Your regularly scheduled creepy visitor

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and anyone who needs him... or wants to chat to him
Broadcast: No
Action: On any ship except Marsiva, Tourist or Red Fish because he avoids visiting two and can't visit the third.
When: While the fleet is moving and probably a bit after

[There is this thing Cole does.

He visits other ships. Sometimes he put the Pathstone alongside to visit and sometimes he takes a shuttle, but he's constantly wandering all over the fleet, being with people, circulating.

He hasn't done it in a while. He got a nasty fright and went into hiding for a while.

But the creepy psychic being is back! Sticking his large nose into all the business.]

Comments

[killedwithlove]

I'm not Despair. And I didn't have to be killed. Does that it's worked out?

[namisan]

For now. Who made you think you had to be killed?

[killedwithlove]

No one made me think it. Only Solas can make me think things and he's not here.

[namisan]

[You take things too literally, ugh. Still, that can't be changed.]

What happened?

[Is that straightforward enough?]

[killedwithlove]

I met someone who embodies despair and self loathing. And I feel people's hurts and try to help them. I usually know how to help.

He wants to die. He wants to suffer more.

[namisan]

[Sounds like a healthy individual. She's quiet a moment, wondering whether to say any more on that. He can't save everyone. Some people don't want to be saved.

Instead, she asks:]

Will you see him again?

[killedwithlove]

Not if I can avoid it?

[namisan]

Good.

Your own well-being is important too, you know?

[killedwithlove]

I know. People keep telling me.

[namisan]

Do you believe them?

[killedwithlove]

I believe they believe it.

[namisan]

[Let's try again.]

Do you believe your own well-being is important?

[killedwithlove]

... I don't know.

[namisan]

[Oh, Cole. She smiles.]

Well. That's a better answer than no. Worth thinking about more, huh?

[killedwithlove]

I don't learn things by thinking about it. I don't learn like that.

[namisan]

How do you learn, then?

[killedwithlove]

From people. Experiences. Doing. Hearing. Seeing. Thinking doesn't teach me.

[namisan]

Thinking is good for insight, though... learning about yourself, and why you might react certain ways.

[killedwithlove]

But... I know about me. And why I do what I do.

[namisan]

You nearly got yourself killed because you thought you were Despair.

[killedwithlove]

I was Despair. I was more Despair than Mercy.

I pulled myself back.

[namisan]

[....

....letting it go. He obviously views this from a different angle.]

I'm glad you got through it.

[killedwithlove]

[It's almost certainly not worth trying to clarify.]

Me too. I'd rather not die.