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[overstrain]

TERRENCE NOWELL

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(Note: Terry gave Kido his phone. Bought his own flipphone on 8/26!)

He has a stall set up in the market street for locating things. Feel free to thread it out with an inbox action thread or handwave it!

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[ When Mondo usually says things like that, Terry would give him an automatic retort in an attempt to reassure Mondo that he's always needed. That's he's always wanted. That he's not a burden. That there's always a point to him being here. But none of that comes out today. He's quiet as another tear falls from his eye. And another. And another... And some more. His dead heart utterly breaks, not in two, but into a million pieces. His breath is caught in his throat.

He completely breaks down. ]

You didn't do anything like that! It was me! I should have known better! I put you in danger! I asked you to stay on the first floor with me, even though I shouldn't have! I...

[ He has cried so much in the past few days. Sometimes it's a wonder as to why he still has tears left to cry. ]

I was the one who couldn't protect anyone!!

[ It's so hard to articulate with choked sobs. ]

I was the one who should have gone back immediately to the hospital after we got the coin so that you could have been healed from the poison! I was the one who should have gone through everything quickly!

[ They're all what-ifs he thought about, and he doesn't like them. However, those were the only things that plagued his mind for the past several days. What could he have done to prevent them from dying? But the events had been set and there was no point to them. It only hurt him so much. ]