rondo's brain to mouth filter is not very strong so this is just a sentence he'd say anyway, but!! he goes back to plucking out first aid supplies. yaaay... ]
I'm glad we got a place like this, finally. Famine gave me a bunch of first aid books and techniques to practice, so I feel like maybe we have enough supplies now that I can actually practice.
Right. Famine said it might be helpful to learn emergency procedures, like tourniquets, in case someone ends up coming out of the fog far away from the swamp, and... I don't want you or Alfyn to be stretched too thin...
[ there's a nod and a smile to that. yay spare supplies!!! thank god!!! ]
Plus, the gods forbid we have another situation like we did with Miss Aqua.... we'll need as many hands on deck as possible, just in case.
[ ...Good thing I didn't jump off the cliff on Saturday....
he
doesn't say out loud, ]
I'm glad to hear that, at least. [ maybe if he ignores the thoughtshare it won't get noticed. anyway. ] I think... one of the things that heartens me the most is how everyone's really banded together. We've tried really hard to support each other's strengths and weaknesses, no matter what this place throws at us.
[ he looks down at his hands now that he's not being scolded, with a little smile. ] Even with the temptations offered by that awful swamp, it's... nice, to be surrounded by the kind of people that we are. It's a light to hold on to.
[ There's an aura-slash-indistinct thought about how the standards for 'favourite' are really skewed and terrible in this place, but he doesn't say it out loud. ]
he reaches up and absently touches a hand to his heart. ]
Mm. It's those little things that really matter, you know? Miss Asa said... one more reason to live. Even if it's a tiny thing, it's one more reason to wake up and see the next day. So... I try to see those, when I can.
[ indomitably an optimist. indomitably, despite everything, the light in the dark. ]
[ It's nice that Rondo can find the light in those things to keep going. Daan doesn't disagree, but it's less about finding hope in them, and more like things that keep him going. ]
[ That's what happened to Sir Sazantos. the thought echoes but he pays it no mind. ]
So long as I live, my Flame can't truly be extinguished. I won't let it. And besides - if I can hold onto those things, then I can share them with others, too, and maybe be a light in the darkness. It's all I could ask for.
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[ He just didn't want Rondo to feel like he had to be polite at him but it's actually having the opposite effect it seems. ]
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[ It's just hard because I respect him so much.
rondo's brain to mouth filter is not very strong so this is just a sentence he'd say anyway, but!! he goes back to plucking out first aid supplies. yaaay... ]
I'm glad we got a place like this, finally. Famine gave me a bunch of first aid books and techniques to practice, so I feel like maybe we have enough supplies now that I can actually practice.
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[ They've got stuff to spare. Yay! ]
Picking up the doctoring slack, are we...? Guess we must all be tired of the swamp by now and learned our lessons from the tree.
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[ there's a nod and a smile to that. yay spare supplies!!! thank god!!! ]
Plus, the gods forbid we have another situation like we did with Miss Aqua.... we'll need as many hands on deck as possible, just in case.
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[ It's already hard enough with everything else. ]
It hasn't been awful, workload-wise.
[ Had more patients back in the day... and the front's a whole thing... ]
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he
doesn't say out loud, ]
I'm glad to hear that, at least. [ maybe if he ignores the thoughtshare it won't get noticed. anyway. ] I think... one of the things that heartens me the most is how everyone's really banded together. We've tried really hard to support each other's strengths and weaknesses, no matter what this place throws at us.
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I heard that. Let's not do that.
[ Completely ignores Rondo's motivational speech for a hot minute just to establish this.
I'll kill you. ]
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Yes, sir.
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...The overwhelming majority has been surprisingly cooperative with each other, yeah.
Surprisingly nobody's died out of pure human violence or paranoia.
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[ he looks down at his hands now that he's not being scolded, with a little smile. ] Even with the temptations offered by that awful swamp, it's... nice, to be surrounded by the kind of people that we are. It's a light to hold on to.
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Mingling despite the circumstances. Finding a way to crack smiles and laughter through it all.
It's commendable enough.
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...Exactly. [ heh. ] It's my favorite thing about this place.
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You take what you can get around here...
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he reaches up and absently touches a hand to his heart. ]
Mm. It's those little things that really matter, you know? Miss Asa said... one more reason to live. Even if it's a tiny thing, it's one more reason to wake up and see the next day. So... I try to see those, when I can.
[ indomitably an optimist. indomitably, despite everything, the light in the dark. ]
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Simple things.
[ It's nice that Rondo can find the light in those things to keep going. Daan doesn't disagree, but it's less about finding hope in them, and more like things that keep him going. ]
Let's hope you don't ever lose sight of it all.
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[ That's what happened to Sir Sazantos. the thought echoes but he pays it no mind. ]
So long as I live, my Flame can't truly be extinguished. I won't let it. And besides - if I can hold onto those things, then I can share them with others, too, and maybe be a light in the darkness. It's all I could ask for.