belphe | [Video/Action for Cherrygrove]

[When the feed comes on, it's displaying this glorious beast.    Sho is tangled up in the inn room's sheets and blankets so badly that its hard to tell where they end and he begins. Feverish and puffy-eyed, his breathing is a ragged hunhgh noise at best, punctuated by coughs that sounded like someone's rattling marbles in a bucket of jelly.

On his butt sits a hat. At his back is the Purrloin who put that hat there, insistently pawing at him as if hoping that her benevolent gesture of returning it to her trainer might make all of this go away.    All in all, the whole scene looks like a hot mess.]

So... [says the alto female voice behind the camera, who sounds oddly unconcerned]   ...this has been going on since he fell into the water two nights ago while we were traveling here.   I don't think he's dying yet, though I wonder if anyone knows what it might be.

[A pause as she's interrupted by another explosion of coughing]   I'd have taken him to a doctor, but I don't think you appreciate how dedicated he is to that bed at the moment... [or how difficult it was dragging him in here in the first place, for that matter...

As the purrloin continues to nudge and poke him with her paw, a hand suddenly explodes out of the cocoon of blankets and seizes the feline by the scruff of her neck.   He sits up, looking blearily-disoriented but clearly thinking he's awake enough to growl into his pokemon's face:]

In arctic and tropical climes,
the integers, addition, and times,
taken (mod p) will yield
a full finite field,
as p ranges over the primes!

[She is not sure whether this was a reprimand or not, and so, responds by grabbing for his bandana.   There's a sigh that sounds slightly exasperated behind the camera as the video cuts out]

((OOC - this is a joint post. People can address either Belphegor, Sho, or both and they will answer accordingly!))

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HE'S JUST SICK.
PROBABLY CAUGHT A COLD AND HE'S JUST BEING A GIANT WIGGLER ABOUT IT.
IT'S NOT EVEN A BIG *DEAL* OR ANYTHING.
SURE, HE'LL BE MISERABLE FOR A LITTLE WHILE, BUT GODDAMN IT'S NOT LIFE THREATENING.

Sounds like you lost him already.

That sounds like a nasty cough. I hope it isn't pneumonia.

I'm fairly certain that anyone who has been sick before can appreciate the dedication one has to stay in bed. Unless you happen to be type who against all odds will just toss on a flu mask and go about your day as if nothing is wrong...

[Sho remains curled up in bed unless physically dragged out of it, so when she has to leave for a while he barely even notices. Purrloin remains seated next to him, watching her go with big eyes.]

...Does he normally compose verses of mathematical poetry as a form of threat?

Just wondering.

[There are plenty of other people here who can offer decent advice, but Sollux is not qualified for that, so he's just going to be a dick instead. Hey -- there might even be someone here who's crazier than him.]

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