Let me Crawl Inside Your Veins (Wide Open)

[bridge_princess]

Who: Parsee bridge_princess and You!
What: February Open Log
Where: Pretty much anywhere
When: February (after the 8th)
Content Warnings: Body Horror, Blood, Roots and flowers growing in things like lungs and other places they don't belong. Probably some serious self loathing here

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[theforgottenboy]

She doesn't have to go far into the shrine to stumble across Cole, hunkered down beside a ley line with his frequent chickpeewoo companion huddled up beside him. When he notices Parsee he's quick to stand and face her, the pink critter hopping up and clucking fussily at the sudden loss of its comfortable resting spot.

"Parsee! You're back. I didn't know if you would be."

He may not be the type to go in for hugs or whatnot, but he sounds relieved.

[bridge_princess]

"Cole? W...Were you waiting for me?!?" She couldn't tell how long it had been exactly, but the sight of him there, by one of the leylines connected to the shrine, looking up at her in that fashion? It made her think for just the briefest moment he might have been. Nah... he couldn't have, not that long.

"U...Uh, yeah. My memories are still kind of coming back. Fast, but they're coming. What're you doing?"

[theforgottenboy]

"I was listening, to the not-mist. In case anyone needs help."

Sorry if that answer is disappointing, but-

"Since it's here, I could listen for that and wait for you, too. Now you're here, so I'm glad I did." This is her place, after all. Or at least part of it, it has changed some since their initial arrival. A lot of things have changed.

"Was it very long for you? Are you all right?"

[bridge_princess]

"C...Cole, that mean y...you were basically waiting a..a...t the shrine for d...days!"

She knew enough to know days had passed. Gah, how had he dealt with Viridi for that long? She was insufferable in small doses! Parsee sputtered for a second. There was a 'thanks but you didn't have to....' in there somewhere even if him listening for trouble so sounded like him.

"I...Uh... years actually... really boring... monotonous years, with stupid incidents peppered in and no memories of here. Like my life always is." There'd been a few specific things of note in those memories, but to her it had been such a reminder that it was better here, no matter what happened. "I'm... I'm ok. Just getting my bearings back."

[theforgottenboy]

Sometimes being oblivious in certain situations can be a blessing, but also-

"I don't have anywhere else I have to be, unless someone needs help."

It's not any sort of deflection, just a simple matter of fact. So of course it was no trouble to wait and see if Parsee was pulled back. He's considered the idea of picking a place like others have, but there are plenty of safer places he can pop into if he needs to sleep or the weather gets bad.

Years is theoretically a long time, though he's acquainted with how time can lose its meaning when you're tied to one place.

"It's good that nothing bad happened."

[bridge_princess]

"Nothing awful, no. Just the usual irritations and idiocy that always happens. There were a few strange occurrences. Nothing that really hit me, but I watched them as they played out." Like that time when they were trying to ear people's worship somehow, to be the hope of the people. "Some of them were weird, and I'm not sure what to think of them. But... they also weren't really important. nothing there is ever important."