[ Jasper freezes where he kneels, holding the cut on his hand closed tightly as he can. Seconds tick by as he stares at his bunkmate, unable to hide horrified eyes. It's as if Corvo reached into his dreams and pulled forth the horrors he can't describe, things he has been seeing and smelling and hearing in the dark ever since the shuttle crash on Ajna. Terrifying, unexplainable and foreign things that were then amplified by a chance encounter with a stranger on Selena, a man who could float and had eyes black as void. He had been warned not to speak with that man.
He still hadn't told Corvo that he did.
The startlingly accurate description is what paralyzes him. Yes, he won't admit to it, but yes to everything. To the whalsongs and screams, the grinding of bone on bone and the screeching of rats. It's the sound of his own blood dripping on the floor, splashing in droplets to the blood already there in puddles, that snaps him out of his sudden and horrified stupor. ]
I-it's fine. It'll be fine. I'll go... go see Anders, y-yeah.
[ He's assuming Anders is a Blue team healer in Medical. The name keeps coming up in that sort of context. He gets to his feet, awkwardly and wobbling and still clutching his bleeding hand, but he stands. He doesn't look at Corvo, can't look, before turning on his heel as fast and heading out faster. He would go to Medical, and maybe if this Anders was there, would go to him like Corvo said. But he would only be there about the cut. He would avoid confronting the stuff of his nightmares as long as possible, because that's all they are... nightmares. Only nightmares, only bad dreams.
He repeats the mantra in his thoughts all the way to Medical. ]
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He still hadn't told Corvo that he did.
The startlingly accurate description is what paralyzes him. Yes, he won't admit to it, but yes to everything. To the whalsongs and screams, the grinding of bone on bone and the screeching of rats. It's the sound of his own blood dripping on the floor, splashing in droplets to the blood already there in puddles, that snaps him out of his sudden and horrified stupor. ]
I-it's fine. It'll be fine. I'll go... go see Anders, y-yeah.
[ He's assuming Anders is a Blue team healer in Medical. The name keeps coming up in that sort of context. He gets to his feet, awkwardly and wobbling and still clutching his bleeding hand, but he stands. He doesn't look at Corvo, can't look, before turning on his heel as fast and heading out faster. He would go to Medical, and maybe if this Anders was there, would go to him like Corvo said. But he would only be there about the cut. He would avoid confronting the stuff of his nightmares as long as possible, because that's all they are... nightmares. Only nightmares, only bad dreams.
He repeats the mantra in his thoughts all the way to Medical. ]