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3rd sketch - [written - BACKDATED TO THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 21ST]

Oct 25, 2011 02:17

[For the most part, it's been pretty easy to pretend nothing happened. No one asks, and Jeb kept to himself for the days following it. Unfortunately, that doesn't really change the fact that he was physically assaulted by someone he doesn't even know about a month ago ( Read more... )

jeb stop hiding things, *nadoka, nightmares for the lose, *anise, *emil, *raine, it took him a month to ask wtf, mithos-inflicted trauma, *hikari, dreaming about mithos for the lose

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[written] wise_maiden November 2 2011, 17:33:54 UTC

[Hm. This is a subject she's familiar with.]

Have you been having them for a long time?

[written] sketchingideals November 2 2011, 17:50:08 UTC

Not very long, just about a month.

[But with the intensity of the nightmares, a month is probably far too long.]

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 2 2011, 17:56:17 UTC

[There's a pause and an overheard 'hmm', as she adds a lock on to the messages. Particularly after catching a snatch of his talk with Anise-]

I see... so this isn't something that's was exactly common for you before arriving here?

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 2 2011, 18:01:29 UTC

No, not really. I mean, I would have nightmares sometimes, but they would never be like these ones.

[As he writes that, he feels some phantom pain along his wings.]

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 2 2011, 18:26:53 UTC

Well, I can think of a couple of ways that might help. One would be to find someone to talk about the problem with. As long as you make an attempt to do that, you wouldn't just be hiding from the issue.

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 2 2011, 18:37:28 UTC

[That makes him pause and think before he responds, and when he does respond, it's with a question:]

Do you think I'm hiding from it?

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 2 2011, 18:41:32 UTC

Hm? I only offered a suggestion. As to whether or not you were... the fact that you have to ask me says a lot, doesn't it?

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 2 2011, 18:46:37 UTC

Well, I'm not sure. Maybe it does say a lot. What happened was probably my fault anyway, so I guess I really haven't wanted to talk about it much.

[He can't help but wonder if that just makes him more pathetic than he already is.]

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 2 2011, 19:47:11 UTC

Somehow, I doubt that it was your fault. [Which makes it a bit more worrisome.] There are dangers here, even if it doesn't seem like it. They're not all avoidable.

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 2 2011, 19:53:43 UTC

Well, I guess.

[Another pause.]

Miss Sage? Have you ever tried to help someone, but they reacted badly to it?

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 3 2011, 02:32:38 UTC

Was that what happened?

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 3 2011, 03:06:56 UTC

Yeah. I was walking around the village, and I saw someone who looked really upset. So I walked up to them to see what was wrong, but they acted so angry about it, and

[He stops right there, unsure if he should go any further than that. The boy he had talked to that day had given him such a beating, and Jeb didn't even know his name.]

I just wanted to help him, Miss Sage--I don't understand.

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 3 2011, 04:18:50 UTC

[There's something about the description...

There's a pause, before she writes. She doesn't want to make any assumptions, but.]

Sometimes people don't want to be helped. It's... unfortunate, but it happens. Especially if their personalities aren't exactly stable.

This person... could you describe them for me?

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 3 2011, 04:36:52 UTC

He was around my height, with blond hair--ended right below the shoulders, I think? His eyes were blue, and [another long, hesitant pause before continuing:] I've never seen that kind of intense anger in anyone's eyes before, until I saw it in his.

[Unfortunately, describing Mithos' physical traits causes a knot in Jeb's stomach to form, makes him want to pull his knees up to his chest and holds himself. Makes him fear being all by himself, because it makes him remember too many details about what happened.

Pathetic.]

[written | locked] wise_maiden November 3 2011, 05:58:33 UTC

That's someone you need to stay away from. [The hair, the eyes, the anger. Yes, she knows that description all too well. He can't see it, but she clenches a fist in her lap for a moment before finishing her written sentence.] Did you go to one of the clinics after?

[written | locked] sketchingideals November 3 2011, 06:03:00 UTC

[...so she knew, with what little he had actually said about what happened, that he had been hurt. There's a knot in Jeb's throat, staring at his journal before writing down a simple response, slightly worried that he might be lectured for it:]

I didn't.

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