COURT: Heart Game!

[upmoving]

[Your consciousness drifts in to the sound of discordant whispers. It sounds like a hushed argument in another room, something you can't quite catch. You're cold. Your skin tingles slightly, and then...]

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Re: the well

[upmoving]

[Evidently they cannot, but there is a startled sniffle from somewhere behind you.]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[He turns quickly, but doesn't raise the poker yet, that sounded kind of pitiful.]

Re: the well

[upmoving]

[It is very pitiful, this child looks about four or five and awfully banged up, as a four or five year old child who fell into a well would be. But he is also a familiar child so.]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[Hm.] [He could climb out of this well and leave the kid.] [He could.] [He kneels warily and looks him over instead.] Are you injured?

Re: the well

[upmoving]

[ssstaring at him really warily like he doesn't recognise him at all]

I'm-- It isn't serious...

[but he was still crying about it. No actually judging by the way he's holding his arm it's probably broken but he's acting very unnaturally aware of that injury instead of how a normal kid would react to it]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[Kid you're creepy but you're also a child and this is sad.] It looks broken. [He makes no move to touch or approach Ariel though, just observing.] Doesn't it hurt?

Re: the well

[upmoving]

It hurts, but...

[He looks down at it, pouting but visibly holding in a worse reaction. Sion's a stranger.]

Someone will fix it.

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

Does someone always fix it?

Re: the well

[upmoving]

Of course they do. Don't you know who I am?

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

I know you're stuck in a well.

Re: the well

[upmoving]

I [said with the kind of snotty arrogance only a tiny child or a complete ass can manage] am a pure blooded prince of this empire. You'll be gone soon if you don't learn.

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[Ah yes, what a perfectly unlikable kid.] [He reaches out and wraps his fingers around the broken arm, not hard, but any touch will hurt.]

Re: the well

[upmoving]

[It earns a yelp, and immediate crying. Good job.] Don't touch it!

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[He ignores that and runs his fingers over the injury, checking for swelling and the badness of the break in general.]

Re: the well

[upmoving]

[It's broken enough that the bones have just begun to shift, but in the scheme of breaks it's really not very bad. It's bad enough when you're a spoiled five year old though, so he's wailing.]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

You'll live. Do you know what you are, if I leave you in this well?

Re: the well

[upmoving]

You can't do that! [Sorry Sion you have a tantrum-throwing baby on your hands now.]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[He'll quietly wait out any shouting and stomping or whatever Ariel does, kind of completely ignoring him except to keep an eye on him so he doesn't attack or something.] [Idly scoping out handholds for climbing out.]

Re: the well

[upmoving]

[He hasn't built up to attacking people yet, he's just crying and fussing and generally being a brat.]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[Waits until he exhausts himself with it before acknowledging his existence again.] I was dragged here from the isolated tower of a very sad child. But what you are is a little brat. Why is it connected?

Re: the well

[upmoving]

I don't know... [Just. Sad exhausted hiccups.]

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

....

[God does it matter. The kid's a spoiled little monster but he's still part of a heart. He sighs and turns and crouches to give him a hug.]

I can climb out of here.

Re: the well

[upmoving]

[what is this what are hugs??? he tenses, then tentatively clings onto Sion with his good hand, whining tiredly]

...Don't go...

Re: the well

[restorefromsave]

[Hugs are what you're getting, how about that. He keeps his arms around the kid, warm and safe.]

I won't leave you alone. But you need to behave.

Re: the well

[upmoving]

I'll be good.

[Look at this smile it's the beginnings of a charming little liar.]

I will, so don't leave me.