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D ([personal profile] distant_one) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-07-19 06:48 pm (UTC)

D has in fact had many years of experience of people who want something from him he can't give. To be an older brother, or a lover, a member of a community or a teacher or fisherman. Some of them he could do if he wanted, and might even enjoy, but he could never give up the goals he was pursuing. This time in Trench is just a short break for him.

"I'm not sure how well your mind has all the sensory information from my memories, but an easy way to tell you're remembering one of mine is hearing heartbeats or breathing patterns. I usually keep count of them." Not always, sometimes D has to put all his attention on something else and leave himself vulnerable to being snuck up on. If Gaia gained only the information he was aware of at the time of a memory it won't be consistent as D has to tune out a lot of what comes in through his enhanced senses. "The pain from sunlight too."

But there's a difference between sorting out the memories themselves and the knowledge and influence caused by those memories. The preference for tea without sugar or cream, his preference for bitter flavors. "In addition to writing it down... some of the heartbeat and other physical control exercises might help, if you remember them."

They're in D's memories after all, and he's a master of them and they're part of what has given him such precise awareness of his own physical state at any moment.

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