goldencharms | FOR INFY!!!

Who wouldn't worry about something like that?! Aphrodisiacs aren't meant to be so literal!

[No. No, no, no, nope, absolutely not. He is not going to be the one to have the "you cannot give consent if you're drunk" conversation with Kalim. That's Lilia's responsibility. Whoever..... deflowered Kalim..... Jamil refuses to damage their relationship by pointing out they forced themselves onto him. Odds are both parties were drugged, after all--they probably couldn't help it any more than Kalim could. Not that it makes things any better, by any means.....

If anything, it only makes Jamil's pure disgust for this whole situation and their captors burn that much deeper. What kind of sick bastards would do this to people?!]

I see now why they try to force refreshments onto people.

But they don't need to... My head's gotten messed up a lot. Even now...

[ he trails off, thinking. Actually, more like observing Jamil. His worry over how upset Jamil is taking precedence over the venom, at least for now.

he knows that he's stressed... and Kalim doesn't want to be part of making it worse. ]

How so?

[Kalim doesn't eat or drink outside his own home anymore, and he still ends up drugged somehow? To say that's troubling would be an understatement. How else are they even supposed to protect themselves, at this point? How could he not be stressed out, knowing they're apparently constantly at risk with no way to hold onto their senses and sound judgment?!]

Mmngh... Magic? Weather...?

.....Excuse me?

[What the fuck. What the fuck. What kind of godsforsaken hellscape is this? Is magic mind-altering weather seriously naturally-occurring? How? Why?!]

That's why I didn't want to tell you! I don't want you to worry! Especially since someone like you would be really careful, and maybe it wouldn't affect you at all...

Who wouldn't worry about magic weather?! Somehow, I don't think remembering to carry an umbrella would be enough to make any difference.....

[Kalim has way, way too much faith in him, if he thinks just being careful is enough to somehow negate entire weather patterns. Maybe they weren't kidnapped at all. Maybe they've all just died, and this is Hell.]

There were masks! Just... sometimes they broke...

[ jamil absolutely would not have made that mistake. ever. ]

.....

[They had to wear masks just to go outside, masks which were prone to breaking for some reason. Probably by design, if the rest of this cesspool of a city is anything to go by. That means it has to be something airborne, and houses and apartments most certainly aren't airtight. The evidence for this being Hell is mounting more and more by the second.

Give him a minute to just..... stop thousand yard staring into the distance, and pull out his device to add masks to a shopping list. Better to have something like that before it becomes necessary. Let him guess, are there no sorts of weather forecasts that could predict what should be rightly considered some kind of natural disaster? Of course there wouldn't be. Could you even tell it was happening, before you unwittingly stepped outside and lost your mind?]

Jamil...?

[ he just watches him go quiet, and is... confused-- but also... he isn't confused, he knew this would upset him. ]

Ahaha... Sorry.

It's not your fault. There's no planning around what I don't know about; I'm..... glad you told me. Thank you.

[Jamil just shakes his head dismissively, scrubbing at his face in wordless weariness. Better to find out about this from Kalim now, than walk face-first into it and be confused and taken by surprise..... As if there wasn't enough already to try and think of contingencies for. These rabbit creatures are already a nasty enough unknown to deal with.]

Oh...

Well, you can plan later, right?

[ he just wants to spend time with him now, not see him spiral needlessly ]

I suppose..... But even so, that still doesn't mean we can just sit on our laurels.

[Not when there's still the issue that sparked this whole conversation to begin with. Excuse him if he glances at Kalim's device; does Rayne or Floyd have anything to say about these tiny menaces?]

[ rayne has nothing. floyd probably has not responded. ]

We could do something else in the meantime, then!

What did you have in mind?

[Sigh. Who knows how quick Floyd will be to respond without knowing what his mood is at the moment? He could just as easily respond in 10 minutes or 10 hours.]

[ he thinks about this, ]

We could watch a movie?

Wait, no, a lot of them have sex here.

Music is only good if we go outside, I think... The ones with music also have a ton of stuff about sex in them.

Have you seen how many rabbits are out there? That hardly seems like a wise course of action.

[Absolutely not. It's bad enough that Kalim's already been bitten; he has no intention of risking himself unnecessarily. Unless, of course, it's to walk Kalim home and make sure he doesn't end up in an even worse state somehow.....]

Oh... Right. You would struggle a lot more if you got bit too, huh?

One of us has to stay healthy, just in case the symptoms get worse.

[He admits nothing. He's just being careful, it's definitely nothing deeper than that. Why would Kalim ever think he'd struggle more with being honest? That's just ridiculous.]

Oh I thought it was because you lie a lot more.

[ hmm, but he seems to be accepting that answer...... ]

[Ahem. Moving on without acknowledging that! You don't have to call him out like this!!]

Either way, we shouldn't go outside uneccessarily. I'm sure we can find something to occupy ourselves that isn't completely tasteless.

[ it's hard when everything involves sex... and they can't go outside. Kalim is thinking, thinking.

getting distracted, and not focusing. there's no real idea, he just seems to have completely stalled out for the moment. ]

.....Kalim? Are you feeling okay?

[Great, don't him Kalim's broken somehow. Does he need to lie down for a nap or something?]

Eh?

[ he opens his eyes, and then laughs, completely cheerful ]

Oh! Sorry... I felt a little like I was blanking out for a second. I can't think of anything that isn't a little impacted by this place, if you don't wanna go outside!

[Does he really have to worry him like that? Geez..... He's not even the one causing the spacing out these days.]

I'm not so easily offended that I can't handle vulgar subject matter, if that's what you're worried about. If nothing else, you can at least stay for dinner; I'd just about finished by the time you came.

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