[The scalpel's clean, but it hasn't seen a lot of use. It's next to first-aid supplies -- Atem's accepted that, in order for some wounds to be treated, incisions might have to be made, and they should be made with the right tool for the job.
The bone saw and the knives near it...on closer inspection, they look more culinary than medical, for efficient butchery of meat. The sins committed in this room are abduction, blood draws, murder, and postmortem preparation for consumption by meat-eaters, as well as construction of the dormant devices under the dust-covers, which Atem's referred to under the much broader category of games. No experimental surgeries. No trophy-taking, either, unless the newspaper records count.
Still...Giorno's right. Steve's not just gentler than the rest of them, he's also been through something too close to what's here. It had been good, to destroy Fabius Bile as completely as they had, ripping open his chest, exposing his heart like he'd done to Steve--
--but it's that precise fact that means Steve should never see the place where the thing that did it was made.]
Right.
I won't. You have my word.
[If Giorno's looking for it, there's a brief glow in Atem's red-on-black eyes, like they're embers someone's just blown on. For him as a demon, promises are contracts; he's bound to it now. Even without it, once the temporary change is over, Atem will never bring Steve here unless every other safe place in Bavan were compromised, and the physical danger somehow outweighed what would happen emotionally, if Steve were here.]
cw references to kidnapping, nonconsensual blood draws, murder, cannibalism, death traps, torture
The bone saw and the knives near it...on closer inspection, they look more culinary than medical, for efficient butchery of meat. The sins committed in this room are abduction, blood draws, murder, and postmortem preparation for consumption by meat-eaters, as well as construction of the dormant devices under the dust-covers, which Atem's referred to under the much broader category of games. No experimental surgeries. No trophy-taking, either, unless the newspaper records count.
Still...Giorno's right. Steve's not just gentler than the rest of them, he's also been through something too close to what's here. It had been good, to destroy Fabius Bile as completely as they had, ripping open his chest, exposing his heart like he'd done to Steve--
--but it's that precise fact that means Steve should never see the place where the thing that did it was made.]
Right.
I won't. You have my word.
[If Giorno's looking for it, there's a brief glow in Atem's red-on-black eyes, like they're embers someone's just blown on. For him as a demon, promises are contracts; he's bound to it now. Even without it, once the temporary change is over, Atem will never bring Steve here unless every other safe place in Bavan were compromised, and the physical danger somehow outweighed what would happen emotionally, if Steve were here.]