they wrestled with lifetime's grasp (open!)

[thenobledie]

Who: idk.
When: August 14th - August 16th, I guess.
Where: the Clinic
Format: whatever
What: Oh, shit. It's cannibalistic elves and whoever hasn't been eaten by them yet, and Lisa should stop making event-long open logs at the Clinic. u n s u r e.
Warnings: Um, let's go with a general warning of injuries. Otherwise, these are usually tame logs...

Comments

Re: fifteenth.

[break_onthru]

[See Break. See Break sneaking out of bed. See Break taking his things and trying to tiptoe toward the door, because there's fighting going on out there and he still has a score to settle with those elves who kidnapped his friend. B|]

[break_onthru]

[On second thought, he is going to pull the blanket over his head. B| His voice, muffled, comes from under it.]

I was hoping for a time frame a little more precise than that.

[thenobledie]

Such a thing depends upon you, Xerxes.

[break_onthru]

[Grumble grumble mumble mrrghffl. He rolls onto his side.]

[thenobledie]

[ i know, she is terrible and cryptic. and GOD, shirley. do you think you could be helpful when it really counts? no, sitting on the foot of the bed is not helpful...

and w e l p. shirley is sitting there, her back to him, waiting. he is foolish in all the ways she pities, but she won't abandon him when he needs something real. how has no one else spoken to him about this? ]

[break_onthru]

[ ... Is that her sitting on the bed. B| Can't you tell he plans to wallow and that is always most effective alone? He doesn't bother to pull the covers down to speak.]

You don't need to keep up a vigil, you know. I prrromise I won't sneak off again.

[Maybe.]

[thenobledie]

[ she has to say this for the optimal effect of wallowing, though! no, okay. she means to bring what she will up for the reason of needing to be said; shirley expects there to be wallowing, though. ]

I hardly have time for a vigil.

[break_onthru]

...Then why aren't you leaving?

[thenobledie]

I would be remiss to not ask of your blindness.

[break_onthru]

[He tenses visibly, even under the blanket. How does she know? HE TRIES REALLY HARD NOT TO BE THAT OBVIOUS, DAMMIT.]

There's nothing to say about it.

[thenobledie]

There is much to be said of something that is often ignored.

[break_onthru]

Not in this case.

[Go away.]

[thenobledie]

[ no. ]

You must learn to accept it.

[ and she turns to face him, even if he doesn't know she does. ]

[break_onthru]

I have accepted it.

[Kind of. He was doing better before Kevin showed up, and he could finally see the city he's been living in for several months. Now his sight is gone again, and the readjustment has proved difficult.]

It's nothing. It's less than nothing. It isn't even worth talking about.

... Talking about it won't change anything.

[thenobledie]

Nothing does not garner such frustration.

[break_onthru]

The only thing I'm frustrated by is the circulation you are cutting off in my toes.

[She's... not even sitting on your feet, what.]