[Not long after Lloyd tells her where Kratos is, she's showing up in the clinic. She hesitates in the doorway of his room, not quite sure what to expect.]
[He immediately jerks his arm out of her grip and reaches his hand to his side, where his sword usually is, though it's absent right now. Instead, he narrows his eyes in the direction where he assumes she is.]
[Somehow, no matter how he feels toward her, she can't not be open with Yuan.]
Empty. Alone... Weary. Weakened, though that's merely temporary.
[A pause, and when she speaks again, she's got almost a smile to her voice:]
Alive. I feel so incredibly alive...
[Then she remembers. She'd visited Yuan, as... as she had last been. She'd hurt him so terribly. The smile fades completely, and if you could see her right now, you'd see her absolutely distraught.]
Yuan, I'm so sorry. Those things I said to you... I'd never-...
I was a monster.
[Self-loathing and Martel are rarely ever in the same sentiment, but that last sentence? Completely thick with it. She couldn't stand that, even as a blood-sucking creature of the night, she'd allowed herself to say those things to him.]
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Hey, Martel... there's something I wanted to ask you, if it's not too much trouble.
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Oh Kratos...
[She steps over to his bedside, laying a hand gently on his arm.]
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...You doing okay?
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Empty. Alone... Weary. Weakened, though that's merely temporary.
[A pause, and when she speaks again, she's got almost a smile to her voice:]
Alive. I feel so incredibly alive...
[Then she remembers. She'd visited Yuan, as... as she had last been. She'd hurt him so terribly. The smile fades completely, and if you could see her right now, you'd see her absolutely distraught.]
Yuan, I'm so sorry. Those things I said to you... I'd never-...
I was a monster.
[Self-loathing and Martel are rarely ever in the same sentiment, but that last sentence? Completely thick with it. She couldn't stand that, even as a blood-sucking creature of the night, she'd allowed herself to say those things to him.]
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