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[Voice]

[lightthedarkness]

Hey, Chloe-chan, I'm sorry about being so rude to you a few weeks back, you didn't deserve any of that.

[Voice]

[tagartist]

Huh? [ It's not that she forgot so much as she forgot it was something that Usagi would think to apologize for. ]

Oh - dude, no. I... totally had that coming. I've been a real asshole. It was probably about time someone called me out on it.

[Voice]

[lightthedarkness]

I don't know about having it coming... but even if you did I don't think I was the one who should have given it.

[Voice]

[tagartist]

I dunno. I mean, I don't like that you seemed like you weren't feeling like yourself, but I, uh...

I don't think I would've have really listened to someone who didn't get it first hand.

[Voice]

[lightthedarkness]

I wasn't myself, it was that fog, but that doesn't really excuse me for what I said...

About... that. My history is... complicated, but it doesn't lessen what you went through.

[Voice]

[tagartist]

Yeah. A few of my friends said the same thing. Don't worry. We're cool. Really.

I know. I didn't feel like you were trying to one up me or anything. I just guess I never stopped to think other people might understand what it was like to have to keep... dying. Back home, I'm the only one. But this place is different and I was stupid to not think that if it was possible for me, it might be possible for other people.

[Voice]

[lightthedarkness]

You're not stupid. Far from it, trust me. I don't exactly go around telling that little fact to everyone. And I imagine not a lot of people wanna talk about dying and being reborn. But I think, outside of my loved ones from home, only like, four people including you know what I told you. So you not knowing, I mean, it's not something everyone is singing from rooftops, so you thinking you were the only one, even here, it's not out of nowhere.

Hell, some of them don't even know half the stuff I told you. Though they know some more info than you.

[Voice]

[tagartist]

Thanks, Usagi. I... guess you're probably right.

I uh - I haven't really told... anyone about the dying more than once thing.

Voice;

[innermonologues]

[ Right away, Chloe gets smacked in the emotional face by a feeling of nervousness. ]

Chloe...? Do you have a minute?

Voice;

[tagartist]

[ What a thing to swallow when she's probably Not Quite Sober and definitely running on maybe an hour of sleep. ]

Yeah. Nothin' but minutes. What's up?

Voice;

[innermonologues]

[ Whoops... Badtiming fun times?? ]

Did... you ever find a place to stay?

Voice;

[tagartist]

[ A standard time with Chloe Price. Her brain's still moving a little slowly though so it takes her a second to remember that she's not sleeping in a tent. ]

Oh. Yeah - I uh. Swallowed my pride and asked Lance for some help when the storms started.

Voice;

[innermonologues]

Would... this place of yours happen to have room for two... maybe?

Voice;

[tagartist]

If you don't mind sleeping on the floor.

Hiding?

Voice;

[innermonologues]

I don't mind floors. I'll even take the roof if I have to.

[ Because he's a cat and likes high places apparently. ]

That obvious...?

[voice] | 1/?

[lanceylance]

[ What was it Arden had told him forever ago? Concentrate on the person you want to talk to and it'll work? Something like that.

He's never actually done this before, being the one to reach out first. He's always been the one to respond. But here goes... ]

Chlo-

2/?

[lanceylance]

[ Wait! What if he's doing this wrong? What if he ends up sending this to everyone when he just wants to talk to one person? Oh my god, this is so nerve-wracking!

Okay, try again. Just... focus. ]

Hey, um... fuck-

3/5

[lanceylance]

[ He'd completely forgotten what he wanted to say. Alright, Lance, think. ]

4/5

[lanceylance]

[ Keep thinking... Man, this is hard! ]

5/5

[lanceylance]

[ A-ha! Got it. Now he just has to hold his focus long enough to get the words out. Maybe if he says them faster, then it'll go through? ]

Areyoubusyrightnow?

[ That worked, didn't it? ]

[tagartist]

[ She’s never going to get over just randomly having voices in her head - especially given that she knows they’re real and not just her having a mental breakdown this time.

But the cutting in and out as he’s trying to figure it out is downright amusing and she can’t hide the humor that’s coming through when she actually focuses in to respond. ]

Not particularly. Sup, Lancelot?

[lanceylance]

[ Ah! Responding! This he can do easily. But the getting used to contacting people... that is definitely gonna take some work. ]

...I, um... kinda broke something. And I don't know how to fix it.

[tagartist]

[ Practice makes perfect, buddy. ]

As long as it’s not a bone, I can probably give it a shot. What’d you smash?

[lanceylance]

[ There's definitely a slight pout in his tone, because this thing is important to him. ]

I kinda dropped my headphones and they broke. Like, it's not bad, but now there's one side that's not attached by anything other than cord.

[tagartist]

Oh, shit, dude. I thought it was gonna be something way harder.

[ She sounds relieved because at least she knows she can actually do this. ]

I’ve fixed many a fucked up headphone. I’ve got the tools here in my room, just bring ‘em in whenever.