un: Dankovsky | video

[thantagonist]

[Daniil posts live from a café near the museum. He has no patience for typing responses, and his own visage should explain why. His nose has recently been broken and reset. He looks exhausted and irritated, but he has a duty.]

I need a couple people to come down to the café near that absurd museum with the sewn up fruit exhibits. Bring a stretcher, we have a patient who could use some more urgent treatment.

[From somewhere offscreen, a voice that is distinctly not Daniil’s states:] This Etrayan shot me in an attempt to get information I did not possess. I would appreciate his removal from my presence.

Now- That’s not true at all. That is not the reason you were stopped. [Daniil now regrets making a video, but what’s done is done. ]

Comments

[levelshift]

Why didn't he?

[thantagonist]

He joined the army. By choice or conscript, I don’t rightly know. I never asked, and he never told me.

[levelshift]

Well, if he ever shows up here it sounds like he'd be fucking useful.

[thantagonist]

It almost feels cruel to wish it on him, but we’ve been through worse together.

[He sighs, then huffs.]

Actually, I’m not sure which I prefer. No, wait, yes. This situation is more pleasant, if you can believe it.

[levelshift]

I can't. [He is extremely curious now.] What the hell do you mean?

[thantagonist]

Oh, just the situation I was in before was much, much worse. Trying to keep my head above water while a plague decimates a backwater town amidst riot and infection and a supply train that hasn’t visited in weeks. A place with no real hospital. Deaths in the thousands every day. Nowhere to dispose of corpses. Monsters crawl out of the earth. Then the Inquisition comes, then the military.

[His ears ring and it feels like his mind is trying to turn inside out trying to recall it.]

The violence here is ultimately avoidable and survivable. Hiding from a plague is impossible.

[levelshift]

I see. [He does, he really does!] I think people would be more scared of the fucking enforcers, and the tower since that violence is more immediate and upfront for them. But epidemics are way more fucking insidious.