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[Red appears to be his normal self, nothing off about him at all! He looks a bit uneasy as he heads down a hallway near the more populated areas, but other than that, everything's the same as always.

A few halls away, something vaguely resembling Red is shuffling along, head down. He looks emaciated, all pasty skin and bone, with tangled hair falling to his ears instead of his shoulders. He doesn't have a shirt on, just a pair of pants torn off at the knee, which gives off a full view of the complete mess he is. Thick, messily done stitches stretch over sluggishly bleeding incisions all over his front and back, and a hole in the crook of his arm is leaking something an acidic green.]

(ooc: I give you the aspect removed from Red: the experiments.)

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That's not the point. I don't know how long this spell will last, but they're here now.

[And she is not leaving him to just deal with them on his own. She knows if he really wanted to he could easily do it himself, but she's here now, so he doesn't have to.]

[He just hums in response, not having an argument. If she's going to insist on doing this, he may as well let her. It makes it easier in the long run.]

I don't know what you were expecting from me.

[Her tone isn't light enough, but it's meant to be teasing, and he'll probably get that.]

I'm not sure what I was either.

[There's the faintest hint of a smile when he says it, though. He doesn't really have the cocky front Red normally has, there's a resignation to him that doesn't really exist anymore in his normal self.]

[She smiles back at him, briefly. That's unsettling to see, honestly, because Red's so... not that. But she tries not to let it show, and just keeps removing stitches. She won't stop until she's completely done, and then she leans away to get proper equipment to sew it back up.]

[The injury looks even more gruesome without those stitches holding it quite so together. It was definitely made to get at organs, though it's thankfully not that fresh-looking that he's got anything visible in there. Just slightly too dark meat.]

[That's really unsettling, and Riku's incredibly glad she's getting kind of used to gore after knowing Red for so long, and being in the DR. She's noticeably hesitant to get started, but does manage to thread the needle and get started on the first stitch.]

Thanks, by the way.

[The stitching will hold just fine, though who knows if it'll last during this spell. He's still not looking at her, like that'll somehow help her keep her resolve.]

[She almost doesn't respond- what is she supposed to say to that? You're welcome? Don't worry about it? She waits until the first one is done, and moves onto the second.]

Always.

That was disgustingly sappy.

[What are you, Riku, a romance movie heroine? Jeez!!!]

Nah, not from me. You must be thinking of someone else.

[She means it, though. She would do this as many times as she had to, and not just because she loves him.]

[She's probably the only one, or at least he thinks so. He doesn't know why anyone else would want to.]

[A couple people would, because he is actually pretty likable once you get to know him, even if he's an ass sometimes. Or so Riku would say. As she works she feels compelled to talk. The silence kind of makes the situation worse.]

Where were you going?

Not sure. I was a little spaced out until you showed up.

[At least he doesn't sound as rough anymore, even if he's still talking pretty quietly.]

You seemed like it.

[He seemed dead, or on the brink of it. She's glad she was the one to find him and not someone who might have just... ignored him. Or Red, in whatever state he's in. She should call him.]

Not sure how long I'd have stayed like that.

[She's certainly free to! He's got his phone on him and everything.]

[She probably will, after she finishes stitching up the Y-shape, but before anything else.]

I'm glad you didn't.

Mm, so am I.

[Talk about a dangerous way to be. Injured and not paying attention to your surroundings unless someone gets close enough?]

So do you know what's going on in this spell?

[She's just, you know. Curious. The geminis, for example. They all knew what they were and how they had come to be. Is it the same for... these whatever?]

It's...

[He trails off, wondering how to explain it. It's not that he knows the specifics, really, but it's easy enough to guess.]

A part of you removed.

I thought so.

[She wasn't sure if it was more specific than that. Dark parts, something like that. But this much makes sense.]

So the Red you know is out there without his scars.

[At least, the ones he didn't get here.]

[She frowns deeply, remembering them with some discomfort. Scars are scars, but... It's easy to forget where they came from on someone else. She goes quiet for a bit, just concentrating on stitches.]

When I finish this I'm going to call him. To let him know what he's missing.

He might know already.

[Hard to miss the scars being gone and all, not to mention some of his abilities.]

Then I'll let him know where you are, because I'm sure he'd want to.

[He might not do anything about it, and maybe even shouldn't, but... she'd want to know. She's over half done with the stitches now.]

I still don't know where mine is.