he is a wreck. having been in the heal pod, he's not bleeding profusely anymore, but emet will pretty clearly be able to see that a chunk of his ear is missing and he's got some fading acid burns on his face. he
glances down at the bed where his legs are also just a bandaged nightmare zone and says: ]
...Something didn't happen? [ don't be a smartass ] 'm fine, 've had worse.
[ he may look! it's actually just a pendant from the closet - if he looks closely, he will see that it's a a raven skull. he's just turning it over and over.
vax frowns as he considers the question, though, and gives a shake of his head. ]
...Iunno. Just a plain white space - bunch of weird shit in it, too. Lots of doors and full of illusions. Fucked with my head and my memories.
Yeah. Talked to Vin - she thinks its some kind of part of the Prism. Reacting to us, somehow. If it is, that's a fucking nightmare.
[ thankfully, at least, they all came out alive. well. sort of? vax was probably dead when he landed, but, hey, he's good now! what else is new. ]
... It took things it shouldn'tve known and used them against me, too. All of us. [ the prism, always listening. vax's expression shifts, here - he glances down at the necklace in his hand again, and curls his hand around it, tight. there's something haunted in his expression, though he tries to keep it hidden. ] I saw my sister.
It does react to us in some sense, I believe. One among the residents told me fairly early on that they believed some of what was occurring was due to us, and our relative instability after-- well. Being transported somewhere entirely unfamiliar, surrounded by strangers. That it needed us to calm before it could settle, even though we needed it to settle before we could truly calm.
[he is, predictably, not the biggest fan of the situation.]
I am unsurprised to learn it somehow knows more of us, and in that case... the familiar is certainly easy to use against us.
Had you not seen her in some time, before arriving here?
[ hateful. vax makes a little bit of a face. ] I hate this fucking Prism.
[ well, if emet won't say it!! he will. this place sucks!!! even if it has infinite closets!
beyond that, though - something in his expression changes as emet says that. there's a visible sort of hurt to his eyes, and he turns his head away. ] ... 's complicated. [ because it's less about not having seen her, and more about not being able to in the future.
he reaches up and scrubs a hand over his face. ] It wouldn't have mattered, though. 's still my sister - fucking place knew exactly what to use to get at me. I know now it was an illusion, but it was hard to think otherwise when we were trapped there.
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[the voice, naturally, comes from way above him! emet-selch peers down at him, brow furrowed.]
Do not tell me something happened to you, as well.
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he is a wreck. having been in the heal pod, he's not bleeding profusely anymore, but emet will pretty clearly be able to see that a chunk of his ear is missing and he's got some fading acid burns on his face. he
glances down at the bed where his legs are also just a bandaged nightmare zone and says: ]
...Something didn't happen? [ don't be a smartass ] 'm fine, 've had worse.
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[on account of having died before, and all. he's breathing now, he's alive, surely that's not the worst.
what is it he's messing with in his hand, anyway.]
Just what was it? We've seen naught like this yet, and suddenly half of you turn up injured.
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vax frowns as he considers the question, though, and gives a shake of his head. ]
...Iunno. Just a plain white space - bunch of weird shit in it, too. Lots of doors and full of illusions. Fucked with my head and my memories.
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[hm. that one is certainly new; they've mainly seen dark spaces, here. grey. black.
but-]
Toying with that is more concerning than inflicting physical injury, however. Are you certain it does not yet linger?
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[ vax curls his fingers around the raven pendant, expression focused - he's thinking, trying to clearly recall the details. ]
I think I'm alright. It just - it made me feel like I'd been there forever instead of here. 's all. The further we went in the more confusing it got.
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[don't bring time shenanigans into this he is begging he is so tired of time shit.]
Was that the only way in which it affected you, save for the physical...?
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[ thankfully, at least, they all came out alive. well. sort of? vax was probably dead when he landed, but, hey, he's good now! what else is new. ]
... It took things it shouldn'tve known and used them against me, too. All of us. [ the prism, always listening. vax's expression shifts, here - he glances down at the necklace in his hand again, and curls his hand around it, tight. there's something haunted in his expression, though he tries to keep it hidden. ] I saw my sister.
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[he is, predictably, not the biggest fan of the situation.]
I am unsurprised to learn it somehow knows more of us, and in that case... the familiar is certainly easy to use against us.
Had you not seen her in some time, before arriving here?
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[ well, if emet won't say it!! he will. this place sucks!!! even if it has infinite closets!
beyond that, though - something in his expression changes as emet says that. there's a visible sort of hurt to his eyes, and he turns his head away. ] ... 's complicated. [ because it's less about not having seen her, and more about not being able to in the future.
he reaches up and scrubs a hand over his face. ] It wouldn't have mattered, though. 's still my sister - fucking place knew exactly what to use to get at me. I know now it was an illusion, but it was hard to think otherwise when we were trapped there.
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he's quiet, a few long moments.]
...when faced with such things, I imagine it would be.
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...what matters is it wasn't real. She's fine. [ even if i can't be there goes unsaid. ] I am, too.
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[it's somewhat blunt, but.]