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6/24: nico

[ Maybe it's a bad idea. ...It's a bad idea, he knows it is, but he has to know. It's another late night patrol, not quite bedtime but getting there, with Natsuo pacing in front of the dorms, staring down at his feet and muttering to himself, down the hall, down the stairs, his feet bringing him in front of the ballroom. He frowns at the door for a second before reaching out and giving the handle a rattle: locked. ]

Did I not get this far? I must have...

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I have no idea what that is, but cool. Hold onto that for a sec-

[ While he takes two steps back and then charges the door. If it's not rubber and he doesn't bounce back and the door doesn't give, I guess he'll break his leg here. Or at least bang it up pretty badly. ]

It's an element from the Underworld-- [But he doesn't explain further because Natsuo's running and definitely banging up his leg pretty badly as he doesn't quite bounce back.]

Natsuo! Are you okay?

[ screams into the abyss bc no he's not okay ]

[#yikes]

You just revived...[But he's going to wait.] Can you move your leg at least?

[ He gets up on one leg, and can lift the other but that just means whatever got messed up is below the knee. It hurts, but if he grits his teeth hard enough, he can shove that to the back of his mind, flamingo hop over to Nico, and holds out his hand. ]

Sword.

[NATSUO.]

You need to sit down before your leg gives out, actually. So no sword.

I don't need both legs to swing a sword?

[ He doesn't sit, but he lowers his leg, not quite putting weight on it but letting his shoe barely touch the ground like he's pretending he's perfectly fine, dnw ]

Are you sure about that? [...fine. He hands Natsuo the sword and fully prepares himself to watch how perfectly fine the guy is.]

[ Thanks for enabling, Nico. The end result is pretty much as expected- he plants his feet hard on the ground in order to kick off, swings in the same motion that he bites back the tears, and ends up letting go of the sword at the very last second so that it just sort of clatters harmlessly against the doorknob.

...

...

says through gritted teeth- ] See? Like that.

Be careful with that! [He dives for his sword and picks it up, glaring a little because Natsuo is an idiot!!!]

You're going to make it worse, so sit down for a second before you end up tearing something.

[ Who's the idiot who trusted him with a sword!! after knowing what he did in the ballroom.

He sits his ass down, but because he was half a second to doing that anyways. ]

...It's fine. I'll just ice it and it'll be fine tomorrow. Pain goes away, so it's fine!

[He's 14??? Leave him alone!]

It goes away but leaves lasting damage, Natsuo. That is sort of what pain is. [A beat.] Would you like me to get you some ice?

What damage does pain leave...? [ A lot, actually, but he's already getting back to his feet to hobble on after Nico. ]

I'll come with you! I need to grab Cuttlefish so I can try again later anyways.

A lot. [But...] What or who is Cuttlefish?

Uh- Dave's sword. The Welsh one. Cuttlefish.

[ I can't spell what it's actually called off the top of my head, so. Cuttlefish. ]

What makes you think that sword is going to work any better than mine? Just because it's Welsh? [I hate Homestuck all over again.]

Yeah. [ haha yeah ] And 'cause it's Dave's, so I'm going to channel his friendship and all of that, I'm sure that'll make it stronger.

...I suppose that's possible. [They're in a magical castle. At this rate, Nico assumes everything is true.] How far away is it?

Um. Upstairs, in the dorms- I'm living in the white one with Ion.

[A frown.] You think you can handle stairs after that?

I don't need both legs to go up the stairs. I can just pull myself up with the handrail.

[ Honestly this is how I've been imagining Steph doing it all these weeks ]

Are you always this stubborn? [Legit though.]

It's the one thing I'm good at!

Get better skills, Natsuo. [A small grin.] Can't I just grab it for you so you can ice your leg? Then we'll try breaking in again.

How about we don't try breaking my leg again.

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