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Valour 5: I still don't think it's a good idea for me to be there unless Luther says so explicitly
Valour 5: But you can come to taisho

Caeli: I am feeling similarly to your brother... all of Wild City is. Most of us are bound to another person and leaving them is... not really an option. I’ve already dragged him all over and he should probably rest, so I don’t think going anywhere is really a good idea.

Valour 5: My fiancé is under a similar condition so I'm aware of how it works
Valour 5: But I still think it's best I don't get there unless invited
Valour 5: You can call me if you'd like.

[ a few minutes pass and then... ring ring. ]

[ he actually answers immediately ]

Well?

...so you guys not really get along all that well or something? Is that the reason you're hesitating? [ he sounds like he just ran a mile or something. breathing ragged and uneven. ]

Thought you called to talk about yourself, not about my family.

[ grumbles. ] But I want you to make me some soup this time around. I think I deserve it. [ he's purposely being extra whiny. ]

But what is there to talk about? How shit I feel, ..? I haven't been able to rip my arm off my side and it's been doing nothing but causing me severe pain since I got back. [ grunts, legs trembling as he sinks down against a wall in the hall on his way back to his room. ]

You said it's fused to your side, I doubt ripping it off is going to be something you can do on your own.

You need someone to numb the pain, someone to cut you open, and someone to heal it. This isn't something you can do on your own Mora.

You already sound fatigued just by — whatever it is you're doing right now.

... [ he's not interested in letting someone else look at him and start cutting him apart. but he can't answer right now, because he's seeing things he shouldn't. the abyss... he hates that it's coming back to haunt him. he made it out and IT NEEDS TO STOP. he huffs, smushing his palm straight into his face. ] I'm just heading to my room. I think I need to... lay down...

[ He doesn't want to go to wild city but now he's getting worried. Why can't he actually not give a shit when he says he doesn't give a shit ]

Is there a reason you don't want to do what's logically the obvious smart thing to do here and get yourself looked by someone who can help?

You were quiet for a while there.

I don't want to have to rely on another unit and you said this shouldn't last more than a couple of days, right, so... [ and it's a matter of pride. stupid stupid stupid pride. ] I'm seeing things I shouldn't be capable of seeing. It must be another effect of the game. [ shuts his eyes. ] ...this is infinitely worse than the physical pain. It's interfering with everything. I can't think straight.

[ oh so it's that sort of status effect ]

I said so but if you're in severe pain waiting it out is ridiculous. Though I understand not wanting to rely on other Units. The less favor you owe the better.

Can you turn into an animal that doesn't have, well. Limbs that would be fused to your chest?

As for your condition. I experience something similar more or less regularly and Alexander had to deal with it recently as well. Is there something that triggers those vision in particular? A smell, a sound, things like that.

...exactly. [ huffs, and then starts heaving a moment later as he swears he sees one the enormous abyssmal beasts that had threatened to kill him when he had thought himself lost. his heart starts hammering in his chest and for a moment it's all he can hear. something like that won't kill him. he's strong now, and still getting stronger. ] ...h- hah, and this isn't exactly something I may not be capable of fixing on my own. It's not like I'm full of cement.

...

I could try it. [ he's going to turn into a big fucken snake, so five will hear him hitting the floor with a thud. the phone also hits the floor... and then childe is just going to start freaking out, because he might not have arms anymore but he's bent and fused and just thrashing around because WHY!!! ]

[ sorry, five, he can't hear you above the panic. ]

... Did you try it now? Are you still there Mora?

[ HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON ]

Jesus maybe I should send a text to one of your unitmates...

I turned into a snake! since snakes don't have arms, but it didn't work. It didn't work and now my face is connected to my body and I can't move right and fuck it hurts. What if I change back and I've made it worse?! [ he's still thrashing about like, ok, maybe NOW he can just rip himself apart and be fine. fine... er. ]

[ WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOW HIS FACE IS CONNECTED TO HIS BODY WHAT KIND OF EFFECT IS THAT!!! THAT'S FUCKED UP!!! ]

No that wouldn't make sense, just go ahead and change back Mora. If it got worse then I can draft a contract to take away your sense of pain for a few days.

N- No! I'm not risking that! I can deal with being a snake ball and not some human pretzal-! [ no he can't he hates this. ] W- What?! You can do that?! Make a contract with me then! take the pain away so I can just... severe the connection myself!!

I can't do a contract on the phone Mora. And it requires your signature. So if you want a contract you have to be human again.

Really starting to feel like you're not exactly lucid right now.

I can sign like this! I'm still me. It's not like I'm not me, Five. Just... my tail, I can hold the pen with my tail. I don't need to be human! [ childe snatches his phone up and starts meandering back into his room. ] You have to come to Wild City then. Just sneak in. I can sneak you in. [ no... he can't. he's freaking out and being loud af, so there's no way he could get him in without making a big fucken stink about it. ]

[ he goes silent for a few minutes after that, hissing at... something? no, it's nothing, but he seems agitated and begins snapping at the air, mumbling in another language under his breath. ]

[ Can he even sneak into Wild City, that seems disrespectful toward Luther and the rest of the team, regardless of whether he's being asked to or not. But eventually ]

I'm not sneaking into the dorm. But I'll come to the balcony. Meet me there.

[ He should never have shown any amount of care it never goes well. Why did he. He should know better. He knows better. But here he is turning off the call and heading out ]

[ he's delirious and about half a second from begging... but five relents and agrees to meet him on the balcony. he's got to calm his shit enough to attempt to get there without making a scene, but that's easier said than done. he's going to be a little... late, but eventually he squirms his way out there. ]

[ childe is currently a big. fucken. snake. LIKE HUGE. and he's curled in on himself, scales fused together around his head, neck, and the start of his long ass body. his fatui mask is still sitting on the side of his head, but it's cracked in a number of places and severely damaged. it looks like it could fall apart any moment. ]

Five-!

What part of "I think it's best Luther doesn't see me" was lost on you? Keep it quiet and don't call my name out loud.

Before I actually give you the contract to sign. Effects like that don't come for free and you will have to pay a price of equal worth in order to see the effects. If you break the contract you'll suffer consequences for it.

And I will not allow you to rip yourself open without someone to heal you in the room, debt or not.

...sensei then. [ ofc. ] I'm no stranger to contracts. [ his not!boyfriend is the god of contracts. ] What are you looking for then, and what kind of consequences?

You can help me, no? I can get a med kit. I'm sure we have one in the bathroom.

Consequences that would make what you are receiving in exchange worth it.

[ He's going to just lay down the piece of paper he wrote down so Childe can read it. It completely takes away his sense of pain in exchange for only speaking truth. If he lies at any point, the contract is broken and pain will instead be felt twice over. The contract does also have a clause that Childe can't inflict any harm onto himself without another person being in the room. Otherwise still double pain. ]

You being a cagey bastard was the only thing worthwhile I could think of given our last encounter. But it does talk about lies. Hiding or deflecting, or half-truths, are fine.

And I am not coming inside the dorm and helping you cut yourself open.

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