EMET CATCHALL

[fleshedout]

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[fleshedout]

Mm.

[It takes a moment for her to turn her attention towards him, like she just came back from deep though, and glances up. She has some pots in hand.]

Emet-Selch. Are you feeling better?

[ktiseos]

I am, yes.

[and, after a brief pause:]

I trust you have recovered as well?

[fleshedout]

[A tilt of the head.]

...Depends in what way you're asking.

[ktiseos]

You seemed-

[how to put it.]

Your behavior was worrying, at times, but you have seemed more yourself in recent days.

[fleshedout]

I get a little annoyed when people dance around stuff. Myself, included.

[She says, offhand, but there's no bite in it, just saying it.]

So...yes. I was refracted. But I've been cured.

[ktiseos]

[an almost amused little huff.]

Fair enough, I suppose, but 'tis a relief that you have been. I was quite concerned, last weekend.

[fleshedout]

Oh, believe me, I was terrified.

[Because they all saw what happened to Malik. It wouldn't even be the transformation, but the fact she could harm others.]

Its the worst thing in the world, when you feel like you're losing your mind, and you can't stop it. If I could thank whoever cured that...well, there would't be enough words for my gratitude.

[ktiseos]

Well, you shall not have to experience it again, now.

[or so he hopes. if she's been afflicted once... well. they haven't had repeats yet.]

But I could not say how or who either.

[fleshedout]

One person said the Residents, but I'm not sure.

[A hum.]

Regardless, it can be done. It was done for Percy too, right?

[ktiseos]

I believe this was likely the case, yes. And in that sense-- all is not lost, when there are two refracting.

[fleshedout]

[She smiles to herself a little.]

It's nice to have some hope, after everything.

[ktiseos]

We shall still need to put a stop to these refractions happening at all, but-- to know that even some may be saved is still a great reassurance.

[fleshedout]

But of course. We can't destroy this place, since that failed with Dreamer, but working with "the other side"...

Well, I think our key lays in that.

[ktiseos]

So it does, I think.

We shall need to see what they have to say. If there is aught of import which they have gleaned, wherever they may be.

[fleshedout]

...It feels a bit strange that the dead are still..."around" in some sense. But its good, too.

I...want to make sure we save them.

[ktiseos]

...it is difficult, for me to say I wish to reverse any sort of death. Given my position, such a thing would be anathema.

[a slow exhale, there.]

And yet it is equally difficult to say these deaths were right, that they ought to stand.

[fleshedout]

Hm.

[They did talk about it briefly before, didn't they?]

Keeper of the dead...in your world, if people die unfairly...are they treated the same?