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[preseance]

This is Eugene Hicks. If you've a personal need of me, go on and leave a message, I'll contact you when next I'm able. Thank you.


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[ voice ]

[identifier]

Hey, Gene, do you have any experience with carpentry?

[preseance]

A fair bit, yeah.

( that would be an Understatement, but go on. )

What'cha lookin' for?

( voice. )

[sulfa]

Hey, Doc. Exploration party's decided to set out on the 22nd. [ the sentence stops abruptly when the damn cough he's had for the past few days surfaces again. ] Excuse me. I'm gonna need to grab some of the stuff from your field kit.

[preseance]

( he won't make anythin' of the cough, leastwise over these devices. but wade sounds about how he feels, anyhow. this damn lack of cigarettes. )

Sure. You go on an' take what you need, I got plenty. Curious lack of bullet holes what've need patchin' up since comin' here an' all.

( he says it lightly enough. gallows humour is a helluva drug. )

I'm at the tent if'n you wanna swing on by.

voice : @username

[dualikey]

Hey, you're one of the doctors right?

[preseance]

( he's already pullin' on his boots as he answers, )

I am. What d'you need?

voice | during That Post

[evocation]

Gene, I'm gonna lose my fucking mind in like two seconds.

[She certainly sounds upset—frustrated and on the edge of snapping from stress.]

[preseance]

Hey, hey. Easy.

( his tone, by contrast, is soft and measured. he ain't quite crossed that threshold over into genuine annoyance yet, an' he's rational enough to recognize what he's feelin' is on account of not havin' cigarettes to assuage his own stress. )

Kids can't help this sort'a thing. They just want to help.

⟪ habit ⟫

[voktys]

⟪ he always seems to be occupying himself one way or another, as if no one told him that the dead are meant to rest in peace. and she knows he can take care of himself, in fact, he is among the people here whom she trusts will do just so.

so maybe she is picking up the habit more to soothe herself? who knows. it's a quiet gesture. if he is manning the makeshift hospital by himself, if he is occupying himself with carpentry outside, if he comes back from accompanying someone on an exploration (or mounting one of his own), he'll often be found by melisandre, who doesn't always say much –– she can be quiet, at times, there is more than one reason why they called her a red shadow, and why the name stuck even after the king it came with had gone.

her gift is regular and simple: a warm meal, kept heated in some pot or dish by her powers, a touch to his shoulder, a reminder to take a break, to rest. ⟫

text; un: malaka

[taintedone]

Where the fuck are you?
I've searched and can find you nowhere.

[ Alexios is currently storming up the stairs from the storeroom. Why is he angry? He dreamt of the past and it upset him. ]

[preseance]

Church.

I can come to you.

( he assumes!! this is!! an injury!! where are you pal let him come fix you. )

@priestess ⟪ voice ⟫

[voktys]

I know you are too bright to wander the forest by yourself, but... simply, I'll rest more easily to know you have been warned.

⟪ so here she is, relaying this horrifying tale winters told her. ⟫

[preseance]

( softly, under his breath — lordy. )

Thanks, ma'am. I'll keep that information in mind.

@replica / voice.

[replicates]

If you have time, I wanted to ask you something.

[preseance]

'Course. What's your trouble?

( it's a turn of phrase, he doesn't mean the literal sort. ain't nothin' about the tone that suggests there might be some distress. )

≫ some hours after the intro

[fogey]

[ ben is here. that's one thing; not altogether surprising, though he wouldn't want his brother in a place like this. but ben is here, and he brought news of the apocalypse.

in ben's timeline, five survives jenkins's house, but vanya has powers, and vanya snaps, and their mom dies, and pogo dies, and allison's badly hurt, and the academy is destroyed. and the world with it.

which is to say: he failed.

oh, he hears he tried to jump his family back in time, but what are the odds of that working? it's a desperate move -- and five knows desperation. ate, drank, breathed, bled it for years, for decades, for his whole life...for nothing. if that had worked, ben wouldn't be here now.

the handler had told him, over and over, that what was meant to happen, would. that trying to change time was a doomed endeavor. bad enough to find out about other worlds, here, where the end came or was coming; he refused to feel like he was fighting the inevitable.

except he was. his sister ends the world.

five needs to -- think. he needs to do something before he loses his goddamn mind.

