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Tuuri Hotakainen ([personal profile] polyglotti) wrote2023-02-05 07:14 pm
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-06 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[She finds him wearing his full garb and shroud. At those words, he shrugs.]

It's usually demons. Demons love misery.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-06 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? [He's a little taken aback.] Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-06 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
What...?

[He doesn't fully follow.]

No, this is just to keep people from staring at my face.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-06 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
... You're fine.

It's been less of a problem here than it normally is.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-06 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe. But if that's the only reason I'm not being treated like a monster, it doesn't exactly make me feel better.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-07 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Here? No. Back home? Show my face in the wrong town, and they start sharpening their pitchforks.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-07 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Guess not.

[It's hard to tell with the shroud, but it does seem like his expression just softened a bit.

Then, something occurs to him.]


... What were you saying about masks earlier?
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-07 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
... Was there a sickness going around, where you're from?
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-08 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh... I see.

I just came from a kingdom that was dealing with a plague, so that was the first thing to come to mind.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-08 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[A nod.]

Wherever there are people, there's bound to be sickness... I suppose.
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[personal profile] hardrocklife 2023-02-08 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Guess even Hell has a silver lining.

... Best not to give the demons any ideas, though.