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“Well, you’re here now,” Felix said, “and there’s got to be some purpose to it. You have been brainwashed into believing you have no worth whatsoever. I know otherwise. Look, I know it’s going to take a lot for you to believe me, but you eventually will. I’ll make sure of it.”
Eclipse didn't respond to that, only thinking of the multitude of times he'd been told,and forced to admit he was worthless.
“That’s exactly what they did to you, now isn’t it?” Felix said softly.
He sighed a bit. His energy was mostly depleted.
“Well, look. I need to rest a bit and hopefully we can go soon.”
Eclipse nodded quietly, forcing himself not to start crying, and failing miserably.
“Hey… hey, come here. It’s okay,” Felix called.
He wasn’t usually the best with emotions, but he was the only one really there for Eclipse right now, so he’d have to try.
“What can I do for you?”
Eclipse shook his head slightly, not knowing how to anser that question as he buried his face in his arms, allowing Thyra to finish ith his wounds.
Thyra finished bandaging up Eclipse and looked over to Felix.
“You know I don’t normally ask these things, but what’s going on here? What did you get involved in here?”
Felix laughed and shook his head.
“Quite some nasty business, as usual. You know how it is.”
“Were you hired to off someone in this town?”
“No. That’s not what happened here. I can promise you’ll catch word eventually, even if I don’t tell you.”
Eclipse tensed at that, worried she might tell the guards he'd been there, a choked himper of fear escaping before he could stop it.
Thrya bowed her head. “Dear, I already recognize who you are. Worry not, as far as I’m concerned, you never showed your face around here.”
“Besides,” Felix said, “I wasn’t talking about you so much as I was talking about what just happened.”
Eclipse nodded quitely, carefully pulling on his shirt again, trying not to agitate his wounds.
Felix let out an airy sigh. “So I suppose I do owe you an explanation, don’t I?”
He leaned his head back into the pillows a little more.
Eclipse looked up again, confused as he took a seat on the floor,focusing on coming back from not having several types of mental breakdowns, and an existential crisis.
“If you don’t mind…” Thyra said, her voice lowering.
“Iulius attacked me for the results of my last job, so I had to kill him. I won’t be coming back to this town in a long time, if ever at all,” Felix explained, “And since you don’t know Iulius…” he shifted his gaze to Eclipse, “He’s sort of my boss. He’s the middleman between requests and us assassins. Or he was…”
Eclipse listened carefully, somehow registering the fact that he was the reason Felix was almost dead.
“Should’ve expected as much though,” Felix said, “He was not exactly upstanding. I did manage to take whatever he had. Wasn’t nearly as much as what I was owed, but it should be enough to get us out of this place.”
Thyra nodded in understanding. “I see… well, he got what he deserved now didn’t he?”
Eclipse hummed softly to himself trying to focus on not crying again. He didn't need Felix to think he was a crybaby.
Felix started to nod, but Thyra drew closer to him.
"Felix, you're very pale. Do you want something else to drink? Then you need to rest, at least for a while."
"I… yeah…. That would probably be wise."
Thyra nodded and left the room for a minute.
"Eclipse," Felix whispered, "I'm serious. What can I do?"
"I don't know…" whispered Eclipse sadly in response. "I really don't…"
"That's alright," Felix replied, "We can figure that out together."
He shifted a bit, and the blanket started to fall off his shoulder. He pulled it back up abruptly.
Felix let out a long breath as a surge of pain shot into his side, and he closed his eyes.
Eclipse didn't notice the movement, hugging himself tightly as he thought about everything.
"You don't have to talk right now, but just know that you can, as soon as you find the words to say," Felix said, his teeth gritted slightly.
He didn't know why, but he was really starting to feel the pain now. The adrenaline from the whole situation was definitely gone now, and he was not meant to keep pushing.
Eclipse nodded quietly, "Thank you…" he whispered after a long pause.
"Of… of course," Felix sighed.
Another wave of nausea had set in. He had been able to act calm for a while, but the facade was starting to fall away. He groaned softly, burying himself deeper into the blankets.
Eclipse looked up at him worriedly, "Are you alright?" he asked.
"Not feeling so great," Felix admitted, "but I'll be fine."
A wave of heat passed over him and he curled into himself slightly to fight off the nausea.
Please don't throw up… That's the last thing I need…
"I'm… I'm also worried someone will find the body and try to hunt me down…"