[he is so focused on seeing to her injuries that he's not really going to flinch about the kigu removal?? whether she has clothes underneath it or not]
.... you don't need to be embarrassed about being upset.
[ not that anything ever stops hilda from being hilda, but something in the way she says it sounds like relief. he's seen worse from her. anyway, she only pull the kigu down to her waist, because the wounds are clustered around her shoulder: a rather deep puncture, and what looks like a large... bitemark?
.... well, it seems as though your wounds are a bit more... emotional, no?
[which, as far as he's concerned, is also pretty bad. but he'll watch her face carefully for a moment for changes in her expression as he continues to clean her injury before going to bandage it]
I don't think you need to hide how that may sting as well.
[ emotional wounds, huh...? they did look like a depressed disaster group walking back today, she supposes. she looks away as he gets to bandaging, her voice turning more melancholic. ]
Yeah... It's not even that I'm hiding anything, it's just... kind of hard to process what happened.
[ she pauses, like she's putting it together. ]
For starters, I know it's only been a few hours, but it also feels like it's been longer than that. Years. [ ... ] A decade, actually.
but soo-won will finish up taking care of her bandages then, helping her with her kigurumi back on so that it's not a hassle, and will wander over to the cabinet to also get some painkillers and some water for her to take them with.]
Ah.... well, that is a rather long time, and rather unexpected.
... is it too soon to ask what your child was like?
[like. realtalk it's been ten years with a child and now without so he can make a guess that this might not end the best way]
[ we had to sneak in some yuri before everyone killed off all the girls. anyway, that's a very sentimental question; hilda's expression turns thoughtful. ]
She's really, really studious and serious—at first she wouldn't even emote at us! And she'd get in trouble for being blunt, and people misunderstood her a lot when she was young... But it was their loss, because she was the most loving and capable girl in the entire village. At least they ended up realizing how great she was eventually...
[ she pauses in her rambling to smile a little, slanted. it's harder to put these feelings away than she'd expected—all the tasks they've had felt so... fake before, things that would just vanish like the pirate attack.
but this definitely lingers. ]
I thought we did our best to take care of her, but... I guess in the end it wasn't real anyway.
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You're too sweet—I could really go for some tea after the... day we've had.
[ and a nap, but she has something she should probably give him first. first things first, she starts taking off this dumb kigu. ]
I'm just embarrassed you saw me like that, honestly.
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.... you don't need to be embarrassed about being upset.
Least of all with me.
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[ not that anything ever stops hilda from being hilda, but something in the way she says it sounds like relief. he's seen worse from her. anyway, she only pull the kigu down to her waist, because the wounds are clustered around her shoulder: a rather deep puncture, and what looks like a large... bitemark?
they're gross, but not life-threatening. ]
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soo-won will move to get some antiseptic wipes and handle that then, cleaning the wound before bandaging it]
... there's no additional concerns past the injury itself, right? No risk of poison or infection...
[he's still trying to understand what they all went through]
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[ and she's not really careless enough to overlook a bite wound like that. she makes a face as he disinfects, though. ]
There was one really annoying monster, but I think a bite is the worst any of us got.
[ claire apparently was much worse, wow ]
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[which, as far as he's concerned, is also pretty bad. but he'll watch her face carefully for a moment for changes in her expression as he continues to clean her injury before going to bandage it]
I don't think you need to hide how that may sting as well.
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Yeah... It's not even that I'm hiding anything, it's just... kind of hard to process what happened.
[ she pauses, like she's putting it together. ]
For starters, I know it's only been a few hours, but it also feels like it's been longer than that. Years. [ ... ] A decade, actually.
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but soo-won won't actually say that, instead just focusing on finishing up her bandages.]
.... that would be disorienting.
If I may.... what were you tasked with doing?
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Um... there were these two kids. Hansa and Emet-Selch got one, and Alyssa and I had another.
[ if it sounds absurd it's because it is. ]
Our task, was to raise them until they became adults. So we were playing as their guardians since they were seven.
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but soo-won will finish up taking care of her bandages then, helping her with her kigurumi back on so that it's not a hassle, and will wander over to the cabinet to also get some painkillers and some water for her to take them with.]
Ah.... well, that is a rather long time, and rather unexpected.
... is it too soon to ask what your child was like?
[like. realtalk it's been ten years with a child and now without so he can make a guess that this might not end the best way]
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She's really, really studious and serious—at first she wouldn't even emote at us! And she'd get in trouble for being blunt, and people misunderstood her a lot when she was young... But it was their loss, because she was the most loving and capable girl in the entire village. At least they ended up realizing how great she was eventually...
[ she pauses in her rambling to smile a little, slanted. it's harder to put these feelings away than she'd expected—all the tasks they've had felt so... fake before, things that would just vanish like the pirate attack.
but this definitely lingers. ]
I thought we did our best to take care of her, but... I guess in the end it wasn't real anyway.
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.... but it's real to you, isn't it?
[he sounds thoughtful at that.]
What you all went through... It's still something that can't truly be taken from you, because it lives on in your hearts.