[ Obviously he's hallucinating. But that doesn't make the body any less horrible and taunting and accusing and terrifying. It still hangs in the doorway, brought up short by chains around its neck and arms, the sack-cloth over its head concealing what must be staring eyes. There's a hollow roaring in Daniel's ears.
No. No, obviously he's hallucinating.
Cue the realisation that not only did he see that, but he saw it and reacted to it right in front of Phil. Which really is its own whole brand of bad. ]
I - I -
[ Of course, Philip knows that he sees things sometimes - but Daniel doesn't want to remind him, especially doesn't want to hallucinate so badly in front of him, for so many reasons. ]
Per- perhaps I should not go out after all, this... this morning.
[ He lowers his head and fumbles to open a bedside drawer one-handed. There's laudinum in there, unless the event's snatched it away. Laudinum does shit-all to refill a sanity meter, but it makes him feel better anyway.
...How he'll drink it underwater is a question he will get to in a minute. ]
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No. No, obviously he's hallucinating.
Cue the realisation that not only did he see that, but he saw it and reacted to it right in front of Phil. Which really is its own whole brand of bad. ]
I - I -
[ Of course, Philip knows that he sees things sometimes - but Daniel doesn't want to remind him, especially doesn't want to hallucinate so badly in front of him, for so many reasons. ]
Per- perhaps I should not go out after all, this... this morning.
[ He lowers his head and fumbles to open a bedside drawer one-handed. There's laudinum in there, unless the event's snatched it away. Laudinum does shit-all to refill a sanity meter, but it makes him feel better anyway.
...How he'll drink it underwater is a question he will get to in a minute. ]