[The dragons are in their corners. Ain is moping on the floor. Honestly, he'll probably fall asleep for a few hours due to how late it is and how fatigued and stressed he is. His brain very quickly assesses that this is not some sort of traumatic stress-induced nightmare, and as he wakes up just before dawn breaks, he thinks to himself that he's probably wanted to be dead for a while now, actually, and this is just an excuse to not die miserably with some woman he doesn't want betrothed to him...
His panic brain goes no don't Ain and it's too late, because he's pushing himself up (trying not to sneeze again on the way, it's so cold here and he's barely wearing anything insulating because believe it or not silk is not actually that warm) and going to the weapon pile. He pulls out a particularly sharp and scary looking pike, loops at the tip, and gulps...
If the dragons are awake, they might watch Ain plunge the tip of it into the side of his stomach, completely missing any vital organs by some stupid miracle of God being like "no child stop child", and pulling it out a half-second later with a several-inches-deep wound and tears in his eyes. Nope nope nope suicide sucks actually he can't do this he wants to live so badly (he also wants to die so badly) and now he's bleeding and
he sneezes again and coughs and that, of course, makes the wound gush blood faster.
So he hits the floor and passes the fuck out.
The dragons might want to eat him now before their breakfast gets cold.]
written comically, but also. suicide-
His panic brain goes no don't Ain and it's too late, because he's pushing himself up (trying not to sneeze again on the way, it's so cold here and he's barely wearing anything insulating because believe it or not silk is not actually that warm) and going to the weapon pile. He pulls out a particularly sharp and scary looking pike, loops at the tip, and gulps...
If the dragons are awake, they might watch Ain plunge the tip of it into the side of his stomach, completely missing any vital organs by some stupid miracle of God being like "no child stop child", and pulling it out a half-second later with a several-inches-deep wound and tears in his eyes. Nope nope nope suicide sucks actually he can't do this he wants to live so badly (he also wants to die so badly) and now he's bleeding and
he sneezes again and coughs and that, of course, makes the wound gush blood faster.
So he hits the floor and passes the fuck out.
The dragons might want to eat him now before their breakfast gets cold.]