Voice-To Solve people

[saintedsinner]

It's about goddamn time the jungle left. The humidity was getting to me. I'm lucky I didn't start rusting, dammit.


.... Is Negi back, yet?

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[Text]

[exarmatio]

[It takes a while before he even responds to this. Like, a good hour or two. Because he doesn't know if he should.]

No.

[Text]

[saintedsinner]

-=He gives no indication whether Negi should be worried or not.=-

When will you be?

[Text]

[exarmatio]

I don't know.

[Negi's worried regardless. He's a natural born worrier.]

[Text]

[saintedsinner]

Did you tell Al?



-=There's this really deep frown on his end.=-

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

To my knowledge, he has not returned.

[It's quiet.]

[Text]

[exarmatio]

I sent him a message.

[Voice]

[saintedsinner]

... You okay?

-=Figures she's worried about him.=-

He can take care of herself, you know.

[Text]

[saintedsinner]

He's not worried?


-=He could just as easily ask Al himself, though.=-

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

[Not particularly. If anything, she's extraordinarily confused and immensely torn up, but like hell is Rachel Berry admitting any of that to anyone but herself and maybe Kurt.]

I know he can, but all the same.

[Voice] *HIMself

[saintedsinner]

.... So now you know.

...

-=Might as well get this over with.=-

[Text]

[exarmatio]

He knows I can take care of myself.

[But he needs to come back to the house and sort things out.]

[Text]

[saintedsinner]

Yes.

[Voice] <3333;

[somethingspecial]

Yes.

[She is silent after that. What should she do, what should she do, with Jesse and -- ]

[Voice] wah

[saintedsinner]

-=A small sigh.=-

I know things here, whatever does... it won't translate to whatever happens when you go home. It took me a long time to get used to that. Accept it.

Not everyone can accept that.

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

[It's... essentially the same with Jesse, depending on what transpires there, really.]

... it's a difficult thing to accept.

[Text]

[exarmatio]

[His reply doesn't come for a few minutes.]

I'll be home tonight. I promise.

[Voice]

[saintedsinner]

Yeah. So... It's not the same for everyone. And regardless of who matters to me...it should matter to you. And I know you have important people here.


-=Hear that? This is his knowledge that he really has no claim to lay.=-

[Text]

[saintedsinner]

Alright.

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

I do have important people here. You're one of them.

[Quietly.]

And I'm -- sorry, Edward, that I left, that I forgot. I'm trying, very hard, to remember everything, and I've remembered pieces of it --

[It's said almost desperately, because Rachel doesn't want this to feel like a dismissal, to sound like a rejection.]

[Voice]

[saintedsinner]

-=Yeah, his head's already there.=-

Yeah? I knew you would, eventually.

-=You may get a song out of Jesse, but like hell he's going to lower himself and grovel with a song.=-

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

Some of it, anyway. Writing everything down certainly helped.

[Voice]

[saintedsinner]

...Good.

I'm almost ready to lay down the stone and sand for that filter, now. I couldn't have gotten this far without you sorting out the stone.

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

Just because there is no stage here does not mean I cannot assist in another way.

[She still seems bothered, but the vote of confidence helps.]

[Voice]

[saintedsinner]

Yeah. You proved that.


-=He... doesn't have anything else to say.=-

[Voice]

[somethingspecial]

[Yeah, tough, she does.]

... you could have told me.