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[palissant]

[No response can be gained via comms. He isn't interested in making himself available that way.

If you want him, come find him.]

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[perfectly_average]

Until Breach

[perfectly_average]

Jamil already makes enough coffee and tea to last at least a week at a time, so it's not that much of a change in routine for him to turn that into enough for at least one more person. He also tosses some fruit into a large bowl, with a mixture of water and lemon juice, to prevent it from turning brown.

Every day, he will place sealed containers of a little fruit, tea, and/or coffee next to Verso. There's a note on each, that says what they are and... that's all there is to it. He doesn't stick around, doesn't expect it to be consumed, but also doesn't break the routine.

And the containers are not meant to be washed, so they won't be counted as a loss if just tossed into the trash; with magic, even cardboard-like paper can become temporarily sturdy enough that it's great for preserving warmth, cold, liquid, etc.

Besides, he works as part of custodial; he'll be able to find anything that's left untouched, and just toss it before it starts to smell.

[palissant]

The containers are never acknowledged and never touched.

Verso himself will become more difficult to access as the persistence continues, spending most of his time shut in his cabin or in the Speakeasy and not showing up in the library or any other public spaces at all where something can just be set down at his elbow.

Anything left directly outside his cabin is going to get quite deliberately kicked down the hallway. Very hard. Yes, it's a childish reaction.

He feels very much like he's being stalked by someone he can't do anything to get rid of.

[perfectly_average]

Verso, please, he offered the "get out of knowing location" free card and everything!

But, hey... Goading him into kicking things down a hallway is helping him feel more than a dead-eyed "I don't care", maybe? Maybe it's the tiniest baby step towards progress, only time can tell. But Jamil does remember it getting horribly worse, multiple times, before it got better. Sinking into the hate, the self-destruction, the... external destruction, in this place.

He gets it.

Only Verso can truly motivate Verso, but remaining passive... isn't an option he sees, at all.

So, closer to the end of the time before Breach, he does leave a note on his cabin.

At least drink water and eat a full meal.
Please.

[palissant]

The request is ignored. Jamil will find the note scattered down the hallway in small pieces.

The message is fairly clear - go to hell, he doesn't need a babysitter.