Video 01

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and anyone
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marvisa
When: Now until the next shuffle?

[Cole doesn't usually sleep, so waking up is very unfamiliar. He doesn't usually feel the cold or heat much, so the deep coldness in his bones is alien.

He jerks upright with a gasp, hands scrabbling at the back of his neck and then he vanishes in a puff of black-green smoke and reappears in the corner of the room, pressing himself back into it, staring around with wide eyes.]

Whispering, watchful, wakeful, wondering, where?

[He then spends a while patting things around him like the floor and wall, whispering under his breath.

In all honesty, he'll stay in that room until someone convinces him to leave and go elsewhere. It's not like he has to leave for any reason.]

Comments

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[ino]

There are a lot of people! Including you, I think we've just gone over eighty.

I think a lot of them could use a little bit of help.

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[killedwithlove]

It might take a while to help all those people. And I need to be able to get to where they are to help.

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[ino]

You will, soon! You should be placed on a ship by tomorrow, and then you'll be free to go wherever you'd like and see whoever you want.

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[killedwithlove]

But I'm on a ship. You said it. The Marvisa.

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[ino]

Yes, that ship is for new people, but it's not a place to stay. The ship you get assigned will be your new home.

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[killedwithlove]

It's where I'll live.

I don't have a home. I've never had a home.

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[ino]

[ Oh. Well. ]

I'm sorry.

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[killedwithlove]

Why?

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[ino]

I didn't mean to assume.

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[killedwithlove]

I don't understand. You're sorry because you thought I had a home, but I don't?

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[ino]

Well ... you seemed very intent on saying that you didn't. I thought ... it might be something that's difficult to talk about or upsetting.

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[killedwithlove]

No. It's just, it is. Home, hollow house, holy, I never had one. It simply is.

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[ino]

Would you like to have one, someday?

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[killedwithlove]

I don't know. I haven't had one. I don't know if I would like one. I just want to help people.

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[ino]

Are you a healer?

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[killedwithlove]

No. Not really. But, if I were with a spirit healer, I could help them to heal people.

[He rubs his face briefly, pushing up his hat and mussing his hair.]

I feel hurts and then I help them. Unpick the knots, untangle the threads, make it smooth, or start making it smooth.

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[ino]

I see ... so you can listen to their thoughts, then?

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[killedwithlove]

No. Yes. Sort of. I hear the hurts, the aches, the memories that are dark and angry and bittersweet like burned sugar.

Thoughts, thorough, through and through, thick and thin.

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[ino]

[ Interesting ... ]

You're a good person for wanting to help with those hurts.

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[killedwithlove]

No. I'm Compassion. I help people. I want to help them.

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[ino]

Wait, literally?

[ squints ]

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[killedwithlove]

I am Compassion. A spirit. But now I'm also Cole.

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[ino]

I see ...

[ She doesn't seem all that weirded out. Then again, she's met Delirium, and Death ... ]

Which one do you prefer to be called by, then?

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[killedwithlove]

Cole. I like Cole. It's more like a person.

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[ino]

Alright, then Cole it is.

I'm Ino, by the way! It's nice to meet you.