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Who: Hakkai and anyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Marsiva
When: Now!

[Hakkai rises back to consciousness very slowly, with a sense of dread whose source he can't immediately identify. He's cold, all the way down to his bones...but that's not surprising, he remembers, considering where they last were.

His eyes fly open, and he sits up in alarm. Although the fight was over, they were definitely not out of danger yet, wounded and in the open with no shelter. He hadn't thought he'd been so drained from healing Sanzo as to lose consciousness...

...but the surroundings that meet his eyes are definitely not a remote mountainside, and perhaps even more surprisingly, nothing hurts. Did someone find them? How long has he been asleep?

There doesn't seem to be anyone around, but he calls out anyway, a little hesitantly.]

...Is anyone there?

[No helpful villagers - or creepy scientists, as seems a little more likely in this kind of setting - make an immediate appearance, and he's fully healed and recovered from the chi drain of...whenever he was last conscious, so he gets up to look around.]

What sort of place is this...?

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[He waves dismissively.] Of course not, but even on a good day it's hard to find someone who knows their ass from their face. I get you.

There's one more thing that you probably won't find out unless you're unlucky: don't mess with the thing behind your ear. Just don't. If you take it out you'll die... or wish you had. It's not worth it.

[ That's...unnerving, and it shows on his face, for once looking entirely serious. ]

It's that bad? ...Can you be a little more...detailed, about what happens?

I haven't done it personally, but the archives have video of people who were less-informed. There was blood, collapsing, screaming like they're being tortured, unconsciousness...

It's tied directly into our heads. I imagine indiscriminately yanking shit out is probably not the best course of action.

[He spreads his arms.]

But I could be wrong. You could try it just to see if you get ratings. Personally? I'm happy without experiencing pain so bad I pass out.

...Yes, I don't think I'll be experimenting with that anytime soon. [ Especially since he doesn't know what effect it would have on his youkai abilities re: self-preservation instincts. His condition is stable right now, so until there's a reasonable solution, there's no need to go fixing something that's, if not exactly 'not broken', at least functional for now. ]

I appreciate the warning.

[Not just functional, but mildly useful. Not that Varric is a fan of information being deposited directly into his brain.]

No problem. I'm Varric, by the way. Storyteller, rogue, and entrepreneur.

And I'm Hakkai. [ The corner of his mouth quirks up slightly, gaze going distant for a moment. ] ...I guess you could call me a 'jack of all trades and master of none', but usually my employment when I find it is as a schoolteacher.

A schoolteacher? [He nods.] Where I'm from, education is usually provided by a private tutor. The whole concept of cramming a bunch of rowdy children into a room terrifies me. Points to you for tackling that shit head-on.

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