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un: Accelerator
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[infirmiere]

Sometimes you trust the wrong people

[levelshift]

[Accelerator's response comes a minute or two slower than normal, because reading that is making something click in his brain and suddenly he feels very pensive.]

I think I get it. Some piece of shit completely fucked you over and now you're stuck dealing with the ramifications of what they did.

[infirmiere]

I wouldn't give him all the blame

[ but she's a fucking chump who can't helped caring about him still. ]

We were foolish

[levelshift]

Being foolish doesn't mean you deserve to die and come back over and over again.

[infirmiere]

It is mine to bear anyway, whether I deserve it or not

[levelshift]

It's shitty.

[And it reminds him of the Sisters having to live with the memories of over ten thousand deaths, even though none of them deserve it.]

Do you know what'll happen if you die here?

[infirmiere]

Aurora will take care of it probably. I doubt they would let the rebirth happen considering someone would have to

Have a baby

Presumably Aurora and Echo would intervene

[levelshift]

Ugh, yeah. I'd hope they would step in before that could happen. The robot babies in Moorcroft were a big enough of a pain, that'd be really fucking screwed up.

[infirmiere]

I'm trying very hard not to put it to the test

[levelshift]

At least it hasn't been all that hard to avoid it. Not that I'm expecting the missions to continue being mostly harmless, but so far you either need to be stupid or totally helpless to get killed.

[infirmiere]

Well there was the Saw trap in the labyrinth

[levelshift]

The what trap?

[He never saw the movies, okay.]

[infirmiere]

Nightmare torture trap, two people strapped to chairs back to back with a drill coming toward both of them. It was super

[levelshift]

Okay, first, that's fucked up and I'm not sure what the point of that would be aside from giving someone lifelong trauma. Second, what the hell does that have to do with saws?

[infirmiere]

There's a movie franchise called Saw where people get put through similar traps. I've never seen them

It was fucked up though, you're right

[levelshift]

That's a shitty premise for a bunch of movies.

Did you have to go through it?

[infirmiere]

Yeah

Ben took the drill, I healed him after but it doesn't really make it less horrific.

[levelshift]

I can imagine. It's shitty you had to go through that [He's tortured people before, he knows how horrific it can get.]

Is there a limit to your healing? Can you heal yourself?

[infirmiere]

If there is still functional life in a body I can heal it — brain function, breath, a heartbeat, something like that and maybe a bit after

Can't heal a corpse from being dead but I can make them aesthetically look better

But no, not myself

[levelshift]

I see. And is it magic you're using? Or something else?

[infirmiere]

Presumably

I've been able to do it since I was young and back then everything out of the ordinary was considered magic

[levelshift]

What's the actual process you use? Is there some kind of foundation to it, like how natural phenomena follows scientific laws?

[This nerd, asking about magic instead of talking about dying.]

[infirmiere]

The foundation is water. I can touch a person and feel where they're hurt and then fix it, so long as I have some water on me.

[ and when she doesn't because guess what the human body is made out of :) she tries not to use herself as a source though, as a general rule. sylvie gets stroppy about it. ]

[levelshift]

That's it? Are you attaching any cultural or religious significance to it to make the whole process more efficient?

[infirmiere]

No?

It's pretty efficient as is

I'll be honest, you are putting way more thought into this than I have ever done