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[brushoff]

He will be back, [ Dorian says, more to ground himself than to ground Misty. He'll be back. They'll bring him back to his room, Misty will make the request, Pagan'll pop up in a few minutes.

There's a pause before he admits, ]

Though I've got to say, it's fucking morbid dragging his body around like this.

[citizendetective]

You've done things like this before, right?

[She's done things like this before, for far darker reasons; she can't imagine that Dorian hasn't.]

[brushoff]

What, carried a body? Obviously.

[ Who do you think he is, Misty? ]

It's only been rare occasions that it's a body of someone close to me.

[citizendetective]

[Misty hesitates, then repeats quietly:]

He'll come back. It's seriously no big deal.

[The elevator doors ding open on Level 1.]

[brushoff]

I know that, [ Dorian points out, as he helps drag Pagan out of the elevator. ] But that doesn't mean it can't hurt.

[citizendetective]

Of course it hurts!

[She exhales sharply.]

But we can handle it.

[brushoff]

Of course we can, [ he nods, giving Misty a smile that he hopes is reassuring. ]

After all, it's not like this is the worst thing we've dealt with.

[citizendetective]

Exactly!

[She glances at him over Pagan's head, and her forcibly upbeat tone tempers itself a little.]

Are you-- how are you?

[brushoff]

As fine as I can be, [ Dorian sighs. ] It's been a long week.

[citizendetective]

Has it? Besides this?

[brushoff]

Jon Sims is in a coma, Petronilla shot me full of arrows, Kikimora apparently has a giant robot, and for the first half of this nonsense, my healing went kaput.

Death by a thousand small cuts, as it were.

[citizendetective]

Did Petronilla attack you before or after you got your healing back?

[brushoff]

Before.

I had some lovely little open wounds for a few hours as they healed up.