(what he does is drink.)

(like, he talks to people too, meets some of the new people and all, but. after a point. what he does is drink.)

which is why he's stumbling over gene's tent that night(?, fuck, who knows, it's five o'clock somewhere isn't it), coordination completely shot. probably most disconcerting of all, he actually laughs, trying to disentangle himself from the structure. ]

[preseance]

( sleeplessness don't often lay claim to his mind, but tonight it's all he can do just to keep his hands busy an' his mind still. he's sittin' up in his tent at 0300 hours while the darkness gnaws at him like a goddamn plague rat. he's absorbed in what he's doin' — whittlin' a little bird figurine — when five crashes into the side of his tent. he's up in an instant, drivin' the knife point-down into the table so's he has his hands free as he bolts outside an'... sees five tangled up in the canvas along the side. gene goes to help him on instinct alone, expectin' injury an' realizin' once he draws near the only thing he's done is get himself sluiced with what smells like whiskey.

nevertheless, gene helps him up. )

Easy, fella. C'mon now.

( he ushers him inside the tent, which is only a little worse for wear with one collapsed wall that'll be an easy enough fix later. gently, )

Let's get some coffee in you.

( and a couple acetylsalicylic acid tabs, just to be on the safe side. )

Backdated to around the 22nd ish?

[evocation]

[In the evening (although it doesn't really make much difference around here, does it?) Kyna tracks Gene down in her usual way—namely, by finding him and practically bounding over. This time she's got a book in hand, and she holds it up with a flourish, grinning.]

Hey, Genie, look. I totally forgot to show you, but do you think you and Wade can use this?

[preseance]

( he's spent most of the day workin' on the bridge, though it ain't helped his headache none, nor the nausea of withdrawal. kyna finds him in the church, wringin' a wet cloth over a slop bucket so's he can dunk it back in cleaner water an' put it across the back of his neck. he turns when he hears her, an' though kyna's usually one who can put an immediate smile on his face, it's tempered by the downward tug to one corner of his mouth. ain't normally a thing he minds bein' confronted with, but it's been a hard few days. )

Ah, yeah. Could be. Why don't y'leave it on over there an' he an' I can take a look at it later?

( there's somethin' just the slightest bit curt, half-dismissive to his tone. it ain't even intended, it's just somethin' that's ridin' hard on the heels of how absolutely shitty he's feelin'. )

@riku; voice

[equinoctials]

It's Riku. I have something for you.

[ That's it, that's the message. ]

[preseance]

( he's in the church at present, settin' up that gramophone rastus so kindly got for him when riku's message comes through. it's a few minutes before he replies, as he's just in the process of settin' everythin' up, but finally — )

Hey, Riku. I'm in the Church if'n you wanna come on down.

( he's a utilitarian sort'a fella. gene doesn't think for a moment it's a gift, but most likely somethin' useful an' needed. )

@d.grayson ( jason's arrival )

[identifier]

Hey. [ he sounds more terse than usual. ]

Free to go on patrol?

[preseance]

( it's in his tone. some shift or change, an' he nods immediately, already risin' up to get his gear together as he responds — )

Yeah. Whereabouts you wanna meet?

@drake ◆ voice

[nonscriptum]

Hey, I've got something for you. Let me know if you've got a spare minute.

@priestess ⟪ voice ⟫ | backdated to after the river investigation

[voktys]

⟪ she had debated with herself on the matter, but ultimately... it seemed as though it would be for the best if gene knew – so here she calls. ⟫

Do you have a moment? It is about one of the ones who were with us during the trip to the... ah... screaming river.