He replaces the corner of sheet she's definitely not wiping her tears on with his thumb, carefully wiping at her face in an attempt to dry it. His own face may or may not be streaked with tears as well.
"Of course. So, I suppose first I should tell you about dear Étienne -- oh, love, I'm sure if you could stay here you'd love him as much as I do -- he's so smart, and talented -- he's so good at painting! And he can be so funny, he loves wine, he's, my goodness, Ariadne, you should see him when he's practicing his kickboxing, it's so hot -- ...He's sad, a lot of the time. He came here immediately after dying, he didn't even make it to the River Styx before he woke up here apparently, and his life wasn't exactly the happiest before that either, so you can imagine -- but, I think he's getting better. Adjusting. It's just going to take a while. Ah -- oh, he loves playing games, we have a game room here and -- Ariadne, do you know what pinball is? I imagine there's probably pinball in Hades, right? Game where the little balls go bounce around inside a box thing and rack up points? Anyway, I'm pretty sure Étienne has the high score on the one we have here."
This last bit is decidedly untrue, but Dionysus doesn't really pay much attention to the pinball machine, and is honestly just making an assumption here based on his own incredibly biased opinions, but he seems fairly convinced of it.
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"Of course. So, I suppose first I should tell you about dear Étienne -- oh, love, I'm sure if you could stay here you'd love him as much as I do -- he's so smart, and talented -- he's so good at painting! And he can be so funny, he loves wine, he's, my goodness, Ariadne, you should see him when he's practicing his kickboxing, it's so hot -- ...He's sad, a lot of the time. He came here immediately after dying, he didn't even make it to the River Styx before he woke up here apparently, and his life wasn't exactly the happiest before that either, so you can imagine -- but, I think he's getting better. Adjusting. It's just going to take a while. Ah -- oh, he loves playing games, we have a game room here and -- Ariadne, do you know what pinball is? I imagine there's probably pinball in Hades, right? Game where the little balls go bounce around inside a box thing and rack up points? Anyway, I'm pretty sure Étienne has the high score on the one we have here."
This last bit is decidedly untrue, but Dionysus doesn't really pay much attention to the pinball machine, and is honestly just making an assumption here based on his own incredibly biased opinions, but he seems fairly convinced of it.