text; un: loveless

[limbical]

On a professional level:
unless it's an emergency, I'm not currently handling patients at this time
so if you have a general check up or you're worried about a rash or something seek out one of the other doctors
great we've got that squared away

Non-professional question:
what's waiting for you back in your home?
Family, friends, saving the world, a hot date?
just a bit of curiosity on my side
Cheers

Comments

[limbical]

nothing I'm afraid anyone can rightly assist with
but if I can think of anything i'll let you know

Not sure about that one? What happened when you were in your world last, if you're willing to share?

[vecna]

Did something happen? Well, other than the obvious of what happened to nearly everyone.

[The nonsense with the mall. Even Henry was not immune to it.]

I'm willing, but it won't mean much. I mean it when I say I don't know how to answer it, because the transition itself was confusing. One minute, I'm in a lab, the next... I'm sent through what I can only assume is a portal, and met with a storm.

[This is the truth with all the sharp-edged filed off. But it's truth enough.]

[limbical]

Saw a familiar face, like pretty much everyone else. just kind of reminded me of what's waiting back in my world, I suppose. not something I'm excited to think about.

Huh.
fair enough. portal business is weird as hell. I guess it could be worse?

[vecna]

It could be worse. I could have found myself stuck in this city.

[There's some bleak humor for you.]

Not a pleasant face, then? Something similar happened to me, too. I'm starting to think this place is going out of its way to disarm us, just in small degrees at a time.

[limbical]

Shit
you aren't wrong though.

It's complicated, but I wouldn't have regretted never seeing it again, if that makes sense.

[vecna]

It does. But that seems to be the trend from what I've heard.

[He wonder what the case was with this man, though. Fear? Trauma? With Henry, it had been nothing more than a hot spike of anger searing through his mind when he saw that man from his past, standing there.]

What do you think the point was, though?

[limbical]

good question.

Maybe it was to gauge our reactions
see how we handled the stress of it. Would we become desperate? Lose our minds? something like that.
Assuming that the "this place is one big experiment" theory holds up

[vecna]

Personally, that's where I'd place my bets if we were making them. Though this place seems to put stress on... memory, and I think that situation with the mall has only made that clearer.

And memories are the fastest track to manipulating people. To scaring them, or making them desperate, like you said.

[limbical]

Memory and emotional manipulation. it checks out.

I almost wager it might be better if we don't dive head first into the first new place that opens up
but then we also might lose out on getting some decent clues. it's a conundrum, to say the least.

[vecna]

Oh, I don't mind it. I'll happily do it if others are too scared.

[Henry's just like this.]

I like sticking my nose in places where it doesn't belong.

[Probably the most honest thing he's ever said/written someone.]