rippled | laurence

[ well this is a little concerning in a different way from the rest of you. ]

Mr. Saber? Are you doing okay?

[ they look over at the sound of laurence's voice until they spot him. ]

I am fine.

[ headtilt. ]

Really? [ doubt. ] All the others look like they're having a hard time. Like they're in some kind of brain fog after whatever you guys just went through.

Are they? I'm sorry they're experiencing that. I feel okay.

[ (saber voice) i'm built different ]

[ hm. ]

Alright. So you can explain what happened, then?

We were looking for something.

[ they stop talking so that is apparently the end of the explanation. ]

[ he's gonna come out of this really annoyed at an injured person he can feel it ]

And what was that?

... I don't know. I only knew it was something important at the time.

Important enough for all of you to get injured for it?

... yes. It was what was driving me to move forward, at the time.

It's not like we wanted to get injured.

Obviously. No one just sets out with that in mind. I'm just trying to understand what happened, since this is probably going to keep happening.

... we just showed up somewhere. I had no memory of anything about myself or this place, so I assume it was the same for the others. There were times where we were together, and times where we weren't, and we were looking for something...

[ they trail off. ]

That's all. It was dangerous and we got hurt.

[ well. it's not a very satisfying explanation and he doesn't like it one bit. but he knows better than to keep pushing when it's clearly a lost cause. ]

And your injuries? You got help with them? Tell me you at least went to the hospital.