[So like... it's at some point in the evening after what could be considered dinnertime, and Shi Qingxuan is once again looking for He Xuan! She's dressed in a very pretty getup, but also, she's exceedingly pale and looks supremely freaked out, so that's not great.
Once she does spot him, she just. Grips his sleeve. It's fine.]
...you - you haven't spent much time with Gluttony, have you?
[ Unfortunately for him, there's a number of people that would come up and grab onto him in a variety of ways, now. But He Xuan knows Qingxuan, and stops his trek to wherever he's going when he feels the pull on his sleeve, looking down at her.
He's struck by the pretty getup, but the pallor catches his eye a lot faster. ]
I haven't even spoken to them. Why? What did they do? [ Because he's guessing they did something, for her to be shaken like that. ]
[Her grip on his sleeve tightens, and she takes a breath to try to calm down. Generally, she would not advocate not talking to one of the Avatars, but... this feels like a special case.]
They are very much like the Reverend of Empty Words.
[ That causes him to blink, once, in surprise. There aren't many that Shi Qingxuan, she of the fairweather friends, would say that about, even amongst the terrible people in the Heavens. That she would say it of her own Avatar...
His gaze drops to her marked hand, then he looks at her properly again. With her hold on him, she'll be able to feel the responding tension. ]
Well, the easiest way would probably be to just say it plainly. She bites her lip.]
They eat souls. [That, uh, is a little blunt, even for her.] And they told someone else that they enjoy it when people are... afraid. And earlier, they, ah...
[She shivers.]
Something... happened. I think they were mad, and suddenly all I could think about was that I wanted to die.
Wow, He Xuan hates that. The eating souls part doesn't even cause him to bat a single eyelash out of place, considering he's known for eating water ghouls, but the rest of it. The rest he hates, to a very core-deep degree. And the more she says, the more that he loathes it. ]
If you were seeing them on your own, before, don't do it again. Don't talk to them alone. [ With a small shift, he gets her hand from his sleeve and into the crook of his elbow to start walking her down the hall. Brisk, with the intent to get Elsewhere. ]
They never treated me like this alone... we were in a group when it happened.
[Which almost makes it worse, honestly.
When he shifts so that her hand is in his elbow, instead, she leans into him and follows him down the hall. She's a little unsteady on her feet, and when she draws closer to him, he may be able to smell alcohol on her breath that explains it. #copinghabits.]
...you don't talk to them alone either. You don't - you shouldn't have to feel like that.
[Not again.
Although he'd certainly been made of sterner stuff than that, even as a mortal.]
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Once she does spot him, she just. Grips his sleeve. It's fine.]
...you - you haven't spent much time with Gluttony, have you?
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He's struck by the pretty getup, but the pallor catches his eye a lot faster. ]
I haven't even spoken to them. Why? What did they do? [ Because he's guessing they did something, for her to be shaken like that. ]
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[Her grip on his sleeve tightens, and she takes a breath to try to calm down. Generally, she would not advocate not talking to one of the Avatars, but... this feels like a special case.]
They are very much like the Reverend of Empty Words.
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His gaze drops to her marked hand, then he looks at her properly again. With her hold on him, she'll be able to feel the responding tension. ]
... how so.
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Well, the easiest way would probably be to just say it plainly. She bites her lip.]
They eat souls. [That, uh, is a little blunt, even for her.] And they told someone else that they enjoy it when people are... afraid. And earlier, they, ah...
[She shivers.]
Something... happened. I think they were mad, and suddenly all I could think about was that I wanted to die.
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Wow, He Xuan hates that. The eating souls part doesn't even cause him to bat a single eyelash out of place, considering he's known for eating water ghouls, but the rest of it. The rest he hates, to a very core-deep degree. And the more she says, the more that he loathes it. ]
If you were seeing them on your own, before, don't do it again. Don't talk to them alone. [ With a small shift, he gets her hand from his sleeve and into the crook of his elbow to start walking her down the hall. Brisk, with the intent to get Elsewhere. ]
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[Which almost makes it worse, honestly.
When he shifts so that her hand is in his elbow, instead, she leans into him and follows him down the hall. She's a little unsteady on her feet, and when she draws closer to him, he may be able to smell alcohol on her breath that explains it. #copinghabits.]
...you don't talk to them alone either. You don't - you shouldn't have to feel like that.
[Not again.
Although he'd certainly been made of sterner stuff than that, even as a mortal.]