C-4, I do that damage—My ego is titanic
The stick rolls and hits Kaisel's foot. It's a gentle tap, requesting him to be a bit braver and face his cousin fully. He plucks the flower as he pivots, spinning the stem back and forth between a thumb and forefinger. The petals sway as it dances in hand, merry.
"Yeah, I guess Jack dumped her when—" A pause. A quiet search of Koa's face, an attempt to ascertain what information to provide when so that his cousin can remain upright the longest. Koa has been uh, ready to crash out frequently lately. The Family taking over your home, booting out your ruler and ex, exiling you to the untamed wilderness, and infecting your darling little sister with brain worms can do that to a man, understandably. So Kaisel really is trying to be gentle, even if it's an ache inside not to blurt it all out and proudly announce that they should immediately kiss. Flora and Koa that is; Kaisel might admire Koa but he has no intention of swapping spit with his cousin.
"Well you know, she was infected, right?" Kaisel cocks his head slightly, and the flower comes to a stop between his fingers. "I ran into her at the Silk Houses, when she was brainwashed. I hadn't seen her in so long, I didn't really notice, but something was still, off, yanno? Mainly because she blamed herself for the family killing her." That had been a red flag, to say the least. Sorry I died, my bad. The memory of it still rankles him.
The more Kaisel tries to pace it out and be tender, the more he realizes he might be letting the heat of this Brazilian wax be cooling down too much. He just wants the stray hairs gone, not all the skin with it. "Anyway, that broadcast called her out when she got cured. So I went to see her, to be sure what was up since that night I saw her wasn't sitting right." Kaisel frowns, a hand placed on Koa's shoulders in solidarity and support. "She was a fucking mess dude. Said Jack didn't trust her, and that she made them unsafe. Because..." Gods he hadn't realize how much shit she'd gotten into until attempting to regurgitate it clearly. "Now that she's cured, Torchline is getting protected. But she can't benefit from the protection, or else Dahlia threatened to go after the people she cares about. So, the safest place to be for any of those people is in Torchline, but then it's a bit limiting, so I guess Jack was pissed." Kaisel's hands fall away and cross against his chest, preparing for Koa's complete understanding to arrive at last, and the ultimate point of all of this.
"So I helped her move. She's gonna live on a boat now." He smiles faintly, because not all of the memories of this most recent shit show are terrible. Reconnecting with Flora had been worth it, for one, although he happily would have done so under better conditions. "This is your chance, Koa. I know you loved her." Love? Kaisel isn''t really certain you ever stop loving a woman. "Go get her back."
"Yeah, I guess Jack dumped her when—" A pause. A quiet search of Koa's face, an attempt to ascertain what information to provide when so that his cousin can remain upright the longest. Koa has been uh, ready to crash out frequently lately. The Family taking over your home, booting out your ruler and ex, exiling you to the untamed wilderness, and infecting your darling little sister with brain worms can do that to a man, understandably. So Kaisel really is trying to be gentle, even if it's an ache inside not to blurt it all out and proudly announce that they should immediately kiss. Flora and Koa that is; Kaisel might admire Koa but he has no intention of swapping spit with his cousin.
"Well you know, she was infected, right?" Kaisel cocks his head slightly, and the flower comes to a stop between his fingers. "I ran into her at the Silk Houses, when she was brainwashed. I hadn't seen her in so long, I didn't really notice, but something was still, off, yanno? Mainly because she blamed herself for the family killing her." That had been a red flag, to say the least. Sorry I died, my bad. The memory of it still rankles him.
The more Kaisel tries to pace it out and be tender, the more he realizes he might be letting the heat of this Brazilian wax be cooling down too much. He just wants the stray hairs gone, not all the skin with it. "Anyway, that broadcast called her out when she got cured. So I went to see her, to be sure what was up since that night I saw her wasn't sitting right." Kaisel frowns, a hand placed on Koa's shoulders in solidarity and support. "She was a fucking mess dude. Said Jack didn't trust her, and that she made them unsafe. Because..." Gods he hadn't realize how much shit she'd gotten into until attempting to regurgitate it clearly. "Now that she's cured, Torchline is getting protected. But she can't benefit from the protection, or else Dahlia threatened to go after the people she cares about. So, the safest place to be for any of those people is in Torchline, but then it's a bit limiting, so I guess Jack was pissed." Kaisel's hands fall away and cross against his chest, preparing for Koa's complete understanding to arrive at last, and the ultimate point of all of this.
"So I helped her move. She's gonna live on a boat now." He smiles faintly, because not all of the memories of this most recent shit show are terrible. Reconnecting with Flora had been worth it, for one, although he happily would have done so under better conditions. "This is your chance, Koa. I know you loved her." Love? Kaisel isn''t really certain you ever stop loving a woman. "Go get her back."
Kaisel
I woke up in self-destruction mode—Watch me go, I'ma do it again
Wearing a watery blue, faded and stretched-out sparkling hair tie on his left wrist
