[ nothing happens, because he is a ghostly form. anyway maybe she can see like a general outline now? no details, but enough to tell he is not wearing a maid outfit. ]
[ well listen they came back and immediately started yelling and arguing and just earlier today he'd sent like some REALLY emotional letters and now all of that is coming crashing back down and he is very happy to see her? so he will say the dumb thing out loud if it makes her feel better. ]
[scrubbing her stupid face! this sucks, she doesn't want to say hugs you she wants to hug him. but it's also just nice to see him and hear his voice when he speaks, so it's a weird, mixed, bittersweet feeling.]
[ yeah it feels Sorta Bad to not be actually able to hug, especially considering the last time they even saw each other in person was dying horribly in execution, but it will have to do for now. he does his best to squat down so he's more her height, even if its all a bit indistinct. ]
I got your message. And even if you're not concentrating, you can send me texts, and I'll get them and I can respond back.
That makes it sound like it's going to be a while.
[which. it's stupid. ruby basically as much as said it wouldn't all be over on monday. but it's a horrible feeling. it was a horrible weekend. now everyone is here and smiling and acting happy but she doesn't even know if it's going to work, if she did enough. if she was enough. it's unbearable to wait like this and know if she didn't, it's much too late.]
...I hate the idea that it could be too late and I don't even know. And I didn't, I kept messing up! First I didn't even wake up, and then last week all of that stupid - Haru had to do it, and I - I just can't do anything right.
[she really doesn't mean to be doing this, she didn't want to instantly melt down and worry him, but it's so hard when he's here not to just feel it all hit her.]
You were right that people wouldn't want to kill me but that's the only thing I was good for. I couldn't protect Rin, or you, or Haru. And I made Simon hate us and put us all in danger and I - the ice cream plan was stupid - and honestly even then, you guys just told everybody not to hurt our team, so it probably - I should have died, and you should have stayed here and helped Haru.
[ he listens to all of this, but he isn't exactly hearing it beyond where she thinks she kept messing up, that she didn't do anything right, because that's such an impossibility to him. ]
Hey, hey-- Ylfa. [ maybe trying to argue out the logic of it isn't going to be helpful. it's all just anxiety talking. ]
Hugging you, alright?
[ it sounds so stupid, but it's really the best he can do right now. ]
[ he will just rub at his own face for a second. ]
You didn't mess anything up. I'm glad you got to rest last week. You spent all of this time talking to people, making sure they knew what was going on, reading our letters and helping us. That's more important than anything else. We wouldn't have made it without you keeping us together.
... And Simon is a lunatic who keeps spitting on me, don't give his opinions any weight in this.
...Well, I do think he deserves to be mad. But it isn't your fault.
[don't spit on him! though that's also not actually that bad.]
I wouldn't have made it without you, you know. Or - [she has to reconsider that for a second.] - I would have, but in a different way, and I think I like this one better. [in some way she'll find a way to survive any situation if she needs to, but many of those paths are quite dark indeed, and the girl who travels down them isn't the same girl here today.]
He can be mad without killing a bunch of people about it and then trying to blame us entirely instead of owning up to doing it because he wanted to.
[ but he's mostly just grumbling. ]
I know. Me too. [ it isn't that he necessarily thinks his path would be dark, but it would probably be more ... useless. cowardly. more of hiding in the same shadows he always had. ] But I like this one better too.
[ oh boy. well. he isn't sure it's the best idea to talk about all that when it's still like this, even though it's a little better than the texts, but if she's asking he can't really say no. ]
I don't know that it's important, really, but- [ ... a long pause. ] I went on another one of those missions. With Buzen, and Nahida. It didn't go well. But it's alright now.
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Hello ... ?
1/2
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GERARD! Sorry! Oh no! Did I murder you again? I got nervous actually that Aika was going to show up, and -
[so she was going to stab aika...?]
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You were going to stab Aika ... ?
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[touching him touching him touching him touching him.]
You're still a ghost, I can't even see your face. I'll concentrate harder, okay?
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Don't give yourself a headache, I would like to talk.
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[a little disappointed she can’t concentrate him to corporeality but she will instead content herself muttering under her breath.]
Pets you pets you pets you.
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[ he will give into the meme, just a little bit to indulge her. ]
Hugs you, I suppose.
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[thank you for doing the stupid meme. scrubbing her face with a paw.]
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I really missed you.
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I missed you, too.
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I got your message. And even if you're not concentrating, you can send me texts, and I'll get them and I can respond back.
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[which. it's stupid. ruby basically as much as said it wouldn't all be over on monday. but it's a horrible feeling. it was a horrible weekend. now everyone is here and smiling and acting happy but she doesn't even know if it's going to work, if she did enough. if she was enough. it's unbearable to wait like this and know if she didn't, it's much too late.]
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[ he has no control over the live. but yeah it's a pretty fucking horrible weekend! ]
We'll go home soon.
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You did more than enough, I promise, okay? You already did. I think we just have to wait for a bit.
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[she really doesn't mean to be doing this, she didn't want to instantly melt down and worry him, but it's so hard when he's here not to just feel it all hit her.]
You were right that people wouldn't want to kill me but that's the only thing I was good for. I couldn't protect Rin, or you, or Haru. And I made Simon hate us and put us all in danger and I - the ice cream plan was stupid - and honestly even then, you guys just told everybody not to hurt our team, so it probably - I should have died, and you should have stayed here and helped Haru.
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Hey, hey-- Ylfa. [ maybe trying to argue out the logic of it isn't going to be helpful. it's all just anxiety talking. ]
Hugging you, alright?
[ it sounds so stupid, but it's really the best he can do right now. ]
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[that really is the best they can do. she wipes at her face again, frustrated.]
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You didn't mess anything up. I'm glad you got to rest last week. You spent all of this time talking to people, making sure they knew what was going on, reading our letters and helping us. That's more important than anything else. We wouldn't have made it without you keeping us together.
... And Simon is a lunatic who keeps spitting on me, don't give his opinions any weight in this.
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[don't spit on him! though that's also not actually that bad.]
I wouldn't have made it without you, you know. Or - [she has to reconsider that for a second.] - I would have, but in a different way, and I think I like this one better. [in some way she'll find a way to survive any situation if she needs to, but many of those paths are quite dark indeed, and the girl who travels down them isn't the same girl here today.]
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[ but he's mostly just grumbling. ]
I know. Me too. [ it isn't that he necessarily thinks his path would be dark, but it would probably be more ... useless. cowardly. more of hiding in the same shadows he always had. ] But I like this one better too.
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Will you tell me what happened? The stuff you didn't want to talk about in a letter?
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I don't know that it's important, really, but- [ ... a long pause. ] I went on another one of those missions. With Buzen, and Nahida. It didn't go well. But it's alright now.
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