I'm not treating you like you're fragile, I'm treating you like you're injured. Why should I trust someone who neglects his injuries so much that he's started bleeding suddenly two weeks in a row?
[ yves is still bringing his hands up to his mouth to try to warm them, thoughtful as he does so.... ]
It comes and goes, like it did for you.
Sometimes I'm Yves, and I know who I am. But sometimes... I'm Yves, but I'm a ghost, long dead even though all my friends are alive. But I refuse to move on to the next life, because I love them so much I can't let go.
[ and sometimes, those experiences sound like the exact same thing ]
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But they can hold hand... ]
Okay, well. If you want to go, then you'll have to be wheeled out.
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well ]
You don't need to treat me like I'm fragile... I can still walk.
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I'm not treating you like you're fragile, I'm treating you like you're injured. Why should I trust someone who neglects his injuries so much that he's started bleeding suddenly two weeks in a row?
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I do change my bandages everyday—it's just that if I can't feel my wounds opening, I don't realize they have... It doesn't hurt, so...
[ deflates ]
... I don't like hospitals, Claude. Can we just sit somewhere else—outside and warm? Please?
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Alright. If you're that insistent.
[ They can go. ]
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I am. I'll try to take it easy.
[ so he will walk... maybe just a little bit slower on the way outside. escape! escape!!! ]
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Do you want to talk about what happened?
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It comes and goes, like it did for you.
Sometimes I'm Yves, and I know who I am. But sometimes... I'm Yves, but I'm a ghost, long dead even though all my friends are alive. But I refuse to move on to the next life, because I love them so much I can't let go.
[ and sometimes, those experiences sound like the exact same thing ]
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That's how I remember it too. It was disorienting. But it shouldn't last more than a day or two, at least.
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Right. I know.
I'll just... try to hold onto myself until then.
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Then we'll have to do our best to keep you grounded then.
Do you think you were also in someone's memories?
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[ nods ]
Yeah. Zuriel was there.
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[ A frown. ]
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I... think so. It aligned with things that she'd told me before.