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[warpweft]

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[day 50 after dangerbear, text]

[cosplayed_out]

Nessa?

Did you make it okay? You made it out okay, right?

Re: [day 50 after dangerbear, text]

[warpweft]

[It takes a while for her to answer. She stared at her phone for a long time before typing anything.]

I'm at my dorm

[cosplayed_out]

Is that a yes?

[warpweft]

My teammate healed me

[cosplayed_out]

Good.

...Please tell me I didn't break your leg.

day 78, text

[messianic]

Nessa-san, would it be okay if I came by to give you a present?

[warpweft]

Oh.

Um.

For the game?

Okay.

[messianic]

Well... for the game, I suppose, but mostly because I want to give you a Christmas present, since we have the option to now.

Should I just come by the dorms?

[warpweft]

Oh.

[doki]

Well, uh. Yeah. The dorm would be fine.

[messianic]

Great. I'll be there soon. (＾＾)ｂ OK!

[ to the dorms!! He'll be knocking soon enough, a purple package under his arm. ]

evening of 78

[velluminous]

[ ding! on Nessa's bell. ]

Re: evening of 78

[warpweft]

[Nessa appears!]

[Nessa's pillow and blankets also appear and land on top of her in a heap.]

HUUAWAAH, I'M UP. I'M ECHIDNA, I'M HERE TO HELP.

[It appears she was taking a nap.]

[velluminous]

[ it's ok girl we've all been there. Sprezzatura's here, with a bandaged hand, dressed in elf-striped stockings and plaid pajama shorts and a "this is as jolly as I get" black Christmas sweater, and holding a gift wrapped in snake-patterned paper. ]

No, lapochka, you are here to accept my gift.

[ reaches to gently pull the blanket off her ]

[warpweft]

[She pokes her head out of the blankets.]

Hi, Miss Sprezzatura.

I like that sweater.

[She looks down at the box in her hands. Her lips quirk upwards a bit.]

Oh. Uh.

Thank you. I haven't. Gotten a gift for you, yet. I've kind of. Been resting a lot today, so I haven't gotten the chance to do many tasks yet...

[Day 88]

[warpweft]

[So Nessa is....not doing great. She had a fracas with Svetka during that whole feather thing, her monster came out, she got hit with a club, it wasn't great. But any injuries she suffered can be, and at this point likely have already been healed, but uh....

That was a couple days ago, and even if she has been fully healed by this point, she's still, like, barely conscious. She hasn't left Echidna -- today she at least managed to get herself out of bed and onto a couch, but that seems to be an exercise of pure gumption rather than any kind of an improvement in her condition.]

[She has her phone, so she can text people at least. But whatever's wrong with her...healing isn't helping, The Lovers isn't helping and time just seems to be making it worse.]

[velluminous]

[ a message from Plagiarist pops up. who is that? huh... ]

Miss Nessa. Are you well?

[ lol ]

[warpweft]

[It takes a few minutes for a response.]

I think I'm sick
who is this?

[velluminous]

[ white-knuckles her phone, nauseous ]

It is Ms Vaux.

[messianic]

[ Minato is honestly in and out of Echidna a lot due to a certain boyfriend of his, so it doesn't take too long before he sees her there--and frowns, expression concerned. ]

Nessa-san? Hey... are you...

[ "okay?" That's a stupid question, isn't it? ]

[warpweft]

It took all of my energy to...

[Huff.]

Get from my bed to this couch.

I think I got messed up in that fight with Svetka...

[messianic]

[ oh jeeze. oh jeeze??? oh jeeze. He's immediately hurrying to her side, expression pinched. ]

Has... someone's already healed you, right?

[day 96, text]

[cosplayed_out]

Nessa. We need to talk.

It's not about your palace or anything you've done.

But, it's pretty urgent.

Do you have time?

[day 96, text]

[warpweft]

Um.

[When Nessa read the first line of this text, she was sure it was about that and was already thinking of a way to stall and say she wasn't ready to talk about it yet. But uh.]

Okay.

Do you want to do it in text or in person?

[cosplayed_out]

In person. Someplace ominously private.

[warpweft]

Okay, I do know a spot. But you have to promise that you're not going to dramatically shoot me in the back and then lay a single rose on my body.