[It's like he's a starving man who's just been granted a full, five-course meal. The Archivist closes his eyes and breathes out a heavy, pleasured breath. This is, of course, horrifying. That poor little girl. But... fascinating at the same time. The Eye is rarely so direct with its victims (maybe outside of the Archivist, itself, mentally assaulting people). Or at least, he rarely gets Statements about its victims, likely due to them instinctively avoiding a place like the Institute.
The yawning pit in his stomach is filled for the moment, though, and that's good. It's bad he'd got that from feeding on one of Elias' multitudes of horrors. But... Christ, he needed that. After taking a moment to just relish the meal like a bloody addict taking a hit, he opens his eyes and focuses on the elder avatar.]
Madeline Hayes. [The name comes to him just as easily as her face, whether he's extracting it from Elias' memories or the other man is helping him along by pushing it out.] Why were you called in? Was your doctor 'friend' superstitious or did you insinuate yourself?
[Presumably, most doctors wouldn't have believed in the eye business.]
cw: continue from above + reference to addiction and drug use
[It's like he's a starving man who's just been granted a full, five-course meal. The Archivist closes his eyes and breathes out a heavy, pleasured breath. This is, of course, horrifying. That poor little girl. But... fascinating at the same time. The Eye is rarely so direct with its victims (maybe outside of the Archivist, itself, mentally assaulting people). Or at least, he rarely gets Statements about its victims, likely due to them instinctively avoiding a place like the Institute.
The yawning pit in his stomach is filled for the moment, though, and that's good. It's bad he'd got that from feeding on one of Elias' multitudes of horrors. But... Christ, he needed that. After taking a moment to just relish the meal like a bloody addict taking a hit, he opens his eyes and focuses on the elder avatar.]
Madeline Hayes. [The name comes to him just as easily as her face, whether he's extracting it from Elias' memories or the other man is helping him along by pushing it out.] Why were you called in? Was your doctor 'friend' superstitious or did you insinuate yourself?
[Presumably, most doctors wouldn't have believed in the eye business.]