Zaya - Sinner number 24

❝We've lived twenty lives in this car, Plenty more on the line.❞

@Wheel0fFate 'No thanks are necessary, little one.' Her bright golden eyes look at Briar sadly, and she pats her head. Making a mental note to scrounge up a prosthetic for her.

@FrostSplinter "It's fine. I don't feel particularly uncomfortable... thank you, Ms. Gerda."

@Wheel0fFate [A few years ago. A city in K Corp, massacred and occupied by the Inquisition.] They tripled Zaya's dose of canned sludge for weeks before sending her here, and beat it into her every day: these people are the aggressors. They're just like the Kurokumo clan back >>

@VANILLALUSSURIA ❄️|| also Zaya @ practically everyone at some point

@Wheel0fFate Gerda is quiet for a minute as she finishes wrapping the bandage and tying it. '... Tell me if this is too tight.'

@FrostSplinter She just shakes her head... the only people she could call family died in that raid, but she doesn't really want to talk about her now dead adoptive mothers right now.

@Wheel0fFate >> if Briar doesn't want to talk about it with people she just met.

@Wheel0fFate Gerda nods, and starts wrapping fresh bandages around Briar's head. 'Do you have anyone? Any family?' She doesn't know anything about Briar's past, that she had adoptive parents, or that other members of her community escaped to P Corp. Of course, it would be understandable >>

@Wheel0fFate Gerda finishes cleaning her eye socket, and starts applying antibiotic ointment. 'Ampoules? But your eye didn't grow back. How...how did you lose it, if I may ask?'

@FrostSplinter Her face muscles tighten slightly with a repressed wince as Gerda cleans around Briar's eye socket. It's still a little tender, but not overly painful. "... they did more than that. But... Zay- er... Kai, used this shot with green stuff on it that healed all of that."

When the mouth of infinity buries its teeth in me, I’ll smile through the agony for you. I know you still bear the weight of your own existence, and you’ll never bear the weight of two. Let the tides carry you back to me. The past, the future, through death, my arms are open.

@MirroredWaters ...... If you say so. Do you happen to know if Miss Atreides is around?

@FrostSplinter This Puppet would advise you to forget it mentioned anything. Such things are best forgotten.

This Puppet would like to introduce our new members. If you'll let her.

@MirroredWaters Very well. May I ask if you are quite alright? Why are you referring to yourself as the Welkin Angel, and. Not idealizing the concept of selfhood.

@FrostSplinter This Puppet doesn't believe so.

@MirroredWaters I. That is okay. Is there anyone else I should know about. Or speak to.

@FrostSplinter [There's nobody. Eve rubs the back of her head and gives an aside glance.] This Puppet believes perhaps it mentioned this too early.

@MirroredWaters The woman known as Zaya is pleased to meet Gilgamesh from the Outskirts? [Looking around. Is Gilgamesh in the room with them now?]

@FrostSplinter This Puppet introduces the woman known as Zaya to Gilgamesh of the outskirts. From what it recalls of its time in the Garden, Gilgamesh was the leader of the Outskirts, or something akin to a uniting leader. It knows a legend of a myriad relics considered taboo in her hands.

@radiatiionburns How do you know that.

@FrostSplinter It will be okay.

Staring at @anya1076072

@MirroredWaters E-ehh... I have...several concerns, but...for now, yes, you may introduce the...newcomers.

@FrostSplinter Ahem. It. This Puppet will introduce the new member if you will let it. Rule one of existence as The Welkin Angel is to not idealize the concept of selfhood.

Mm-mm. [Shakes head.]

@radiatiionburns Mh... [Distraught noises.]

@FrostSplinter So nothing too drastically different from the usual...

Mm. [Nods.]

@radiatiionburns >> 11. You're tall and old and you have incalculable levels of rizz. 12. Don't leave me again for saying this but you could be more expressive and assertive.

@radiatiionburns 1. Yes. 2. No. 3. Happily. 4. If you were in a lot of pain, and assuming the Manager can revive you, yes. 5. Yes. 6. Y-yes, 7. No. 8. Yes. 9. I-if you wanted me to... 🫣 [Zaya you are married to her.] 10. Nay. >>

❄️|| like and/or reply. mutuals only. if they haven't interacted she'll do her best but some of the answers might be 'don't know'

@Wheel0fFate Gerda helps her unwrap the bandage, then starts cleaning around the eye socket with a wet cloth. She frowns, concerned. 'Those Inquisition bastards,' she says softly. 'Taking a child's eye. Monsters.'

@FrostSplinter "Mhm. It's kinda itchy, so a new banage would be nice." She starts unwrapping the current one. There's a bit of dried blood once she gets to the last few layers, her crying probably aggravated her injury.