#and yay ok then that won’t be a problem. smart sir balderdash

[exactinglywormish]

‘I… want to be.’

A teardrop leaks out of their eye and they wipe it away with a sniffle.

‘Rismus- I think Rismus thinks I am… he’s so lovely and generous and so kind. I just…’ They take a big breath.

‘I’m not really… I’m just a fraud. A fake in the wrong shape. I’m still a..’ They shake their head and try to stop more tears instead.

Since he’s the one who set up the portal, Balderdash obviously included an alert that would let him know when Dr Worm returned through it. Unfortunately, when said alarm goes off he’s in the middle of treating an entire group of interns who got drunk and decided to summon the Scissors God. After puzzle-piecing someone’s arm back together, he gets a minute free to send off messages to his phone.

The first is to Dr Worm, of course. “I’m so glad you’re home. Medbay is experiencing a crisis at þe moment but if you need me let me know and I will be þere. Oþerwise I shll see yiu in some number of hiurs. I love you.”

Then another to Rismus, significantly more rushed because someone just started screaming somewhere behind him. “James is backif you are not already wiþ þem. If you happen to check uiur phone before James please tkel þem j love þem,. Good luck”

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The screaming turned out to be because one of the interns had been chosen as the new avatar of the Scissors God. Which resulted in a fresh batch of victims, and also a crazed teenager with scissors for a head running around that had to be contained somehow. Many hours later, after sewing on more severed limbs than he would have predicted seeing in his entire life, he stumbles his way to his rooms. He’s about to go through the portal when he realizes he’s still extremely covered in blood, and that probably won’t be a positive thing for Dr Worm to see at the moment. After a quick shower, and also briefly falling asleep in the shower, he finally makes it through to Dr Worm’s rooms and starts looking for them.

((@exactinglywormish :) also @bitz-n-bytez although Rismus in no way has to appear in this one. He can be asleep (or whatever his equivalent is) or have left to go somewhere. This is mostly just cause he’s mentioned.))