[IC: psychic backlash]

[al_for_one]

[Around the same time as this is happening Alain is lying snug in his bed, asleep.

And very suddenly, he's not sleeping anymore. Being psychic is usually a good thing, accidental spying on friends' intimate moments aside, but... not so much when it means feeling a loved one dying.

Yeah, so ITP: SUDDEN SCREAMING]

((In journal for TRAUMA!!1!

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[tis_allgood]

[several hours later... finally coming back, looking like hell]

[al_for_one]

[Also looks like hell, and launching himself at you.

NOT LETTING GO EVER]

B-Bert-- I-I-- Bert!

[Wailing and sobbing and very upset.]

[tis_allgood]

Ah! Owwww... Al!

[may be alive but isn't in great shape]

[al_for_one]

[Coherent enough to cling more gently but not letting go, or moving.

...also sobbing into Bert's shoulder.]

[tis_allgood]

May I at least sit? I'll still let thee cry on my shoulder.

[al_for_one]

[Sitting and pulling you with him. Tears streaming down his face.]

What-- Bert, you--

[Sobbing again.]

[tis_allgood]

I'm here, Al. I'm here.

[comforting as best he can]

[al_for_one]

I felt it. Oh Bert, it hurt and I was not there to help thee--

[As if remembering, checks the arm that was broken, very very worried.]

[tis_allgood]

[it looks bad, but it's not broken]

I cry your pardon, Al. I forgot the face of my father.

[al_for_one]

No, 'twas I. I had grown complacent. I thought little could harm us here. I--

[D: D: ;~;]

[tis_allgood]

You cannot possibly blame yourself for this. 'Twas truly my fault and mine only.

[al_for_one]

I swore I would ever watch your back but here I lay sleeping while something-- something... Gods, attacked thee and tore into thee and--

[He clearly doesn't know what exactly happened and is assuming Bert got jumped by some monster.]

[tis_allgood]

I let my own guard down. Do you truly think I could not defend myself should I be at my best?

[al_for_one]

I should have been there to help defend you! Had I been awake my touch--

[tis_allgood]

[a little frustrated]

So being Touch blind makes me a poorer gunslinger then?

[al_for_one]

No--

[...here comes the sobbing and clinging again]