[This is the first time he's used his device since, and he finds that it's apparently been put back to its default settings. So he fixes that before his next reply.]
Yes.
I'm not sure. I awoke roughly a day ago inside of a morgue in the Down.
My memories of what happened are still somewhat scattered.
[ Christ. Christ, that's... She feels sick. She should've stayed and tried to find which one was him. But she didn't. She's a fucking coward. ]
I heard people could come back from the dead but I didn't believe it or trust it. Shit. Are you sure you really want to remember? Obviously you remember I was with you.
text; four days after his death
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Dorian?
How are you alive?
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Yes.
I'm not sure. I awoke roughly a day ago inside of a morgue in the Down.
My memories of what happened are still somewhat scattered.
un: daimonori
I heard people could come back from the dead but I didn't believe it or trust it.
Shit.
Are you sure you really want to remember?
Obviously you remember I was with you.
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[He can't help but try to joke, to cover up the fact that it disturbed and terrified him.]
And I don't know. They've been coming back bit by bit on their own, but the last few moments are the clearest. Perhaps I should just wait.
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[ And despite saying the ball is in his court, she has to ask-- ]
Why did you do that for me?
Why did you try to save me?
You know what I am.
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I stepped in front of you because it afforded me a better shot.
I intended to kill them both and would have, had I been able to. So what does that make me?
[What Ava is hadn't influenced his actions, at all. But after a few seconds he sends another text.]
You tried far harder to save me than I would have, had our situations been reversed. But I am grateful for what you did.
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It makes you pragmatic and practical.
And I expected you to have kept yourself safe.
I don't think less of you for it.
[ Really, she doesn't. Survival is survival. ]
I'm sorry for what happened.
Honestly, I am.
It should've been me.
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I would have preferred it to be neither of us, personally. But had it been you, I imagine your struggle would have been even greater than my own.
I've spent half of the last day in a frenzy of lust, though it's passed now.
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I've already died. What's one more death going to do? And at least you wouldn't have needed to see my body. I would've turned to dust.
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And how would that have been much better? I might possess a crippling fear of dust, you know.
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[ Dorian's usual turned up to 15 sounds over the top. ]
Har har. Your clothes might have been stained with dried up skin. Oh, whatever would you do?
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No, it certainly doesn't. But what's done is done.
Burn them to destroy the offending dust?
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