Higurashi aftermath

[sharpasafawkes]

[IN OUR LAST EPISODE Shaun and Cesare had a little trip down to the labs, if by "trip" we mean "a magical adventure full of torture-filled antics". Needless to say there's one historian laid up in a hospital bed, more or less asleep and bandaged like you wouldn't believe.]

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[maleborgia]

*drifting in and out, it's too early still to be properly back asleep, and then--*

Ah.

*very carefully sits up*

[sharpasafawkes]

[Sleepin' bird, sleepin', slightly featherless on the back bird.]

[maleborgia]

*...very, very softly pets*

[sharpasafawkes]

[this would be a happy little noise if, say, Shaun wasn't having a nightmare right about that.

So have one avian freakout, please]

[maleborgia]

*draws his hand back, upset and startled and maybe a little hit by those wings*

[sharpasafawkes]

[well it goes from freakout to "tiny little ball of shaking and feathers" in a few moments so. What do?]

[maleborgia]

*watching cautiously, then puts his hand out slowly and just barely touches Shaun on the wing*

Are you my bird? Or are you Shaun?

[sharpasafawkes]

[those quick breaths and terrified sounds seem pretty human]

[maleborgia]

*bends over so he is eye level with Shaun*

Are you all right?

[sharpasafawkes]

[All signs point to "no"]

Get away, please get away...

[maleborgia]

...

*lies down with his chin in his hands*

[sharpasafawkes]

[There's sheer terror here, words that could be cries of "not again" and him almost begging not to be hurt.

There's also a bit of something underneath the line of feathers, too ordered to be part of the burn]

[maleborgia]

*lying still!

and then cranes his neck a little to look at the bald area*

What happened? Were you plucked?

[sharpasafawkes]

[Yeah, that's writing, familiar too. Oh right, and a nasty mess of scar tissue from third degree chemical burns.]

God, just get it over with...

[maleborgia]

...I can't read all of it. Were you burned? Why is there writing on your back?

[sharpasafawkes]

[Just sounding wretched by this point]

Stop drawing it out! Please- ...Just please make it quick this time.

[maleborgia]

*just kind of looking at him for that :|a*

I don't understand what you mean. Wait a moment.

*gets up and walks into the adjourning bathroom, fills his hands with water and comes back, putting them in front of Shaun's beak*

Here. Drink this.

[sharpasafawkes]

...What's in it?

[maleborgia]

Water. I got it from the other room.

[sharpasafawkes]

Why?

[maleborgia]

Your voice was strange.

[sharpasafawkes]

-That's because you could kill me at any moment!

[maleborgia]

Why would I do that?

*most of the water has trickled through his fingers by now*

[sharpasafawkes]

Just look at you! You're massive compared to me, and let's be honest, you could snap my neck, not just could, would, will! The only way you won't is if you find a more entertaining way to murder me!

[maleborgia]

*shakes the rest of that water off onto the floor for someone else to deal with and picks up Shaun, hopping up into the chair with him and putting him in his lap.*

But I won't. See? *places his hand on Shaun's neck in what is clearly the best move ever made*