Inbox: Pumpkin Hollow

[lovinglefthand]

An In-Character inbox for First Aid, chief clinician and surgeon at the Winterbottom clinic.

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[graveling]

They try to be. It's hard, with the barrier. I talked with Mortanne, once, about it.

[Yes, like had a whole literal conversation with her.]

[lovinglefthand]

With -- with the goddess? In person?

...Is it okay to ask about it? I don't want to be rude.

[graveling]

Yeah, you're okay to ask. It...was kind of in person. In a dream, though. Mortanne's domain is the Beyond, and that's not just death. It's dreams, too.

[lovinglefthand]

Oh wow...I didn't know. What was it like? What did you talk about?

[graveling]

I originally wanted to talk to her about my nightmares, the fact that...I don't need sleep, but sometimes sleeping next to Eddie would be nice instead of just waiting all night for him, you know? But we talked about a lot more than that. The barrier, Degas. She let me ride in her carriage while we talked.

[He's still vaguely awed by the experience and that comes out in his voice.]

[lovinglefthand]

[First Aid is awed as well.]

That's amazing, Angel. That's...wow. Really, really amazing.

Er. Did she have any advice for us? Anything we should be doing differently or...better?

[graveling]

She did have some things to say about the barrier. How they can't give us the answers because figuring out what is going on is a part of breaking the curse. Us calling on them, honoring them, invoking them gives them more ability to get through the barrier to act.

[lovinglefthand]

So they can't help us unless we ask for it first? [He's glad he thought to ask for a blessing, in that case...] But I suppose there are probably reasons why we can't just ask them how to take the barrier down, right?

[graveling]

Figuring it out is part of breaking the curse. Giving us the answers will not work in this case.

[lovinglefthand]

Oh. Well, gosh. That's awkward.

[Understatement, First Aid.]


Have you been talking to anyone else about this? Because, honestly...outside of diagnostics, I've never been very good at logic puzzles...I think this is definitely going to be a group effort, Angel.

[graveling]

I've told Jean and River. But I don't really know...how to best tell everyone?

[lovinglefthand]

I get it. It's a really personal thing, right?

What if...you wrote down the important things that other people need to know, and had someone else tell them? Like in a meeting?