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i'm a healer, but... /cocks gun [ nehan ] ([personal profile] torpour) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-04-05 11:02 pm

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Who: Nehan and Diluc
What: Chatting about those they have lost, and Diluc's impending beasthood.
When: Early April
Where: Their usual field for training and punching each others' lights out.

Content Warnings: Beasthood talk, loss, an offer for mercykilling. Others TBA.





[the look on diluc's face is all nehan needs to know about how he feels, then the erune sighs, and sits down on the fallen log he's been favoring as a seat every time they have a meeting out here, then pats the spot next to him for diluc to sit as well. his omen, zuo, flops down underneath nehan's feet like a large, warm footstool for the erune.]

You're still feeling the weight of losing Flynn and Yuri, aren't you?

It's all right to take a break every once in a while. [even if that's not nehan's philosophy. he prefers to work, because there's very rarely a time that he actually has emotions or deep, painful thoughts to get in the way of anything. that's... that's a recent addition to his repertoire, but he could pause in his spiraling to have his student lean on him.]
searingwing: (I'm on another broken avenue)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-09 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn’t make a noise at the man handling and touching him gets a bit of darkness on Nehan himself. Like an oily residue. It fades quickly on the fingers as Diluc says,]. This first step.

Yes, but none of the texts say that the corruption effects indicate exactly what someone becomes as a beast. It could be something different. That is why I’m not sure. It is highly likely I will be an owl. But, we’ll see.
searingwing: (An empty mirror)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-09 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Diluc shakes his head. Ever the lord who is trying to consider all angles. And he has that thoughtful look on his face he always gets when charting a path forward.] I’m not ignoring you. I’m worried we only have so much information. The shedding threw so much off.

…and I once took up a tool of darkness. The shadows were a prelude to dark flames. I don’t know how much of it still exists as scars on my soul.
searingwing: (only fate's left to decide)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-11 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
…and true. [Whatever else he was going to stay is cut off with a low hiss as the sting becomes his focus. The feathers are darkness.

But hidden in the depths of that darkness in every feather is a flame that burns hot and bright. As if one might indeed hide the other. The shape of the other feather hidden within is more like an eagle’s feather.]
searingwing: (pic#15382669)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-14 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Diluc digs his fingers into his own thighs and hisses. As Nehan tugs, beneath the coating of black metal and darkness each feather flares with heat. Not enough to burn but it does up the temperature around Diluc.

But the feather does come free with a bit of blood. Diluc claps his hand over the spot to keep the blue blood at bay.]
searingwing: (I'm wide awake)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-18 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
If I could control it. I would. [Diluc breathes as he moves his hand away. He’s like a wounded bird, watching the one who did it with sharp eyes. There is no hostility in him, just a focused stare.]
searingwing: (I'm on another broken avenue)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-19 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
It is acting on its own and slowly consuming the magic within me. [Diluc says as he holds still. His hands clench on his legs and unclench to distract himself from the sting where the feather was.]

I feel it like poison in a wound. Any trying to grasp it is like holding smoke.
searingwing: (pic#14902142)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-19 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright. Should anything else occur with further corruption between meetings. I’ll let you know.

[He sighs as he starts to get up. He still feels awful. All the things that occurred. He adds quietly,]

Again, thank you. It eases my heart to know I will taken care of should I lose this battle.
searingwing: (I'm on another broken avenue)

[personal profile] searingwing 2022-04-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I received an item from surviving the jungle. I looked into it and it will be a way to buy that time.

[Diluc says as he lifts his arm and Dellingr appears. The dragon settles with a soft sigh as the Lord Ragvindr continues to walk away.] But, I will ask for help from others. The more time bought, the better.