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TAAKO

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Pâtissier

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"You've got Taako. I'm too busy to take your call right now, leave a message."

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[franciscoramon]

[ Cisco gives a little nod, eyes dropping to stare at the floor somewhere between their feet. Through the fog, a little bit of embarrassment comes through, making his cheeks prickle with heat. He hadn't meant to accuse Taako of malice, or even negligence, in any kind of roundabout way. ]

I didn't mean it like that.

[ It's hard, finding the right words to explain, but Cisco tries. The last thing he wants right now is to be a dick to Taako. ]

I can tell that my head's not working right, right now. I just know that I can't... be careful, the way I normally would.

[ There are so many factors that Cisco usually juggles, when considering various decisions - down to what he will say and what he won't. He tries to weigh the variables, to consider all the possible outcomes, to think things through carefully before he does them. But the shock has left him numb, and the panic has left him fearful, and the uncertainty has left him exhausted. He can't do all the usual everyday calculus, and that's scary. Cisco lifts his gaze once more, hoping Taako understands - or if he doesn't, that he just accepts it. ]

I trust you. Can we go? I really want to see him.

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Hey, it's cool, I get it.

[Paranoia is understandable in situations like this, when tensions are high, and he wasn't trying to get defensive, just hoping to reassure Cisco in a way they'd both understand. Cisco knows the sort of person Taako is, and while that means he shouldn't be trusted with certain things, he can be trusted to not hurt Cisco.

So Taako just reaches out to take Cisco's hand.]

There might be like.... beings in there, but they'll leave us alone.

[With that warning, he pulls them into the ethereal plane, where everything is grey and soft. He was right about things being here, a few shapes move through the halls of the hospital, but Taako isn't worried about them.]

Just think about where you wanna be, don't worry about walls.

[They don't quite exist here.]

[franciscoramon]

[ In a normal situation, Cisco would absolutely pause and either make jokes or demand to know just what Taako means by 'beings'. That's a pretty damn cryptic warning to drop and then not explain. But considering the day he's been having, Cisco just gives a nod of understanding, puts his hand in Taako's, and waits.

The ethereal plane doesn't look like he'd anticipated. Cisco's not sure what he expected - something a little more technicolor and obviously magical. But he quickly adjusts to how muted and grey and unreal the whole thing is. He hears Taako's instructions, doesn't pause for skepticism or questions. He just thinks I want to see Eddie and adds a please in case that matters.

Sure enough, their surroundings shift, leaving the waiting room behind, moving back into the maze of little rooms beyond the nurse's station. It takes a moment for Cisco to find Eddie, against the weirdly contrast-less surroundings. He doesn't really look like himself, in a bed with so many tubes around him, so many machines monitoring him. Cisco thinks I want to move closer and is closer. It's probably a good thing, that he can't see how pale Eddie might be, at the moment. He sees his face, sees his chest gently moving up and down, and that's enough.

Cisco turns to where Taako is, gives him a little nod of gratitude, and to signal he's seen enough. But that look of vagueness and horror is a little less, on his face. ]