Ouroboros Spine no one wakes up one day

'raako' watches her strip out it's innards and he copies her actions on his own catfish with only the briefest moment of hesitation. using his neck muscles ( which was unavoidable ) caused him pain but he pushes through it because he has to. the only alternative is death and though there'd been a point in which he'd accepted it as gracefully as one could before reiko'd found him ...the truth is he's rescinded that acceptance. he isn't ready to die. 'raako' eats, scrunching his face at the taste — he's not a real big fan, apparently — as she fills the silence with one-sided conversation and though he can't really participate beyond gestures, and a few vocalizations he gives her his rapt attention all the same.

he eats what he can — which isn't as much as he should be eating for his size — and noses the rest away from him, salmon pink tongue darting out to draw across his jowls in an attempt to clean them. he makes a small, morose and apologetic noise when she tells him that the woman she saw as her mother left after her father died. that probably had been a painful thing to come to terms with, he assumes, but one of the blissful things of not being able to remember anything was that he couldn't exactly sympathize ( though he could've very easily if he hadn't lost his memory ).

she apologizes for not being able to remember his name and he lets out a small churr that is meant to be a laugh — broken quickly by the radiation of pain it causes from his wounds that is followed by a visceral reaction that closely resembles a cringe mixed with a flash of pain. he settles for a small shake of his head and shrug. 'i can't remember it either so don't feel bad'. perhaps a form of repentance for the time he spent as a child pretending that he couldn't remember his family; forgetting those that he loved: relmyna, hydra, astara. his daughter, quellcrist.

blackbear. from her words, it's easy to tell that they knew each other but his memory is a void. try as he might to recall he comes up empty pawed all the same. he shakes his head 'no', wishing he could bring himself to form the words to assure her that it's not personal: he doesn't remember anything.