lets take ibuprofen together . @fooltarot asked: ibuprofen only works if you take 50 at a time
“I see, so they’ve made these bottles all single-dose? And they’re for any aches and pains?” Odd, it seemed incredibly nonsensical to do that, but you could understand it from a corporate sense. Kind of. The taste was acrid, but you did as you'd been instructed. The scouts were typically incompetent, yes, but they were at the very least people who tried their best to help you whenever you were noticeably struggling.
You knew better than to take any of the lower scouts at their word now.
A lapse of judgment, you were sure of it now, was why you currently felt like God himself had run a hot iron through your guts. Why, only mere hours after doing what the scout had suggested, the usual aches had transformed into something much worse. Poisoned, you were sure of it now, fear and rage lancing through like steel in the back of your skull, gods it felt like ---rage and something bright. Your head fucking ached.
Hands drew your cloak tighter around your trembling form.
No amount of self-purging had helped, heartbeat unstable and heavy with each seizing gasp you took. It’d only been a few hours. You needed to find that scout, you needed to --
You recognized the copper tang of blood and bile, knew that the pain was much more serious this time than the previous poisoning attempts, had brushed them off. The native fauna weren’t a threat. This was not native. The walk from the [?] to your palace wing had been abrupt, unremarkable.
You recognized the copper tang of blood and b█le, knew that the pain was much more serious this time.
███ [?] but ███ did not act.
It’d only been a few ██u█s. You needed to find that scout. You did not try to move from your place on the floor █f your study. You did not know when you arrived here, couldn’t ██c█gni█e the fact you were laying down on the ground, not moving the way you were telling yourself t█.
Couldn’t hear things right, couldn’t see the [?] of the █████ when they entered, couldn’t recognize the sound of someone ███████. █████████. Saying something ███████████ [?] [?], they were always so boring. [?] must’ve been █magining it bec█use [?] were go█e n█w. █████.
