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[p2iioniicii2t]

A system memory error has occurred.
The Helmsman system suffered a fatal error.
Twoday iit would be iideal two avoiid the plaza fountaiin untiil iit iis completely fiiltered.
However, the blood iin the water iis not actiively harmful.
IIt iis merely iinsaniitary.
Apologiies for the iinconveniience.

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[p2iioniicii2t]

[ Psii isn't quite able to process what he sees when Signless first bursts out of the hive, frozen wide-eyed. It horrifies him into inaction, but he wraps an arm around him when the other troll collides against him. ]

What..? [ His soft voice is thick. ] Thignlesth?

[ He doesn't even recognize that he's crying, tears streaming down his face. ]

[onlyasign]

[This isn't the first time in their relationship that Sufferer has clung to Psii and wept on his shoulder, but it is definitely the first time in Vatheon. Dimly, he's aware that psionics are holding them both up, but he just assumes they're Psii's.]

I'm so sorry, Psii, I'm so sorry... this is all my fault, everything is my fault...

[thekidsare0kay]

[Wow, awkward. Sollux is just going to stand here, looking around for anyone who might interrupt and need their ass kicked - like Dualscar - and totally feel like a third wheel while Psiioniic and Signless get their reunion out of the way]

[p2iioniicii2t]

Pleathe, pleathe do not.

[ He holds him close-- as tight as he can, not that it says much given his current state. His expression, however, is stricken as he looks over Sufferer's shoulder to Sollux. ]

Our thtatuth will improve within Vatheon.

[onlyasign]

[It's only the begging of his oldest and dearest friend that gets Signless to stop apologizing, although the waterworks don't stop. He clings to Psii, feeling his emaciated, wasted form--reduced to skin and bones again, curse that witch and what she's done to him--under his forearms, wishing he still had hands so he could hold him better. He clings, like a frightened wiggler to its lusus or its kind-hearted, jadeblooded troll, and weeps red tears on Psii's bony shoulder.]

[thekidsare0kay]

Um...

[Sollux doesn't want to mess things up, but he is pretty worried about the state of both of them, so he subtly nudges with his powers towards the door]

Maybe we should go inthide? I think both of you need a retht...and a thandwich.

[p2iioniicii2t]

Yeth, that ith a good idea, pleathe.

[ His own powers sputter and die out when he makes an effort to assist, and he surrenders to the assistance entirely. Better to not try and cause a conflict. ]

[onlyasign]

[Sufferer is just along for the ride right now, although it would take heaven and earth--or possibly an eight year old with a good grip--to make him let go of Psii.]

Living room...

[He mutters it into Psii's shoulder. He's been camping in the living room, all established on a nest of blankets and pillows that Dualscar made for him.]

[thekidsare0kay]

You got it.

[He lifts them up a few more inches and bodily flies them both into the living room, depositing them into the middle of the blanket nest]

Where'th the fish?

[p2iioniicii2t]

[ The middle of the nest is a fine location. It's difficult to move his atrophied body, but he'll just try to squirm and rearrange them so that Signless would be more likely to be comfortable. ]

[onlyasign]

[Good luck with that, Psii, as Sufferer is actively squirming around and trying to make sure you're the comfortable one. This probably just looks like a flailing mass of beat-to-shit adult troll right now.]

He's out... having dinner with someone...

[Sufferer's answer is distracted as he tries to find a way to cling to Psii and let him relax at the same time.]

[thekidsare0kay]

Oh. [What a dick, leaving Sufferer alone like this, though Sollux is relieved.

And actually, Dualscar left Sufferer with a bunch of food and made sure he was fed and comfortable before he left, plus he'll only be gone a couple of hours.]

Do you guyth...need anything?