ALL THE TEARS

[mechabro]

[ your character is now crying.

WHAT DO. ]

Comments

[servicewitha]

[--crap. pulling out tissue for him.]

Leto.

[goddamnemperor]

I can't touch them. It burns.

[servicewitha]

[well he will do that for him then]

[goddamnemperor]

Thank you.

[servicewitha]

Sure.

It looks like camp's getting to everybody.

[goddamnemperor]

[he sounds, for once, like he's actually fifteen. a sulky fifteen year old]

It's rare for me. And rather irritating. Fremen are not meant to cry at any occasion.

[servicewitha]

[smiles a little at that]

Well, I won't tell anyone if you won't.

[goddamnemperor]

I'll be sure not to recount this experience ever again.

[servicewitha]

There you go.

[goddamnemperor]

Hm. [touching his cheeks]

Fremen give moisture to the dead. And even then, it is a rare occurrence.

[servicewitha]

Give moisture to the dead?

[goddamnemperor]

Water is rare on Arrakis. Most Fremen are conditioned to save it. But you have a grief so deep, like a well, you are able to cry.

This is only the third time I've cried.

[servicewitha]

The conditioning is what makes it hurt?

[goddamnemperor]

... No. That was the skin. The Worm dislikes moisture. It makes him irritable.

[servicewitha]

Does anything else make him irritable?

[goddamnemperor]

Hmm. Enclosed spaces? I'm not entirely sure.