untrueheart | Act 5

[Under a darkening sky, Rue makes her way 'home', released from yet another kidnapping that she cannot remember. Somewhere along the way she located a broken branch, a few inches taller than she, to lean on while she walks; it helps offset a small limp and some troubling dizziness. Entering the village proper on its western side, she sighs at the length of walk that remains. Why does this happen every time? Why is she always as far away as possible?

Rue stops twice to rest: once in the rec center, and once on a bench near the fountain. By the time she reaches the plaza she's also shaking, and it is the mural around the fountain tiles that really shocks her into noticing her other problem.

Tired, shaking hands open her journal and she clears her throat into as prim and proper a tone as she can before speaking.]

Is there an- experiment going on at present?

['Experiment' absolutely drips with venom and distaste; with luck, it will be enough to hide all of her growing apprehension.]

[[ooc: action stuff and voicey stuff yes let's go WOW I haven't made a post in a very long time.]]

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Yes... [It seems like it's a bit of a struggle for him - he's not exactly in one piece himself. But he pushes himself up onto his knees and then climbs to his feet. And then he starts to wrinkle his nose.]

[Of course Rue is worried. She doesn't know how long she was gone, or whether Mytho's had to somehow fend for himself (but shouldn't Duck and Fakir have done something about it? They're not her favorite people but they at least care about Mytho's safety mots of the time) and if he ate at all or remembered to go back to the apartment to sleep.

So she reaches for his arm once he's standing, like she means to have him escort her home, but mostly for the closeness of his touch.]

[He takes her arm as she offers it. The feeling of affection. The arm helps him to steady himself even as he tries to support her at the same time. Mytho keeps his head in the present, not even thinking back to realize that he had been kidnapped as well. He wills simply follow Rue's lead now that they're both standing.]

We're going to your room. [It's so...wrong to look at him and not see his beautiful-empty golden eyes.] I don't know what else to do with you. Where are Duck and Fakir?

Act 5

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