Research Note: Eight. (Video/Text/Action.)

[fonicdreamer]

...oh, Lorelei. What the hell--?!

['Sup, Paradise. Have one (1) horrified-looking scientist surveying his now-infamous lab as he pales, staring down at his now-normal hands and back at the laboratory. Needless to say, with it being full of bloody animal corpses, the copper stench of blood and the fizzling machinery it doesn't look like it's going

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[findafairytale]

[ she's standing in the doorway to the lab, a pained and possibly sick look on her face.

but she can't just not comfort Aster. she knocks on the doorframe a little. ]

Aster ...?

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[fonicdreamer]

[He visibly freezes, though he soon returns to his sorting through animal corpses, not once looking back at her. Perhaps out of guilt, or of fear, but the distance is there.]

...Estellise. Is there something you need of me?

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[findafairytale]

[ her expression softens. she frowns. ]

It .. looks more like you need something, Aster.

[ she walks over and wraps her arms around him from behind. ]

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[fonicdreamer]

[And Aster freezes, though he does relax a little as he realizes that it's just something htat he so needed right about now.]

...you didn't... see all that much, did you? I'm really hoping you didn't.

[willdateforyen]

You shouldn't apologize for problems that weren't your fault.

[fonicdreamer]

Even so, I still ended up inflicting all sorts of emotional harm on people.

I suppose I should be glad that it hadn't extended to actual physical harm; otherwise I doubt I could ever forgive myself.

[willdateforyen]

Aw, Aster. Don't worry so much, I'm sure they'll forgive you--and if they don't? Maybe they aren't the sort of people who should so easily be called friends.

[fonicdreamer]

...thank you, Ai. That's... kind of what I needed to hear from you.

lol, it's fine. Feel free to have him cheer Aster up in his own way?

[fonicdreamer]

Nothing, I just turned into some kind of horror freak scientist over the last few days and seriously regretting it.

[Why yes, even Aster can snark about things. omai.]

u can haz gewd engrish?

[fonicdreamer]

Exactly like that, though we have them in books more than feeds...

I suppose I should be glad that I limited myself to animals and not, say, trying to make people into cyborgs or develop some kind of killer virus that makes people zombies or something.

[Feel free to brick the mun for slipping in that Resident Evil joke there.]

[cursed_analysis]

Oh, you're done with the experiments already...

That's a pity, I had thought about it in my spare time and was quite certain I had come up with a solution to your conundrum concerning some of the finer moments with the attachments.

[fonicdreamer]

Did you now. Perhaps we can talk once I'm feeling less queasy about it...

[cursed_analysis]

Are you sure? Right now might be the best time to go over your notes and address some other issues you had.

Plus, I'd had to arrive at a problem when you've disposed of all of your specimens.

[fonicdreamer]

To be frank, I'm not. I'm just waiting for my stomach to stop churning before I come up with a more articulate response.