un: trienemybest; video

[droptheious]

[The video feed opens in Varian's creepy basement lab where health and safety regulations go to die. The boy himself isn't looking that great, his skin has a grey-ish tinge to it and he looks more exhausted than usual. But that's fine, he's fine. He turns the camera around to take in some sapphires on his workbench. Some are soaking in various chemical substances, some are under a microscope, some are in various steampunk-y machines: it's clear some testing has been going on. ]

So, Flynn was kind enough to give me some of the crystals that grew on his corpse during...whatever weird new thing death is here. [He doesn't sound as excited about this as his usual projects and anyone who knows about his deeply unfortunate past will know why.] I have experience in creepy, magical death rocks -no...no I'm not going to elaborate on that- so I decided to study them. They seem to be crystalising the actual cells of the body- so not just a separate coating. I also found traces of warmblood within the crystals themselves, which I think is what Flynn is? A-anyway, it seems they're working on a cellular level, like they're what jumpstarts the reversal of the cell degeneration after death- so- so it's possible they're what reverses then entire process.

Anyway, moral of the story is, they're probably super important in resurrecting people so maybe don't mess with the process when it's happening? Of course, without having any other samples to compare this to, it's all conjecture right now.

[A beat, he turns the camera back to himself, grimacing.]

Sorry, I forgot who I was talking to. Please don't take that as encouragement to get yourselves killed in the name of science.

[Another beat, then he waves a hand airily.]

Thaaaaaat said, this is October, so statistically, there's a high chance that a not-insignificant portion of the population will be dead by the end of the month. So...if you wanna donate your death crystals for science then, that would be less...morally grey. Probably? Probably.

Comments

[thinkfirst]

That's a lie and you know it. According to Varian's findings it's very possible that had you really done nothing, I wouldn't have come back.

[vibing]

i did do nothing
i specifically did nothing because these guys kept saying i should do nothing
could have been worse if i did something

cant you give this a rest

[thinkfirst]

Specifically doing nothing is very different from "I didn't do anything."

[vibing]

no its just doing nothing

thank smokey if you want to thank someone

[thinkfirst]

[ Instead of responding to this, Flynn does three things.

1. He settles at the desk in their room to write an elaborately-calligraphed letter reading "Thank you, Yuri, for doing nothing."

2. He sends Daisy to go find Smokey.

3. Having done that, and after greeting Smokey with some pets and a mutual nuzzle, he hands the rolled-up letter to Smokey with instructions to take it to Yuri.

Your move, Lowell. ]

[vibing]

[ And Smokey is just annoying enough to do it, too, smugly depositing the letter in Yuri's lap as he cleans his sword in the backyard. He stares down at the letter, bemused, and when he unrolls it, it doesn't really get better. He stares at the writing with a twist of his lips.

And do you know what he does?

Nothing.

You're welcome.

He doesn't mention it, at all. Not today, not tomorrow. Not until Flynn breaks. ]