[pain can do that: cutting off will, cutting off choice, the body's way of forcing the wounded to rest. he's right that she has seen combat experience. she'll never unsee some of it.
Cheris has no other information about this man, but he seems... very lost. or maybe to have lost something. hollowed out, somehow, in a way she's seen in some soldiers. she hopes he can figure out how the burn paste works.]
Okay. I'll be right back.
[and because a crisis is always easier to bear if you go through it doing something:] Can you watch for other survivors outside the train while I'm in there? My augment's not working so I can't contact anyone. If no one can connect to the planetary grid, we'll have to organize manually.
[she has yet to find her phone and there didn't seem to be any terminals on the train, so it doesn't occur to her that there's a local network which might be accessed in a different way.]
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Cheris has no other information about this man, but he seems... very lost. or maybe to have lost something. hollowed out, somehow, in a way she's seen in some soldiers. she hopes he can figure out how the burn paste works.]
Okay. I'll be right back.
[and because a crisis is always easier to bear if you go through it doing something:] Can you watch for other survivors outside the train while I'm in there? My augment's not working so I can't contact anyone. If no one can connect to the planetary grid, we'll have to organize manually.
[she has yet to find her phone and there didn't seem to be any terminals on the train, so it doesn't occur to her that there's a local network which might be accessed in a different way.]