richie catchall

[florescences]

i only know about it through osmosis..... how much clown trauma

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[gutterbound]

[Catching people later is a luxury only public gamers like that traitor nu can afford.]

Huh?

[He'll blink up at her, pale-faced and sitting in his bed. He's very bandaged, though most of the damage was to the empty shoulder socket and the back of him. Very little front-facing wounds.]

...Sorry, can I help you?

[florescences]

[ richie, your fucking arm (elsyia doesn't think this)

she frowns as she comes closer and looks at where his empty shoulder socket is. ]

No. It's more about... how I can help you. [ there isn't much she can do right now, she knows. ]

Maybe you should lie down.

[gutterbound]

No, no, my back is pure hell, I don't...

[He flinches. Suddenly cupping his face.]

No I don't want to lie down.

[florescences]

Hm? Richie, what is it?

[ she reaches out to touch one of his hands. ]

What happened?

[gutterbound]

[BUT HE ONLY HAS ONE LEFT. She may touch it though, even if he flinches up, swallows, looks away.]

...War. For a while. [His lip twitches.] Then I was in a...guess a sort of captive position.

[florescences]

[ HELP SORRY I KNEW HE LOST HIS ARM i just auto'd like a fool who never thinks ]

War? Were you a prisoner of war?

[ that's worrying. ]

[gutterbound]

[that's okay I'm gonna do the same thing fifty times during trial tomorrow]

After a while, yes. First we were all medics together. Then it just....

[His nose wrinkles. He pinches at it, eyes closed as he tries to wrangle the thoughts together. Remember it right.]

It was like time shot forward. I'd been captured for a long time. Longer than made any sense.

And I...I crossed the big guy in charge.

[florescences]

[ ... ]

You must have been treated poorly for that. Is that when you lost your arm?

[gutterbound]

...

[He looks to her. There's a curious smile on his face, twitchy at the edge. Eyes bright and frightful. He has to swallow before he speaks.]

...He slit my friend's throat in front of me. Then he batted me around until he got bored, and pulled my arm out and ate it.

I tried to run. [He laughs, shuddering.] Motherfucker was quick as a lick. He caught up in no time at all and finished his dinner.

[florescences]

[ i see he met hoolay

elysia doesn't know anything about that, but she watches him carefully. her concern isn't hidden; it's clear. she doesn't grimace at the recollection of violence. ]

I'm sorry. It must have been so horrendous to experience, to be played with like that. Dying again... feeling so helpless.... I am glad that you are here, now.

I know it will be hard to forget, but... you are here now.

[gutterbound]

[Grits teeth, he really did meet him!!!]

I know. I know. Thank you, Els. [He wets his lips and gives a shuddering breath.] And I know it was some sort of...not hallucination, but it couldn't be wholly real. Not with the way things played out. Or the people who were there.

It was like getting sucked into a wormhole. But for god's sake, why did it happen at all?

[florescences]

... It kind of sounds like a bubble world but not quite. An alternate universe scenario... you experienced it. Your wounds are proof, but it's not your true reality.

[ she grips his one singular hand. ]

I don't know. I know I've heard some people say it could be a trial, but it seems too extreme for that.