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Who: anyone
When: day 38, after noon
Where: in and around the train

[A gentle breeze keeps the afternoon cool. It seems peaceful around now, with the malice pushed back so far, unless you're heading to the island of concentrated malice of course.

It's a good day to relax and daydream.

Distantly you might sometimes hear the tick ticking of clockwork? Or it might be your imagination.

Speaking of imagination, if you think about things too hard you may find your thoughts and feelings shared with those nearby. Or even if you don't think hard at all.

At the mildest this might simply be like your thoughts and emotions being understood by others next to you, either in a vague or explicitly detailed way, but at the most extreme you might project shared delusions. Something like others getting to watch your own memories. Or fantasy sequences. Or inner monologues. Or maybe even blending you delusions with another's.

Whether it goes that far or remains a more telepathic/empathic thing is very random.]

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Oh, yes, that.

[IS CERTAINLY A THING THAT HAPPENED

IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT CONTINUES TO BE A THING

80H feels the need to try and explain, defend, something, but while trying to respect her privacy, not that breeze cares about that much from the sounds of things, but it is the principle of the matter.]

...It is complicated.

[#nailedit]

She is trying.

Oh, I'm aware.

I'm.

Very.

Aware.

[And he just sounds so very tired.]

Got a lot of information from both.

[well 80H can guess how that went down and she feels bad oddly...something else as well.]

...It did not grow physical, did it?

[because that is unacceptable actually]

Not with her.

[Because when you're involved in a decades long war with threat of extinction, you have a kneejerk reaction when someone says they wanted to make humans go extinct.]

He attacked you?

No, I punched him.

For reasons I'm.

Dealing with. It's complicated and honestly pretty fucking stupid.

I see.

[she cannot even really bring herself to sound reproachful or anything. dusk does not seem like he'd be really quick to anger, he cares about people way too much to lash out unless it was something devastating, she imagines.

midnight probably had it coming.]

Well, I am sorry you are having a difficult time.

[He honestly kind of did.]

Thanks.

[He sighs, rubbing at the back of his neck.] I'm figuring it out. But he also needs to show his face again and get his heart back in before that so... [Gestures in a vague 'what can you do' motion.]

...Has he been missing?

[ruh roh]

Yes. I haven't been able to find a sign of him.

I see. Well, let us hope he has not acted recklessly.

He better not, I'd like to get through at least one interaction that doesn't involve getting into a fight and he was being dumb before that.

It may be prudent to prepare yourself for the worst outcome, all matters considered.

....yeah, I know.

[He sighs and just. Tired.]

[Which might be keying into this empathy thing cause that's there.]

[oh yeah there it goes she feels that tiredness like her own, but she does not entirely realise it, give her a moment or two]

There is not much use in worrying about it either, I suppose. What will happen will happen.

....also true. [Which is frustrating.]

So what are your cooking plans?

Wrapping fish in leaves with other things and setting them to cook over a fire.

[...she doesn't feel frustrated and yet she does and it takes her a moment because feeling feelings not hers has become so natural to her even if she's been without it for some time now.]

Something is amiss.

Cool. Sounds pretty tasty, actually. [Fresh food always is.]

There is? What? [Looking around and there was a very sharp spike in paranoia and caution.]

[yep those are definitely not her feelings of paranoia

also wow that's a LOT OF THAT. she, on the other hand, is feeling extremely

nothing, actually.]

I am certain that I am detecting your feelings.

[The fact he's still relatively calm looking probably says a lot of how much he normally is.]

You're what? [Confusion, surprisr, that quickly fades to....yeah, why not feels, to more confusion.]

There is an empathetic bond between us, going in at least one direction.

Um.

Why?

I suppose it is simply happening because it is, as these things go sometimes.

Oh.

[There's a spike of nervousness, but then it quickly subsides because, well, 80H isn't terrible to know his emotional state. Mess that it is.]

Do you....think that's just going to happen with everyone?

[Because there are some people who DON'T need to know his level of paranoia.]

Uncertain. This could be the only effect or it could be one of several yet to be encountered.