sheep_game | Myngle

We should be thanking all of you for watching out for it. You were all on it right away.

[ a lil shrug. ]

It's not my first time dealing with amnesia. Cepheus, uh. Was a little more aggressive when he couldn't remember me.

Wait, when did he forget you?

-- not here. Back home. It was earlier this year.

[ last year? whatever. ]

I'm guessing you were able to fix it then. But were you okay? It sounds like it was rougher for you guys.

It ... mostly sorted itself out? Mostly it was hard watching him act like that without being able to tell him anything. I'm pretty sure he hated me for a while there.

[ grimaces ]

I definitely hated Scarab for a little while during it.

Yeah. You get what I mean.

... how's he doing in there?

He's...uh. Calming down. He didn't have really clear memories of what happened after our last fight, so he's been running medical scans on me this whole time.

[ oh. oh no. poor scarab. ]

Last fight here, or last fight back home...?

Back home. It, uh. Ended when Scarab performed a hard reboot to force a bunch of enemy scarabs to also reboot while we were all a couple hundred miles up.

[ UH

Kevin quickly looks alarmed at that. ]

That last part - it all went by so quick I couldn't tell what was happening - did you survive that?

[ he's frantically looking Ananke over for any fresh death stains. ]

[ No new death stains! Just the same trio of old deaths he's already been revived from ]

Barely. They thought I was gonna be in the hospital for, like, a year before Scarab woke up enough to heal most of the damage.

[ He is not going to stay out of space ]

[ good. okay. that's a good start. Kevin relaxes, nodding a bit. ]

I don't see any new death marks. Just the usual ones.

... You can see death marks?

-- oh. Uh - yeah.

[ he flusters? shit, is this weird,

He takes an awkward lil step closer, and gestures with -

wait. ]

It's hard to describe. I can try to illusion it for you?

Sure...? As long as it's not, like, super realistic or anything.

It's not what you're picturing.

[ he gestures and - well this is his first time using illusions so it is WOBBLY? but also unrealistic, as promised. little black tendrils of smoke appear on Ananke's chest, centering around his heart but spreading out from there. More little black spots imitate ragged scars/holes, as if Ananke had been torn apart by vines. More shadows follow lichtenberg figures along his neck and down his arms. The deepest shadows pool in the very center of Ananke's chest, as if there were a giant hole there. ]

They're old. But ... it looks like you were torn apart, and blew up, and then - uh - the last one's the oldest and it's not super clear, but I think maybe you were struck by lightning?

[ Even though it's only shadows, he sucks in a sharp breath and holds it for a long moment ]

Uh...kind of. It was a regular electrocution. I needed to play possum, but like...for real.

Oh.

[ Yeah okay that tracks better. He just couldn't tell because it was all over.

Anyway he sees that discomfort and quickly dismisses them. ]

Why - why'd you have to do that?

[ scrubs a hand through his hair to funnel off a little of that nervous energy ]

We were fighting this guy that we couldn't keep up with. He had this move that Scarab couldn't figure out how to counter, and it was really fucking me up. I'd have been burned to a crisp if Scarab hadn't taken me out instead. There wouldn't have been any bringing me back from that.

... So you shocked yourself and made him think you were dead so he'd leave?

No, Scarab literally killed me so he'd leave. He gave me adrenaline and some of those heart shocks to bring me back after.

Did he warn you he was gonna do that?

No.

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