[Week 1, Friday: Ann]

[doublecrows]

[Ann will find Akechi leaning heavily against the door frame of the kitchen, features pale, fingers curled into the front of his shirt. when he notices her, he looks up, and tries his best to speak between gasps of air]

T. . . Takamaki.

[it's hard to stay pleasant when you're having issues breathing thanks to physical exertion making digitalis poisoning symptoms worse!!]

H-- how are you? Are you all right?

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[doublecrows]

[it's hard to care about niceties and awkwardness when they're both, you know, dying. that's hyperbole but the point is there]

So long as our symptoms d-don't progress, no.

[he answers, before taking a careful sip of his water. it helps. not much, but it helps]

It's possible to suffer n-non-lethal digitalis poisoning. . . it isn't pleasant, but riding out the discomfort is better than the alternative.