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2019-09-01 06:09 pm (UTC)
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[Why are men so fragile? Or maybe it's just human beings.]
We weren't coming out here to talk about me, anyway.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 06:18 pm (UTC)
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I suppose we weren't.
[But he doesn't volunteer anything beyond that, settling into his own fragility.]
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 06:20 pm (UTC)
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Or we can just walk if you'd rather.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 06:26 pm (UTC)
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Might be best.
[He's starting to feel unhelpful, so he adds a bit more as a good faith effort.]
My mind has been through a lot. Not always the easiest to parse.
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 06:46 pm (UTC)
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There's been a lot going on. Can't blame you if it's not always easy to process.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 07:06 pm (UTC)
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[He gives her a long look, weighing his options.]
D'you remember the Hydra incident of 2014?
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 07:14 pm (UTC)
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I couldn't forget that one if I tried.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 07:20 pm (UTC)
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I suffered some trauma as a result of the attack.
[She doesn't need to know the hows or the whys. They don't particularly matter.]
Processing has been more of a hurdle since then.
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 07:31 pm (UTC)
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TBI?
[Not to pry, but it is a little different if he means a head injury or if he means PTSD.]
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 07:40 pm (UTC)
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Similar.
[He swallows hard.]
My symptoms are complications after I was drowned.
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 08:27 pm (UTC)
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I'm sorry to hear that. It's tough.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 08:29 pm (UTC)
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I've learned to live with it.
[HE shrugs, hoping to dismiss the issue.]
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 08:40 pm (UTC)
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[She'll nod, not pressing further.]
Amazing what we can learn to live with.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 09:36 pm (UTC)
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It's manageable. But. Sometimes, there are challenges.
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 10:16 pm (UTC)
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Being down here would challenge any of us.
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 10:40 pm (UTC)
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It's. More complicated than that. There's the chance that I might set the community in danger.
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 10:57 pm (UTC)
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Care to elaborate on that?
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hypoxic
2019-09-01 11:15 pm (UTC)
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There've been incidents in the past. Breaking through dimensional walls isn't always a clean process.
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deaddrop
2019-09-01 11:25 pm (UTC)
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That didn't clear up anything. At all.
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hypoxic
2019-09-02 01:05 am (UTC)
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I came close to erecting a portal, but it opened a gateway into something worse. People were hurt.
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deaddrop
2019-09-02 01:28 am (UTC)
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Not here?
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hypoxic
2019-09-02 01:33 am (UTC)
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Not here. Resources here are much harder to come by.
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deaddrop
2019-09-02 01:50 am (UTC)
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Where you were before then.
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hypoxic
2019-09-02 01:52 am (UTC)
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[He nods.]
For all the good that did.
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deaddrop
2019-09-02 02:01 am (UTC)
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I fail to see how this makes you more of a liability than anyone else.
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2019-09-07 16:21 (UTC)
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2019-09-08 04:33 (UTC)
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We weren't coming out here to talk about me, anyway.
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[But he doesn't volunteer anything beyond that, settling into his own fragility.]
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[He's starting to feel unhelpful, so he adds a bit more as a good faith effort.]
My mind has been through a lot. Not always the easiest to parse.
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D'you remember the Hydra incident of 2014?
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[He swallows hard.]
My symptoms are complications after I was drowned.
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Amazing what we can learn to live with.
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For all the good that did.
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