#Orym needs a lot of hugs rn

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Ok. Idk who else thought about this but in all the times of thinking about Team ??? but I was just having a chat with @4persephone and it just hit both of us...

Out of the 3 of them... Orym was the only one who actually saw what went down with Ludinus. Orym was the only one who saw Ira being Banished without effort. He was the only one who saw Keyleth come down and be taken off game immediately. He was the only one who witnessed Vax protecting her as he stood aside helplessly. He was the one who knew what attempts were made to specifically stop Ludinus. He was the one who saw Imogen trying to make a deal with her mother. He was the one who saw Chetney being spiked as he tried to grapple Ludinus. He saw his near success in destroying the pack, attacking the one who had killed him and his friends and Fearne's failure. He saw Vax being converted into a Lens. He saw it power the tower and he fucking heard the whole of Ludinus' speech, had massive realisation and all that shit.

And all this while the other two were trying to take down energy sources. Ashton and Laudna know NONE of what happened up there. All they knew was Ira was going to destroy the core, probably heard that explosion, probably heard some of the fighting and... that's it. They know none of the details.

And now Orym has to recount all of this to the two of them first because they are doubly clueless on what happened when they were taking the cores out. They don't know the gravity of the situation. They don't know what Orym experienced. They are completely, utterly CLUELESS! At least team Uthodurn, everyone is on the same page of stuff. They all were seeing the same shit. Ash and Laudna don't know shit

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT?

And gods forbid they run into any of the Ashari or people who know Keyleth and has to report all of it. Alone. While also processing his own trauma and the fact that the first attack was just a test run and they were just... pawns.

Now I am seriously worried for Orym... man. I won't be surprised if he dissociates or is in shock and barely able to tell the other two what happened. But the man is going to crash so hard when the adrenaline drops and I really don't know what the fuck is going to happen.

I still don't know in all these weeks of talking to what will happen to Xandis and Keyleth and Beau and Caleb and the trio in general and who they will meet and who will blow up first and what will happen and where they are... how the FUCK DID I MISS THIS DETAIL!

How are Ashton and Laudna going to fucking react to this? How is Orym going to explain it to them? Will he be able to recount coherently in the first place? Will they even believe Orym or will they still be in denial?