pc catchall for wei wuxian (givethemhell)

[uncurtained]

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[givethemhell]

[Yeah he's not expecting her to look any better any time soon... RIP!! But he's still looking over her wound carefully anyway, brow furrowed in concern.]

Good... I was a little worried, especially after getting a look at that halberd. It was absolutely filthy.

[uncurtained]

...Yeah, I heard.

[Which - gross, but not as upsetting as the initial, uh, face slashing. Bad!]

I just - wish we had found them. You know? It's good we found one of them, but...

[givethemhell]

[He'd imagine nothing is as upsetting as the initial face-slashing!]

—I know. I wish we'd found more, too. The one that killed Muzet is just as much of a threat if not more so, given their, ah... attention to detail?

[The. The dolling up of the corpse and all the body part scavenging.]

[uncurtained]

That, and... Just how brutal it was.

[What's unspoken is how much it digs at her, not knowing who placed that weapon.]

I'm sure they'll act again.

[givethemhell]

Of course, and considering they got away with a method like this once...

[Hm. Yeah, he's betting they'll try it again - or at least something similar. Also, since they're thinking the same thing:]

Considering they were responsible for our elevator trap as well, it'll only make investigations more dangerous, too.

[uncurtained]

Yeah. No more opening doors without checking first.

[...]

Though I guess I should have been careful about that in the first place.

[givethemhell]

[Waving a hand! No!! No self-blame here!]

It's not as though anyone would have been able to anticipate a halberd being stowed away in the elevator. And now that we all know just what they can do in preparation for investigation, we can take our necessary countermeasures.

[uncurtained]

...Right.

[She looks grateful, even though the self blame will never leave. Anyways, after a few moments:]

By the way - can I ask who you voted for?

[givethemhell]

[Giving her a curious look! After a second of silence:]

—I withheld mine this time around, since I wasn't entirely convinced it was Illumi. [LOOK MAN IT SEEMED TOO OBVIOUS.] Why? Who did you end up voting for?

[uncurtained]

We've just been trying to figure out... Who might have left that one vote.

[She shrugs, though, lightly.]

Illumi. It seemed... more likely than the others.

[givethemhell]

[A little hum of agreement.]

It's not a bad idea, but I'm not so sure our dear friend would admit to being one of the four votes for Illumi so easily. That narrows it down to a one-in-four chance of it being caught, and we know someone out there is able to track down our possessed and exorcise them even outside of Sundays.

[uncurtained]

[She frowns.]

I mean... One of the votes looked wrong, right? How could anybody else's vote have looked like that?

[givethemhell]

Mm, that was certainly the vote of our dear friend! The one not currently trapped in the panthouse, who's quite upset about this turn of events, haha.

[He thinks it's hilarious...]

[uncurtained]

Then... We might be able to narrow it down somehow. Like, if more than one person says they chose the same burn, or we could narrow it down to everyone who says they didn't vote.

[givethemhell]

That's not a bad plan at all! Though it does seem like we had a large number who didn't vote this time around, considering Illumi himself only got four.

[They really... narrowly escaped disaster, didn't they. Damn.]

Well - if you'd like help asking around, I can, too.

[uncurtained]

I kind of wonder about that. I mean - I thought at first they had to be burns, but some people have been writing nice stuff. Maybe we don't have to leave a message at all.

[givethemhell]

--Do you know of anyone who's tried that? I've written something down every time I've voted so far.

[If she's right about that possibility, that's a big ol' hurdle chucked into their plan.]

[uncurtained]

...I don't know. I could ask Carlos if someone could do that.

[givethemhell]

Nothing to lose if you do, hm? Though I could ask too, if you need any more rest...

[He is still

very concerned. How's her wound looking today, anyway? Hopefully less angry and red than the day before, but now that he's seen the state of that halberd, infection is absolutely a concern even with Dick's nursing.]

[uncurtained]

[It looks less swollen! By now, she's changed from the white cloth that was held against it yesterday to, like, an actual bandage, so that's good.

Either way, she shakes her head.]

I can do it. I mean - unless you wanted to.

[She doesn't really want to worry him more by Not Resting, at least.]

[givethemhell]

I would prefer it if you could get all the rest possible...

[At least it looks better than it did yesterday BUT STILL. BIG WORRY, BIG WORRY ALL THE TIME. Granted, considering he knows how much it sucks to feel like you can't do shit:]

But I don't want to stop you from doing something you feel you should do.