V. IC CONTACT (RETIRED)

[firstroar]

• Text [ENABLED]
• Voice [ENABLED; automated voice message]
• Video [DISABLED]
• Telepathy [TWO-MILE RANGE REQUIRED]

Comments

[heartsink]

[ sometimes parents have a dumb argument and get everyone snowed into a hotel for a few days until the roof collapses
sometimes the spirit of human evil holds a battle royal
sometimes there are zombies
it's hard to weight
the silence stretches a little. ]

... Blue?

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I'm here. [softer.] I'm sorry, Haruka. I wish I remembered it all. I want to. And more...I want this place to be safer for you. [but it's gotten worse.]

[heartsink]

... Do you?

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It may be what I'm here to do. If there's reason for me to be here at all.

[heartsink]

No, not that.

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What, then?

[heartsink]

You said you wish you remembered it all.

Do you?

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[


oh.

WITH CARE:] Yes.

[heartsink]

[ in a way, even though there could be no other answer, she was afraid of that. ]

When you know yourself ready, then.

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[more silence.]

Why are you offering this to me now?

[heartsink]

...

[ there's a silence, there, stretching long seconds. she doesn't have an easy answer to give, and words don't present themselves to her. ]

After all this time... it is a little sudden, isn't it?

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Losing one thing...offered another. It's not strange.

[heartsink]

I suppose not... Though, that's not why, either. At least, I don't think it is.

It's hard to put into words.

[firstroar]

[a smaller pause.]

It's alright.

[heartsink]

It doesn't change this. Whenever you wish it, then...

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It's a generous offer, Haruka. More than generous.

[heartsink]

It's not.

You deserved it from the start.

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[has he? he has no idea how to determine what he deserves right now.]

At the cost of treading on a recoiling heart? No.

But that you would openly offer those things to me matters...a great deal.