[catchall] Kate

[sixillusions]

An introvert and a shadow walk into a haunted house

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[sootprints]

[ she stops as she sees him taking down one of the monsters. ]

Ah... there were monsters out here, too?

[ there's a little pang of apprehension, and she stops a little distance away. ]

[sixillusions]

Yeah. They just started showing up.

[UNLESS THEY'VE ACTUALLY BEEN AROUND THE WHOLE TIME AND I FORGOT TO READ but I don't think so apart from like. Pyramid Head and Big Daddy but those are different.]

These are the only ones around here for now. But keep an eye out.

[sootprints]

[ if you forgot to read then so did i ]

... I will.

[ though there's still a part of her that feels a little uncomfortable about seeing monsters getting cut down. it's a little too easy to imagine herself in their place. ]

You haven't been hurt, have you?

[sixillusions]

[He shakes his head, carelessly wiping his sword off on his pant leg. It's fine. He'll do laundry.

He shakes his head.]

No. [But it shouldn't matter by tomorrow anyway.]

[sootprints]

Oh... right. Your healing. Does that not have limits, though?

[ please do your laundry. ]

[sixillusions]

It does. [She saw that firsthand, even if it was wonky. Does not tell her that it's slower than it used to be.] But if we hit that point, we'll have much bigger problems to worry about.

[sootprints]

Okay. True.

[ she's basically driving herself nuts by fretting over tomorrow, and the blunt, straightforward answers are actually a little reassuring. ]

I wonder if we'll end up fighting the monsters that the cult's been summoning all this time. As I understand it, they should be somewhere...