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[dicey]

[see Vriska sitting on a clinic bed, covered in burns and bandages and looking at the PCD with a grin that is probably a bit too self-satisfied for someone in her position]

Miss me, Adstringendum? Wait, don't bother saying anything; of course you did!

I guess I can give this place a hand. These clinic things really aren't that bad! If you get hurt on Alternia you're pretty much on your own, and it's not like I couldn't have handled this by myself, but maybe "medicine" and "doctors" aren't a completely pointless invention. But now that I can move, I'm leaving! I don't want anyone stealing my hive.

If anyone's tried while I've been gone, you'd better be prepared to be kicked out.

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[capuletnomore]

[Culling again. She frowns.]

But this woman - L-larxene, you called her before? - she would not know of such things. If she is a noble warrior, she could still teach you much. And such would give you an advantage over those who wish you harm.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

I don't want to ask her for help! I'd sound stupid!

[capuletnomore]

You would not sound stupid, not to a human. If she is human, she will take it as a compliment that you find her to be strong and wise and wish her to help you become as she is.

[She is making an awful lot of assumptions about a woman she's never met and isn't sure she likes, given the woman nearly killed her friend.]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

She said she's not a human, she's a Nobody. And it would definitely sound stupid, trust me! She'd think I was completely lame.

[capuletnomore]

A Nobody? What is a Nobody?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

She said it means she doesn't have a heart.

[capuletnomore]

[And now she is thoroughly confused.]

How can one lack a heart and still live?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

No idea.

[capuletnomore]

....

Mayhaps she is some sort of doll? A living doll? No, that makes little sense.

Did she say anything else regarding herself, Vriska?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Yeah! She's part of an organization that this other guy I know his in, too.

[capuletnomore]

An organization? And, there is another from this organization here as well? Who is he, and what sort of group is it?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Axel. I let him use my nail polish once. I don't know anything about the organization, though.

[capuletnomore]

[Something about the situation triggers her memory. She didn't speak with many people that week, but she had seen across the network.]

He knows Riku.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Yup! He was in his body.

[capuletnomore]

If Riku knows Axel, it is possible he also knows Laxrene. We may learn more of her from him.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Like Riku would actually do anything useful! He's been trying to piss me off since I first got here.

[capuletnomore]

Riku is a dear friend to me. I shall ask him for you, if he will not tell you himself.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, you're friends with everybody. ... Except Karkat.

[capuletnomore]

[She giggles at that.]

I would not say that I am friends with everyone, but I have been here many months and have met many people, some of whom I hold very dear.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

What's Riku's deal?

[capuletnomore]

I understand not what you mean, I am afraid.

[Slang, she does not know it well.]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

He's always being hostile and trying to pick fights! That's why I helped Axel dress his body up, hahaha.

[capuletnomore]

Riku...can be slow to trust people. And sometimes his manner can be abrupt. But he has a good heart, and wishes his friends to be happy.

[She smiles.]

He was one of Bubbles' many lusi when she was here. She would fly between our two houses, so she could visit with him, Hanna, and Galahad, and also with myself and Tybalt, and then with myself and Spike, when I moved to Spike's house for a time.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

How many did she have to have, anyway? She didn't seem that much younger than me.

[capuletnomore]

At first, it was only me. But she was such a precocious child, and so endearing, that many chose to become her lusus. And she would call them "papa" and "mama", the way I call those whom I consider family my brothers and sisters. I considered her more my daughter than my ward.

She was five, and small for her age.