SCAWWY 😱 iwatooshi

[concoctive]

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[naginota]

[ whatever magic is in this place is cruel, iwatooshi thinks, as the story unfolds. it's nothing he hasn't heard of before - someone taking advantage of another's kindness, only to turn around and abuse it. but it makes his heart ache, for one like alfyn to suffer for it. he is so painfully human, in all the best ways, but it's that open heart of his that leaves him vulnerable to heartbreak like this.

iwatooshi reaches out to place his hand over both of theirs, another layer of reassurance. ]

You are a kind man, Alfyn-dono, to try to save as many lives as you do. Very few can speak to the level of dedication that you show each day. I'm certain that she felt your care, even in her last moments.

...I know that doesn't make it any easier, knowing what happened. But you can't blame yourself, when all you were doing was trying to help who you could. Kindness isn't a mistake, especially when your memories and experience have been stolen from you. You are not at fault.

[concoctive]

[ he hiccups miserably, trying not to scrub at the cut on his face as he rubs at his eyes. it - helps, in some way. iwatooshi is very, very old, but he's not like the immortals that they've had to fight. he's een a lot, surely, and known many even before scawwy was having its foundations built.

it dulls the pain, if only a little. but every little bit of kindness is a gem to someone like alfyn. he will blame himself, but... he'll try to leave that path to let go of the feeling. ]

She... she didn't want to disappear. But Miguel, he was givin' me poisons when I was tryin' to make the medicines to help her - the woman that was... that was behind it all, she did somethin'. She was there, at first, when he brought me there. Asked me to try and treat her, 'cause nobody else would. She was...

Her magic was wrong. It made me want to leave. But I couldn't, not when she was so small, and scared. [ he shakes his head vigorously at the idea. ] But I think... it was an illusion. I didn't realize that it was - that anythin' was poisoned until the little girl was dead, and I was holdin' somethin' I'd never give a patient.

[naginota]

Of course not.

[ someone so young who had so much to live for... of course she wouldn't want to die. but iwatooshi listens patiently, frown deepening. taking advantage of someone is one thing, but actively forcing a healer to kill?

he's concerned about this woman and her magic, too, but alfyn is more important. ]

...Then it's no wonder you're taking it so hard. You were tricked, and your kindness made into a weapon. [ this is going to haunt him for the rest of his days, iwatooshi thinks. he's too kind not to hold onto it as some kind of personal failure, even if it really wasn't his fault. ] I'm sorry they did this to you, Alfyn-dono. Neither you nor the girl you tried to save deserved this treatment.