Deer Country IC Inbox

[eudaimonikos]

INBOX text / audio / video / action Hello, this is Michael. I can't pick up right now, please leave a message. code credit

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[siriusly]

[the pause carries over to Manabu's end, who needs as much time to process the awkward as he does forming words that won't trip up his tongue.]

I mean-- as far as...who is there ll, longest. I mean.

[beat.]

I also...didn't know it. It was here at first. You...kinda got dibs.

[eudaimonikos]

...right.

[Aaaa, he made it awkward. Let's regroup!]

Well! It's no big deal - I really don't need that much space just for me. Besides, according to our personal timelines, you left it much more recently than I did.

[siriusly]

Uh--I...I guess so.

[another pause - a longer one.]

You haven't...seen Amara lately, have you?

[eudaimonikos]

...no, I haven't. Pretty sure she's not around.

[Anyone else, he might buy that they could've arrived and been missed, but Amara tends to make her presence pretty well-known.]

[siriusly]

[he makes a faint, barely audible sound.

after a beat:] At least...I know I didn't...worry her, then.

[eudaimonikos]

.....yeah.

[god this is bombing]

Seems like it's better than a Deerington death, though?

[siriusly]

It, um. [welllll...] I...I don't know if I'd, uh. Pick one over the oth-other. They're...both bad in their own ways. So just be careful, okay?

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, of course. You too.

So, are you coming back home soon?

[siriusly]

I, I...I mean, unless it's too crowded there now...

[eudaimonikos]

No, of course not. I didn't give away your bedroom. I'll just make sure the door's open, grab some food.

[He's still not in the habit of eating alone, and Vyng and Tuck seem to have their own tent-kitchen, so maybe things are a little scare there right now. It's fine.]

[siriusly]

[he makes a faint sound of acknowledgement.]

Thanks, yeah, I...I don't know if...I mean, I still have to find some of my be-belongings. Keys are part of that, I guess.

[eudaimonikos]

Figured. Dying's weird.

[Just generally, but especially when your body and all your possessions don't just turn into smoke.]

No big deal, I can just get a copy made if you can't find them. Think I could make it myself, actually.

[siriusly]

Aa, yeah, that's right...that's not too bad. [one less thing to worry about. good.]

I'll be back before dark, then.

Thanks, Michael.

[eudaimonikos]

No problem. See you later.