Most people are doing better than "not dead yet", Kid. Are you traveling with someone who can help you, or are you on your own again? [It's easy to shift the topic off of something Stein doesn't find very interesting to talk about (his own mental state) to something interesting (anyone else and what they're doing).]
While you might be correct in your semantics, I would argue that you have died at least three times since I have arrived and I have yet to die once. "Yet" seems appropriate.
[Shivering, Kid curls beneath his jacket and cloak as much as he can, the bedsheet added to the conglomeration of linen for warmth.]
I am traveling with Frisk and have been trying to slip away from them for days. Everyone I travel with dies, and I am not eager to press the theory to see if they may become an exception.
I am not going to be responsible for killing them.
[Kid hasn't been very stern here, not often, but his tone is as firm as he can manage.]
I have been eating as often as I am able [Read: not often and it's clearly not doing much] taking the cough medication Dr. Watson prescribed exactly as he's told me [It doesn't work well but he's following instructions!] and sleeping at night for as close to eight hours as I can [Sometimes more when he just knocks out!]
I am aware that I do not look well. I know that I am not well--but I am following the instructions I have been given as best as I can. And I am not going to risk Frisk being killed just because it seems like traveling with someone else is a good idea.
You are not responsible for anyone's deaths here, Kid. [Where are Liz and Patti when you need them? Kid's going to get himself trapped in a loop that Stein can't shock him out of.]
[For a moment, he's silent, and all that there is to see are thin, cold-blistered fingers tugging anxiously at his the hair hanging in his eye. It is too late to convince the teen that he is not a harbinger of death--best now is damage control.]
The matter is not up for debate. I was not seeking your opinion.
[Still, something about his uncertain expression is less than convincing, and Kid swallows. The wheezing seems worse than earlier in the conversation, a potential byproduct of his own anxiety.]
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Date: 2017-03-18 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-23 07:11 am (UTC)[Shivering, Kid curls beneath his jacket and cloak as much as he can, the bedsheet added to the conglomeration of linen for warmth.]
I am traveling with Frisk and have been trying to slip away from them for days. Everyone I travel with dies, and I am not eager to press the theory to see if they may become an exception.
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Date: 2017-03-26 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-03-30 10:10 am (UTC)[Kid hasn't been very stern here, not often, but his tone is as firm as he can manage.]
I have been eating as often as I am able [Read: not often and it's clearly not doing much] taking the cough medication Dr. Watson prescribed exactly as he's told me [It doesn't work well but he's following instructions!] and sleeping at night for as close to eight hours as I can [Sometimes more when he just knocks out!]
I am aware that I do not look well. I know that I am not well--but I am following the instructions I have been given as best as I can. And I am not going to risk Frisk being killed just because it seems like traveling with someone else is a good idea.
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Date: 2017-04-17 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-19 02:56 pm (UTC)The matter is not up for debate. I was not seeking your opinion.
[Still, something about his uncertain expression is less than convincing, and Kid swallows. The wheezing seems worse than earlier in the conversation, a potential byproduct of his own anxiety.]
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Date: 2017-04-21 04:31 am (UTC)