurt like hell]

Riding in a car. The driver was... going quite fast, and we had to turn around quickly. And... I wasn't wearing a seat belt.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

They are for your safety.

[softly, scolding, but he won't belabor the point.]

I am glad you were not hurt worse.

[starting to seal the wound.]

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

... thank you. I... appreciate it.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

Mm. You are welcome.

[finishes healing the wound, then uses the bandages to wipe up blood.]

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

[is he being fussed on...]

I can take care of the rest.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

[yes.]

Certainly you can.

[he agrees. but not stopping.]

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

[ah.]

... hm. Fine, then.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

[good. you get it. cleaning him up as best he can with limited clean cloth, then unnumbing him and patting his head gently.]

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

[patted '-']

I... suppose I should also thank you for intervening the other day.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

If you like. I almost feel I should apologize, for being so constantly entrenched in family matters.

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

If someone didn't speak up and do something, we'd all have killed each other twice over by now, I'm fairly certain.

[so, so dry]

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

...Then I shall hold back any urge to apologize!

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

Still, I... didn't expect him to react like that. Well, I thought he'd come after Vergil, sword swinging, but somehow...

[trails off]

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

It was different than you anticipated?

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

... yes.

[spoken kind of quietly, pensively]

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

Are you worried for yourself?

[softly.]

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

I'm not worried Dante is going to turn on me, no. I...

[runs a hand over his hair]

You know what I am in relation to Vergil, don't you? You were present when Dante told me.

Re: Day 239

[crystallinelore]

I was, yes. 'Tis why I asked.

Are you concerned about what Vergil is like, for Dante to react like that?

Re: Day 239

[selfpreservationist]

Not so much him, as... me. Even if I am a separate person, I can't think of myself as being so different from him. His existence... is my existence. Strictly speaking, we shouldn't both be able to be here at the same time. I was only given consciousness because of the split. Meaning, there must be some version of me inside him right now.

[quietly, almost to himself]

... how can you look at someone and say you only love half of them? It isn't possible...