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Who: Noric, anyone
When: Day 52, early morning
Where: the common room
What: the fabled priest insanity of old

[It's early enough that most of the inhabitants of the common room right now are the dead batmonkey corpses. One person, though, is standing with one hand pressed to the glass, heedless of the blood stains on it.]

Wrong. This world is wrong ... I can't feel it here. There's nothing...

[Oh goody he's talking to himself in disturbing ways. Engage?]

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[intellectum]

Don't.

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[shuts his eyes, breathing going quiet.]

[intellectum]

[closes his eyes briefly, pained]

[untempered]

[faint flickers of confusion, heavy and leaden.]

Xavier...?

[intellectum]

Noric?

[untempered]

[turns to look in his direction, though his eyes are slightly unfocused.]

I was downstairs...

[intellectum]

[taking his hand]

I took you up.

[untempered]

You did?

[frowns]

Yes...

[intellectum]

I did.

[untempered]

I was... I was going to...

[it's still hard to track his emotions, but they're tangible again.]

[intellectum]

You don't have to say it if you don't want to.

[untempered]

N-no... I can't quite remember.

[intellectum]

...

It's fine.

[untempered]

[his grip on Xavier's hand is tight, as he struggles with his own mind.]

[intellectum]

[keeping it clenched]

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[it takes a good few minutes, as the fog slowly pushes back. he mutters sometimes, "Her voice" and "I can't" and other things besides, but he makes it in the end.]

[intellectum]

[waits it out, tight-lipped]

[untempered]

[blinks finally, and looks at him, gaze clear.]

I'm sorry.

[intellectum]

[bends his head, crying quietly]

[untempered]

[sits up, drawing Xavier down into a hug.]

[intellectum]

[his emotions are muted, still he clings to Noric tightly]

[untempered]

[threads a hand into Xavier's hair, murmuring quiet things to him, in the old Orion tongue.]

[intellectum]

[choked laugh]

I never know what you're saying.

[untempered]

"It will be all right." My mother used to tell me so, when I was upset.

[intellectum]

Do you believe it?