Been rotating a fbafish scene i could do with the compass. Kevin's out on the mistress's whaling ship, and the mistress leaves the compass where, idk a young kid or servant or something gets ahold of it and plays with it not knowing what it actually is. And they turn the slider for the pain in his connected brand all the way up. Been debating how exactly long its left like that, but its awhile before she notices.
From kevin and co pov, it looks like she just turned it on? For a reason surely? They mostly just see him waking up screaming, which isnt all that uncommon, the nightmares yknow. But then quinn realizes he is actually awake. At that level of pain hed be basically incoherent but I think they'd figure it out. (Maybe it glows when activated?)
Quinn takes charge in caretaker mode, getting cold seawater on it with a towel (I'm still deciding on the extent of his healing factor, but this isnt the healing power of seawater its the ocean is the closest thing to ice water they have in 1630s or whenever exactly this is)
And he gets the captain to turn around because she's clearly summoning them back, and if not, then hes useless like this anyway. And he gets the ship doctor to bring the good stuff. Would i be evil for making earthly pain relievers not work on magic pain? Idk if opium knocks you out or if getting rid of the pain is what helps you sleep on opioids, but he would get relief in sleep at least.
Imagining him choking out pleas and apologies, and quinn reassuring him that hes ok, hes not in trouble, its okay, we're heading back to the mistress,,
and then at some point it stops. Maybe the distance slider was set to a point they pass, maybe the mistress notices it finally, left open on some table. The crew comes back to port anyway, quinn and kevin need to see the mistress.
Kevin is muzzled and chained the way he always is in the mistress's house, and made to kneel before her as quinn talks to her and figures out what happened. The mistress isnt the kind of whumper who hurts for the sole purpose of causing pain. Its always correction, obedience training, the only way to get the dumb beast to do anything. But also she doesnt really, yknow, Care that he was in all that unnecessary pain. Its stopped now, why are you making a big deal over it?
Quinn tries to explain that causing that kind of pain when he isnt doing anything wrong messes with the training (while hes still right there, muzzled like a dog) and shes all dismissive like, Well it was a mistake amd I still pay you to handle its training and keep it in line, so. Anything else you need to say?
And quinn tries to say something to ask her to be more careful, but its clear she still doesnt really care all that much.
So they go back out and finish the voyage. Kevin would be cagy about having just shown such weakness and having the power keeping him leashed actually Demonstrated to the crew. He might even fear for a bit going in the water or too far from the boat while in the water, because if it happens again like that they would loose him, and he wouldn't be able to move or especially hunt and eat, so if it goes for long enough he would just die. And he doesnt want that.
But he pushes past that, and eventually things go back to normal. Just another thing for him to have nightmares about :)