68. [Video]

[justcautious]

[Chris, a man with very few mechanisms for coping with pain, has been pumped full of painkillers by the one doctor who bothered coming over to the police station. Which means he's more useless than usual, and high on painkillers, and has been so for a few days. He's been trying to check filing, and the easiest stuff he can be set on, but mostly he'

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[manofgnee]

...are you okay...?

[justcautious]

Huh?

[manofgnee]

You're acting really off...

[justcautious]

Oh. OH. S'this bloke, this doctor. Din't think....um....din't think I needed it, course, but 'e's the doctor, y'know, yeah?

Anyway, he put me on sommat, cos of the pain.

[manofgnee]

Pain? Wha...is everything okay, Chris?

[justcautious]

Oh aye, everythin's ok. S'jus' that bein' dead thing, yeah? That sort of....s'cos of dyin', y'see? Stabbed inna chest. Only....a lot. And without Ken's claw things or nothin'...

So I'm on a thing, now.

[manofgnee]

Oh...OH, god, you're suffering from the ghosting pains...why didn't you tell me?

[justcautious]

What? Oh, cos it weren't really important. I was dealin' with 'em.

[manofgnee]

It is so important! You should've told me!

[justcautious]

Um....no point in botherin' you about it, though, really........

[manofgnee]

Chris, we're friends. You get to bother me about anything.

[justcautious]

Don't want you thinkin' I'm a girl though...

[manofgnee]

Dude. I'm the one with the girl's name. If anything, it should be the other way around here.

[justcautious]

Well, um......y'know now, I s'pose?

[manofgnee]

You're no girl, man.

[justcautious]

Lucky y'think so, I s'pose.... You doin'....the.... You doin' alright with your stuff?