[ In here, it's mostly just the door back to the hallway and the door to the centre/panic room. But in the hallway there had been multiple. Reassembly will take a long time.
The Assistant, meanwhile, cocks his head. ]
I think so. I think ... huh. I think I feel them, sort of.
[ The Assistant has a few more splotches of colour now: a hint of red in his hair, the suggestion of blue behind his glasses, and the overall sense that he isn't simply seethrough any more.
He reaches a hand out to the Archivist. ]
You're freezing. Allow me...?
[ He can't reduce the cold, but he can make it a gentle, comforting thing. ]
[ The Assistant takes it, then, and the sensation of being frigid stops. It shifts to a gentle, comforting sort of chill, like being outside on an autumn day. ]
You need to get home for now. Rest and recharge yourself.
[It feels better. Even as the green becomes more visible, more pronounced. No question that they were hands that touched him. But he watches the Assistant. He doesn't mean for his voice to come out so soft and worried.]
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Date: 2024-01-05 11:40 am (UTC)The Assistant, meanwhile, cocks his head. ]
I think so. I think ... huh. I think I feel them, sort of.
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Date: 2024-01-05 11:46 am (UTC)Let's take a look, then.
[And they go through two or three more. Jon the Archivist arriving and talking to each one and bringing them back with his Assistant.
There are more doors waiting, but his eyes ache and he's freezing.]
I think- that might be all for now. W-we can come back.
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Date: 2024-01-05 11:55 am (UTC)He reaches a hand out to the Archivist. ]
You're freezing. Allow me...?
[ He can't reduce the cold, but he can make it a gentle, comforting thing. ]
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Date: 2024-01-05 11:56 am (UTC)He takes the hand, carefully closing his fingers around the Assistant's.]
Please. thank you.
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Date: 2024-01-05 11:58 am (UTC)You need to get home for now. Rest and recharge yourself.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:00 pm (UTC)[It feels better. Even as the green becomes more visible, more pronounced. No question that they were hands that touched him. But he watches the Assistant. He doesn't mean for his voice to come out so soft and worried.]
Are you coming with me?
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:02 pm (UTC)... Of course. An Archivist needs his Assistant.
[ And then, spoken coldly enough to freeze blood, though not Jon's: ]
Someone needs to make sure no one else ever touches you like that again.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:10 pm (UTC)Oh.
I... Yes. I was... actually on my way to dispose of the one who did this when I ran into this domain.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:15 pm (UTC)[ he'll KILL them he'll kill them he'll kill them - ]
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:17 pm (UTC)He's at the Panopticon, waiting for me to get there.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:18 pm (UTC)Him?
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:21 pm (UTC)The one who started all this.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:22 pm (UTC)I'll help you do it.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:26 pm (UTC)I was prepared to try by myself, but. I think the two of us will be able to do it.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:28 pm (UTC)[ His expression softens. ]
He might hurt you again.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:31 pm (UTC)...He probably would. But he'd be dead.
I'd feel better with you there, I think.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-05 12:35 pm (UTC)Yes. We will. For all of us.
[Tim and Sasha, Gertrude, Gerry... All of them. The entire world.]
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:36 pm (UTC)Then what are we waiting for?
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:38 pm (UTC)To make sure we don't have any unfinished business here.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:39 pm (UTC)... We can come back. I know how to find my way here.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:42 pm (UTC)Then we'll come back after he's dead.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:43 pm (UTC)[ A brittle little chuckle. ]
After we murder him.
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Date: 2024-01-05 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-05 12:46 pm (UTC)Lead on, then.