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[countermeasures]

i really need to remember to do visuals this game

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w5, saturday post trial

[chevaliered]

[ imagine if i said he wasn't in the medbay, lmao. he is, and he looks like he just got out of the pods again.

he can be taught! ]

[countermeasures]

[honestly jiuqing looks immediately relieved when she sees him]

Oh, good...

[chevaliered]

I have been well trained at this point, Doc.

[ and he likes not being in pain. ]

[countermeasures]

If more people thought like you, my job would be much easier.

[chevaliered]

I'm just tired of being in pain, y'know? Normally I'm a menace.

[countermeasures]

[she thinks about it for a moment]

Yes, I can imagine that.

[chevaliered]

... Oof.

Be nice to me, I'm injured.

[countermeasures]

[innocently:]

I'm just agreeing with what you said.

[chevaliered]

[ mean ]

I almost get accused of murder and now I’m being bullied, what a weekend.

[countermeasures]

...I'm just really relieved you're okay.

[she wouldn't be able to bully him if he wasn't!]

[chevaliered]

...

Yeah, I'm glad too. [ ooof. ] Ended up being a bit down to the wire, but somehow we figured it out.

[countermeasures]

...it's good that you remembered what you saw in her memory, the other week.

I... hadn't seen anything like that, so I had no idea.

[let me tell you being canon familiar to roxana but not icly knowing about the vore butterflies was hell... especially when the other stuff that i could get my hands on icly that looked like they were clues didn't really add up...]

[chevaliered]

[ i was so slow at catching on that when i did i went ARA out loud hei, zetsu and ryza were like BECKS??
me, furiously in her dms like: YOU ]

I'd almost forgotten it, but when she started coughing up blood it nagged at me. I didn't exactly want it to be right, but ... after finding out what happened to Meteion, it sort of a wild shot in the semi-darkness than had to happen.

[countermeasures]

...

[she nods]

It would have been nice if it wasn't the case, but - the truth is the truth. And because you took the risk to say something, we know it's the truth now. So...

[chevaliered]

[ he just exhales. ]

Fuck, imagine if I was wrong. It's gonna be awkward enough checking in on her like "whoops, sorry I caught you after you committed murder."

[countermeasures]

I don't think it really has to be awkward. She knows what she did, and we all know what she did.

It would only been awkward if she hadn't been guilty, I think...

[chevaliered]

I'm pretty sure she can and will be mad at me for calling it out, but what can you do?

[countermeasures]

What, were you supposed to let her get away with it and turn into a goat?

[chevaliered]

[ please she'd have been a beautiful and terrifying butterfly. ]

No. But it's weird to be kinda relieved I was right. I know it all worked out for the best overall but, y'know. Survival's her thing.

[countermeasures]

We're all doing what we can to survive. For her, maybe that meant killing Sir Garou. But for us, that had to mean discovering what she did.

[chevaliered]

... I'm interested in asking her why Garou, but again. She's likely to take her secrets with her to wherever the dead have gone.

[countermeasures]

No, I don't believe she'll be terribly forthcoming... but you don't really lose anything by asking.

[chevaliered]

True. I'm gonna see if I can find out why she targeted Garou, of all people. If there was some refracted influenced reason for it.

[countermeasures]

[she nods]

...I suppose it's... also possible he was refracted and attacked first. But if it was self-defense, I'd have expected her to say so.

[chevaliered]

It'd be... incredibly shit if it was that. But then-- [ he sighs. ] If you keep something close to your chest, you know it can be used to stab you somehow. Like keeping why you attacked someone silent if it was in self-defence.

She knew that. And if she didn't say anything anyway, then-- [ then that's her decision to have made. ]