[Week 2] Late late late evening 321

[breakaleginhalf]

[The voice that chimes in on the network is tired, and aching, and a whole host of other things Gil is very obviously holding back only tenuously.]

Someone needs... can someone go check on Matthew. Please. Liminal Space. He's...

[A long silence.]

...I dunno if he's-- he's not cavosophia. He's not. [It almost sounds more like he's reassuring himself.] But I-- ...Ghalib hurt him.

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[capital_asset]

It's been going as well as can be expected. Almas is closer to IOUHEI 1.5 than he is 1.0.

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[breakaleginhalf]

Small mercies, then.

...oh shit, he knows you're there?

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[capital_asset]

It turns out that Cleritors are a bit sensitive to that kind of thing.

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[breakaleginhalf]

Huh. Same as Char-- Thorne. Same as Thorne. She's. A cleritor too.

...she's going to be so upset.

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[capital_asset]

I've heard a bit about her overlay. I didn't know she was a Cleritor as well.

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[breakaleginhalf]

Our... her mum was. Ghalib's was a Magnator too. Dad was a Factor.

Ghalib's mum and grandfather... really hammered all this into him hard.

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[capital_asset]

That... doesn't surprise me. That they pushed the beliefs they did.

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[breakaleginhalf]

They weren't bad people, like as such. Just.

[And, very abruptly, Gil is suddenly alert, his attention shifting sharply elsewhere.

--wait, two secs.

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[capital_asset]

Gil? What is it?

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[breakaleginhalf]

[There's no response immediately - Gil can't mute the network, so he's actively ignoring it.

Which means the only indication something is happening is a sudden sense of distant, amplified fear through the True Bond with Raidou - and then a Tell that Almas and Raidou both receive, along with most of Fallenheart.

Shortly after, their Bond goes slack.]

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[Raidou knows what that slackness means.

There are times when he wishes he could be as open, as loud with his grief and pain as other people here can. But he can't. He's had too many years of people not wanting to hear him, and now he can't even bring himself to rage and cry over someone who does. And he knows it's temporary, knows Gil will be back in a few days' time, but that doesn't make it hurt any less.

In Fallenheart, he drops to his knees, silent and stunned.]