givethemhell: (take my hand and paint it green)
wei "tomthottery" wuxian ([personal profile] givethemhell) wrote in [personal profile] successives 2020-06-30 08:36 am (UTC)

[There's something terrible about experiencing someone else's last moments.

He's done it before, even in his home world. Invented a technique - Empathy - which allows the user to do just that. To take a spirit into their own body, to experience that life through their own eyes and skin. It's never easy. Each time the hammer comes down, the sword pushes forward, the dagger drops, the last breath draws, he's launched back into his own body feeling deeply unsettled.

But he breathes, and he rights himself. It's not his memory, and it's not his death. It's not his right to see, but he's seen it anyway and he can't take that back. A lot of good dropping the topic earlier had done for them, hm?]


... [Calm, again. Careful, soft. He holds a hand her way.] Do you need to sit?

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