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[experiencepoints]

Who: Everyone messed up by the dragon plot, and visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Blue Fish's clinic!
When: All throughout the Solrius dragon plot and through the space flight to the next destination.

[So several RPG characters, a dragon, and two messianic figures walk into a planet.

Everything is suffering and tears, there's a lot of dead people, there's no punchline. But, hey, for the survivors, the Blue Fish's clinic is treating wounds and generally being a decent place to rest and recover and pray you don't see a dragon again. And for those who weren't involved, there's enough people bedridden here that there may just be someone you want to visit.]

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[robitussin]

No, I get it... But you're going to hurt yourself.

[a pause]

How are you feeling?

[experiencepoints]

Worried.

[and possibly high on painkillers.]

And confused, but mostly worried.

[robitussin]

Your head got hit pretty hard...

[sighs]

But that isn't really what I meant.

[experiencepoints]

... What did you mean?

[that's not why i'm confused except it is a little.]

[robitussin]

Like, physically. How are you feeling?

[experiencepoints]

Like I got the shit beaten out of me by an asshole strong enough to tame a dragon.

[robitussin]

Makes sense.

[breathes out a sigh]

You really scared me, you know?

[experiencepoints]

... Sorry.

But... I don't think I was hallucinating when you showed up to save me. How did you know...?

[robitussin]

Is that really what matters right now? Like, seriously?

[experiencepoints]

... I guess not. I'm just curious...

[not like i can do anything else]

[robitussin]

Yeah, well, I'm curious as to why I found you alone, bleeding and half dead, about to be eaten by a fucking dragon. Can we start with that?

[experiencepoints]

I-

[She cringes, like a child being scolded. But she breathes, and focuses. She's more than that now. She's moving on. She doesn't have to be scared of Opal, or how she'll react.]

I didn't think there would be a fight. That's... I thought, if it's Sorey and Mikleo, I can talk to them. They're my friends. I thought... They wouldn't want to hurt me, so we could talk... And if it looked like it was going to be violent, they're still people. I could just cold-cock them with sleep spells.

... I was arrogant.

[robitussin]

It's not that you were arrogant, it's - once it got dangerous, why didn't you leave? Even just to get help?

[experiencepoints]

I didn't think I could. If I had shown my back, I would have been dead.

[She lets out a slow breath. That was true, but that wasn't really why. And Natalie deserves to know.]

... And... I didn't want to run away again. I don't ever want to be the person who ran away and left my friends behind... Not after what I did to Takshaka.

[robitussin]

If I didn't come when I did, he would have killed you. You get that, right? If there didn't happen to be a shuttle close by you would have bled to death.

[experiencepoints]

[She gets it, and it terrifies her.]

I had a plan. I had called Allen for backup... I was just stalling so they wouldn't run away before he got there.

[robitussin]

Stalling? Is that what you call what was happening?

[experiencepoints]

Until the end, yes! It didn't last forever, but it worked for a while, and what else was I supposed to do?!

[robitussin]

God, I don't know, not be reckless and almost get yourself killed?

[experiencepoints]

How am I supposed to leave that?! Didn't you see what happened to him?!

[robitussin]

Yeah, I did, which is why it's obvious that talking or stalling or whatever wasn't going to do anything! There had to have been people who could help restrain them or something other than that!

[experiencepoints]

I couldn't leave it, because what happened to him is the same thing Nyssa did to you!

[There's tears in her eyes as she manages to choke that out with a hoarse voice.

... She's a bit too doped up to realize the other problems with what she just said, though. Those can wait. This is more important.]

[robitussin]

[she looks shocked for a moment, reminded of something she still feels sick thinking about. she takes a breath.]

...Do you know how much I would have hated myself if I had hurt somebody as badly as he hurt you?

[experiencepoints]

I know. That's exactly why I wanted to stop them. Before they did worse.

... I already know I failed.

[robitussin]

I don't care about you failing or whatever, I...

You should have been thinking about more than just them.