Date: 2023-04-03 03:00 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (that I’ll never know)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
Don't offer him empty condolences.

I promise you he will not take it well.

Date: 2023-04-03 03:17 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (the cruellest patterns find the vein)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
Obviously.

It didn't stick from me. I have this
funny suspicion he'll react negatively to it from you.
Edited Date: 2023-04-03 03:17 am (UTC)

Date: 2023-04-03 03:28 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
When I can sleep for a week.

Date: 2023-04-03 03:39 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (I could not save)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
So pessimistic that you think I won't do it on my own. [Unlike his usual sing-song tone there is a very, very, very faint malicious edge to this.

(It's really not Istredd's fault, even as the primary source for an outlet now. Nocwich and Lucifer rarely go well.)]

Date: 2023-04-03 03:44 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (I thought I wanted legacy)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
If you call fits and snatches and unconsciousness "sleep" whenever any of us were back from where we'd set out to.

Date: 2023-04-03 03:55 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (is there any hope for me?)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
[he's unfortunately considered it: the biggest tragedy of today]

I'm not going to get any real rest until we're back in Thorne.

Which is an abysmal prospect that I
willingly would rather be in Thorne.

Date: 2023-04-03 04:06 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: » hallucination (til the truth comes out)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
But think of all the fun I could get into with a castle empty of Summoned!

[Ambrose would love that.]

I don't think anyone stayed in Thorne. [Thorne Summoned mobilized. They were all each other's unhealthy shadows.] Doubt anyone's gone back yet either.

Date: 2023-04-03 04:18 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (for I have seen)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
Eh.

[He's going to lean into the hope that Istredd doesn't know the extent of Lucifer's Ambrose Incident. Re: actually getting imprisoned in the dungeons for a day.]

The benefit of teenagers is that their bodies will shake off the physical damage quicker than you'd expect.

It's the emotional damage that will take time.


[This is all laid out very methodical. Neutral, informational. Not so much a closing off of emotions as it is that alien nature of someone that knew how to break down souls.

Likely how his tone would have been when he told Istredd to weigh his pros and cons in the pit, had they access to the bond at the time.]

Date: 2023-04-03 04:33 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (the one that keeps the curtains closed)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
I'm an expert on inflicting extensive mental trauma. There's a difference.

[If Istredd is implying Lucifer's own mental trauma heeeeeeeeeee........... wouldn't really call himself a survivor, nor someone ANYONE would want to take his "methods" from.]

Date: 2023-04-03 03:12 pm (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
[he only gets a hmmmm'ed hum response]

Date: 2023-04-04 01:32 am (UTC)
thedevilwhorose: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thedevilwhorose
[grumble grumble

it's not his fault he's asleep before Istredd even shows, and it's the cat's own doing that it's there on its own.

his mind does settle, like it had been bracing itself, after Istredd shows. the static dims while he sleeps.]