NHS Catchall

[burningrescue]

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week 2; post trial

[burningrescue]

[Well! Galo will come and track NHS down at some point after the trial! Where is he!]

[unanswering]

[he's in the garden! nie huaisang's perched on one of the stone benches, just sort of idly observing the flowers nearby; he's got paper on his lap and a pen in hand, but he hasn't made a mark.

he glances up when galo approaches, though, blinking up at him; his eyes look a little red-rimmed. it's fine. other people's feelings are FINE.]

Oh- young master Thymos.

[burningrescue]

Hey!

[Scratching his head, a little unsure how to respond to that.]

Galo is just fine with me.

[unanswering]

Galo, then.

[everyone's conventions are weird... but he's going with it, to be polite.

he grips the pen a little tighter, though, glancing down. his hands are both pretty shaky.]

...I'm sorry for the trouble.

[burningrescue]

I'm not going to say it's okay, but. [He considers his words for a second.] I get it, honestly. Sometimes it's hard to trust strangers.

I'm sure when you woke up and saw there were two others, you just thought, what's the harm if they don't find out?

[unanswering]

It seemed like we didn't truly believe Asch was guilty, not enough of us to condemn him, but he still-! When there wasn't a better option...

[huaisang shakes his head.]

I didn't want to save myself, only to die for doing it. It was already a near miss.

[burningrescue]

[Nodding.]

Yeah. I thought so too. It seemed obvious we knew Asch didn't do it, but we didn't know what to do. [He shrugs.] I only voted for myself last week, so I'm no better.

[unanswering]

You really could have been hurt worse... you and miss Anya both.

[another headshake, faster.]

But I have no room to talk, do I?

[burningrescue]

[He softens a little more at that.]

Nah. You're right. We all had to do better this time.

[unanswering]

At least it seems that we did. For a while, I really was afraid we wouldn't.

[burningrescue]

Yeah. Well, it was easy enough when we could figure out what was you and Babo Kim! But whew, that was a tense one.

[unanswering]

Much too tense for my tastes, I thought I might have a heart attack...

[he's exaggerating, but he did spend the whole thing low-key panicking, so!]

[burningrescue]

Yeah! You're a jumpy guy, huh?

[He somehow finds that kind of funny.]

Well, anyone would be freaked out if they almost were murdered.

w3 post-trial

[unanswering]

[Nie Huaisang's going to come find him sometime after the trial! Where's Galo hanging out... wherever it is, he'll be greeted with a little bow.]

Oh- Galo. Are you well...? That did get a bit stressful, didn't it...

[burningrescue]

[He's in the kitchen! He - gives him a little bow back?]

I'm fine. It got ugly for a minute there. . .at least we didn't make a mistake.

[unanswering]

...it's a relief we found him. I knew it couldn't be Jin Ling, but-- I'm not sure I could have convinced everyone of it in time, if we didn't have a better suspect.

[He's going to start getting tea ready, moving a little cautiously. Undressing and redressing twice was a lot of movements that were not easy on his injuries.]

[burningrescue]

It would've been pretty fucking stupid of him to shove his own clothes in a washing machine and leave it! I wouldn't let us vote for the obvious guy being framed again. Not after Asch.

. . .Were the footprints outside one of yours?

[unanswering]

No, they weren't. If Jin Ling's clothing was stolen, I suspect they might have been made with his shoes-- the other print was barefoot, after all.

[burningrescue]

Oh. That's smart!

Jin Ling. He's your. . . [He hasn't caught the relationship.]

[unanswering]

Ah, we aren't related-- but one of his uncles is an old friend, and his other uncle was more or less a brother of mine.

[Was. He just shrugs slightly, though.]

We're the only ones here from our home, so I have... some responsibility towards him. He'll be a Sect Leader himself someday.

[burningrescue]

And you're trying to take care of him here. [Good. That's good.]

You did a good job!

[unanswering]

...I've tried to, at least.

[A little shake of his head, there, but his expression softens.]

He's tried to do the same for me, from what I understand. And you're still trying to help care for all of us, aren't you?

[burningrescue]

[Rubbing his head, a little embarrassed at the compliment.]

I'm doing my best! I still have no idea how we managed to solve that, other than Luna.

[unanswering]

Honestly, I don't either. We had it narrowed down, but-- we did that too late, without some sort of firmer evidence like she gave us.

[burningrescue]

I couldn't find the bullet wounds at all! I checked him! But you were a really big help, with all the questions you asked Peach.