009 - No Place Like Home

[blacks_lackey]

[Turlough is completely still. You have to look closely to see that he's even breathing. His eyes are shut and he's not aware that his sphere is on. Even if he was, he wouldn't have reacted in the slightest

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[whodoyou_see]

[She's just watching. Silently. She doesn't understand what you're doing.]

[blacks_lackey]

[And Turlough isn't about to respond, even if he does sense he's being watched. He's too paralysed.]

[whodoyou_see]

[Well, the staring will continue for a few minutes longer, before she moves to prod him with the edge of her Keyblade. You're alive, why aren't you moving? Apparently her curiosity remained intact.]

[blacks_lackey]

[He jerks back at being prodded, glares at her and wipes his face with his entire sleeve.] What do you want? [It comes out as almost a growl. He doesn't want to acknowledge a world outside.]

[whodoyou_see]

[She doesn't say a word, satisfied now that he has moved, but she doesn't know about this crying thing so she's not leaving quite yet.]

[blacks_lackey]

Leave me alone. [He's blinking at new tears.]

[whodoyou_see]

[Well, that sounds like an order, one of the things she'll actually recognize. So she obeys and turns to leave. This was a fascinating conversation, I know.]

[blacks_lackey]

[Don't leave! But he's not going to say that, so instead he lets out a cough and starts crying even harder. Ha!]

[whodoyou_see]

[She's not very good at deciphering non-verbal communication, but she does pause a few feet away to look back at him when he's crying harder.]

[blacks_lackey]

[He's slipping down to the floor, not finding strength in his legs.] What's the point?

[whodoyou_see]

[She's staying several feet away, since he did tell her to go, but she's turned back around now, watching again. If she could talk and think, she might be asking what he was talking about.]

[blacks_lackey]

[And since he's on the floor anyway, he makes the split second decision to crawl under his bed.]

[whodoyou_see]

[Well, ok, that confuses her enough to forget the previous order and she kneels down to look under the bed. It's dark, maybe there are Heartless.]

[blacks_lackey]

[Or maybe there are Vashta Narada, who would do him the favour of eating him in the space of a couple of seconds. No such luck, though, as evinced by the gasping underneath.]

[whodoyou_see]

[Xion's still very confused, so you're being poked with a Keyblade again. Maybe you're a heartless. There are ones that look like people.]

[blacks_lackey]

Stop that! I don't need to be poked by you, it's not about to make me feel better!