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Who: Heroes
When: Day 36 night
Where: Back outside the train

[Well. You’re all in some kind of. State. A rather chagrined voice mutters on the wind;]

That isn’t quite how I envisioned it going…

[At any rate! There are new stars in the sky in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple and senna terracotta.

Well how are you all doing?]

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Okay. What... Happened? Aside from a Trial.

[He holds up the clockwork heart.] This is my actual heart.

Um...

I'm sorry, what?!

[What?]

I'm undead right now.

I'm gonna see if 80H can shove this back into my chest.

What??

....What?

[Sorry no he takes a breath and scrubs at his face.]

Okay wait. Um, how? Not that she's a bad choice also that seems a good idea but how?

Crack open my ribs, I assume.

Maybe be ready to hit up the healing pod right after, but as long as it's not a revival, I should almost...

[MATHING]

....guess it depends how bad it is.

[Looks at Rean and gestures him closer.]

[Stepping closer because what the fuck man.]

If you need help with healing or cost let me know. Or I guess... Any of this.

Why is this a thing?!

We'll see what we need.

Because goth runner is an asshole.

[And hand on his shoulder and he's just]

[Really goddamn tired, super low on fucks to give, and MAYBE REAN IS SUPER ADORABLE right now and]

[Sorry Rean, you're getting pulled into a proper actual kiss.]

[Makes a noise that is totally startled and confused but he doesn't stop Dusk immediately.

One, it's nice. It's not like he isn't attracted to Dusk. Kissing him is--really great actually. In a confusing and abrupt way. But this is not, in fact, normal behavior. No one is acting normal except Eliza and she's a lizard.

So after a moment of being bright red and flustered and kissing back Rean gets his act together and puts both hands on Dusk's shoulders and gently pushes himself back enough to not be, uh, liplocked.]

Okay. At the risk of maybe being an asshole, I'm not sure that is um, "you", right now.

[He at least seems to have kissed before, at least. Sorry he's...cold. That's a thing.]

[But he is enjoying the kiss. Rean is warm and feels soft and he's cute. This is nice.]

[He does let himself be pushed back, and his eyes are closed and it's stupid, how much it's helping him focus. Affection does that.]

[He opens his eyes at the question.]

Of course it's me?

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Well, yeah, it's you. But I'm not sure you'd have kissed me like that this morning. We were at--you know what I'm not going to analyze what we were at.

[He keeps his hands on Dusk though! Not pulling back more.]

Just no one else is acting like themselves.

[He opens his mouth]

[Closes it again]

[He closes his eyes, rubs at his temple because ugh. Ugh ugh.]

I...I don't.... [He shakes his head.] Sorry, I should have asked. I just....I need to be sure everyone is okay.

Don't apologize. I mean, I very much have the opposite of a problem with you kissing me like that. Just, the circumstances strike me as kinda suspect, you know? I don't want to be the guy taking advantage.

So.

[Cheerfully and gently, lifting a hand to cup Dusk's cheek and then to ruffle his hair.]

How about you? You are definitely not okay. How can I help?

...fair.

[He's. Not sure how to take it right now, if he's honest. His head is kind of skipping a bit to make sense of it. He doesn't have the emotional capacity to dissect all that.]

Like I said, 80H is going to get my heart in. I just need to do things.

I kind of want to eat people, so I need to focus on literally anything else.

[Which you will definitely find out about later when I take a chunk out of your teammates.]

[He can tell Dusk is having a Time and he's at a loss how to handle it. Just be himself as best as possible as usual he guesses.]

Okay. Good call. I'm sorry to break this too you but I just don't think eating people suits you. You're gonna have to look into a different career path, I know you had your heart set on it.

[Maybe if he makes bad jokes.]

And here Maine had been training me so well.

[Terrible cannibal jokes.]

I know you were really looking forward to it but I can recommend many non-people eating life paths as alternatives, I'm sure some day you'll adjust to this change in lifestyle.

Well, I guess it's a strength to give up on dreams if you're ill suited.

Sometimes it can't be helped. Have you considered.... Perhaps a career in cat herding?

Gasp. No. I can't. Those dreams are far too high.

[He can deadpan that.]

Reach for the stars Dusk.

At any rate, aside from offer my charmingly witty banter, anything I can do?

Be prepared to knock out a Clover if one of us loose it.

And tackle them if they try to break their heart. It's safe to have it away from them. [He currently has two because SOMEONE couldn't be trusted with it.]

I'm dealing with it, but my line of work did involve crazy willpower.

[Hm... Does he have the energy? It'd take a lot out of him but it should be doable.]

Okay. And if you or anyone needs to be put in a pocket dimension where there isn't anyone to eat to cool down, uh, just let me know.

....yeah, that could be necessary.

Keep a special eye on our new kid. I don't think he could take actually hurting someone.

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