heaven pcs: anders

[fending]

go down to my alphabetized filter list looking for anders and he's halfway down the column... why do we have so many A names

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[spiritbalm]

[ well he said something there that is, uh, distressing. ]

Facility?

[fending]

Oh.

[ somehow he'd kind of thought that had come up before. ]

Yeah. Spent some years as test subjects at a facility where they did experiments with igniters — magic devices. We were too young for the army to take us back then, so at the time, it didn't seem like it'd be the worst way to make a living.

[ turned out it was. ]

[spiritbalm]

It sounds like absolutely the worst way to make a living.

[ that is so indelicate, but. ]

You've both left since, then?

[fending]

[ why is this conversation about him now, he was just relating to your experience. i guess he is still holding cat figurines. ]

Yeah, well. They knew how to sell it to hungry kids in the slums. Roof over your head and regular meals was more than we were gonna get doin' anything else.

[ the outlook for paripus orphans is fucking bleak. but he nods. ]

Been over ten years. Bas got hurt real bad in one of the experiments, and I just barely managed to sneak out with him during a riot. Thankfully this healer in the city saw me out there carryin' him, half dead, and helped without askin' for nothin' in return. Both of us'd be long gone if it weren't for her.

[spiritbalm]

[ he is holding cat figurines and telling a very sad story about children and healers in a city that chews up orphans and eats them for fuel. this is still relatable. ]

You've been looking out for him for a long time.

[fending]

Sure been tryin' to, anyway.

[ smash cut to thursday ]

[spiritbalm]

I think you've been doing your job if you've followed him all the way here.

[ and you can't always follow them through every trial and tribulation. smash cut to thursday. ]

It's good you're here together. Despite the circumstances.