★ KATE

[doublefists]

the most precious little not on purpose serial killer

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Week 6, Thursday

[sootprints]

[ kate is coming to find vi!!! i hope she is in first aid. how is she looking. ]

[doublefists]

[ imagine she wasn't

no she's here! kate will hear a soft song, beautiful and incomprehensible, low and background in vi's thoughts every so often...

she's healing but her wounds are as follows: a large, deep claw mark from her shoulder down to her hip - if it was any deeper it might have done spinal damage. severely burned, across her face and under her clothes, and it looks like whatever explosion happened made her wounds fuse halfway shut, so that's... good? her right leg is completely shattered, she cannot use it at all right now. and she has... bites? like, not teeth bites. it looks more like a lot of very big spider bites. she's not stabbed anywhere thankfully. mostly it just looks like something or many somethings were trying to tear her apart.

vi is awake, curled up with a thin blanket that she pulls closer to hide the worst of it when kate wanders in. a beat, and then: ]

Hey, miss Kate.

[sootprints]

Vi!

[ she'll come over to see her. ]

How are you feeling? Do you need anything?

[doublefists]

[ WEEEEEHHH reaches for her a little. c'mere. she will hold out a hand. ]

No, no. I'm alright. They've got me set up. [ a little half-smile. ] Don't worry too bad.

[sootprints]

... Okay... I'll try.

[ she'll take that hand. ]

Can I ask about... what happened?

[doublefists]

[ holds her hand in a gentle but firm way. ]

... Yeah. [ a beat, and then: ] Wasn't too bad. We were these things called Grey Wardens. We fought off monsters to protect people.

[sootprints]

That sounds like something you'd be good at.

[ But I'm still worried... ]

[doublefists]

Hah. Yeah. I uh, didn't have much of a choice.

We had a whole city to protect. So... we did. [ lot different than the last one, but somehow that felt better. ]

[sootprints]

... You succeeded?

[ it doesn't sound like it could be that simple, though... ]

[doublefists]

I'm not actually sure.

[ ... ]

Think I died before we saw what happened. But we set the bomb off, at least.

[sootprints]

... Oh...

[ a little soot rises from her head. ]

They must have been terrible monsters...

[doublefists]

[ nooo the soot!!

she squeezes her hand gently. ]

They were. We held out for a long time, but you know how these things are. Odds were stacked against us. [ ... ] I'm okay. I made it.

[sootprints]

Right...

It's just... scary to think that we could have lost you again.

[doublefists]

[ silence, for a moment, and then: ]

I couldn't and wouldn't break a promise to you twice, kiddo.

[sootprints]

[ Vi... ]

...

[ she just keeps holding that hand. ]

[doublefists]

Anyway. I'll be okay. And we'll be together to the end this time, for real.