Open: A Kindness to soothe the hurts

[killedwithlove]

Cole is what he is because of what he does and so what he does is try and help.

He doesn't understand electricity, or computers, or what 'genes' are. He can't cook because he doesn't eat and he barely recognises the robots as existing because they lack the thing that makes him realise they're real.

So he lets himself sit, quiet and open and he listens for the hurts he can help. The things that need soothing and the emotional wounds that fester and need lancing and the aches that just need airing to begin healing.

And when he hears it, he follows.

OOC: (Cole is a spirit of Compassion and has an instinctively understanding of what is troubling people and what might help them recover. This can be as simple as listening to someone talk, or as complex as setting up a situation that would allow them to relax and forget about it for a while.

If your muse needs (or wants) some kindness, leave a top level and Cole will come to help.)

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[killedwithlove]

He's definitely frightened.

"No, not you! Her! Her in you, sleeping, Tranquil, too powerful, she'll hurt you if she stays and you'll hurt her and she has to get out!!" Cole cringes back. "I'm sorry, I don't want to scare you, don't want to hurt you, but two people shouldn't be in one body!"

He looks at her, then seems to look past her, deeper, deeper than any gaze should. "She's asleep in you, but if she wakes... she'll hurt you. She will hurt you. She has to go away."

If she woke up, maybe Cole would be able to read her, understand more, but she wasn't and he couldn't.

But something... did echo.

"What did you forget? No. What did she forget?"

[livingdeadgirl]

He doesn't want to scare her? Too late for that. His eyes, reflecting in the dark, seem to pierce right through her, opening her heart and examining its contents, and finding inside it - something monstrous. A slumbering horror that must never awaken.

What has she forgotten?

Ami raises a hand to her heart, her breathing shallow. Her other hand fumbles for the controls on her bedroom door.

"Y... you need to leave," she says shakily. "You go away. Leave me alone."

The door hisses open, and she ducks inside and starts mashing the CLOSE button. Please don't follow please don't hurt her please leave her alone.

[killedwithlove]

She yells at him to go and Cole vanishes. He turns and run, but he's gone in a puff of black-green smoke as he runs, willing himself away faster and further than any legs can move.