zerotohiro | Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

[It takes time for him to respond due to the combination of sleeping for a long period of time and visits with people, but when he does respond he's focusing all of his attention on this conversation.]

Hi. Sorry, it's been...kind of a long morning. Are you okay? How are you? I'm glad you made it back.

[Slow down, kid.]

It's fine. I haven't left bed yet.

[And it's...probably mid afternoon.]

I've been better. Ami's gone. Kael'thas is gone.

...wait what? [Shit.] When did you find out, as soon as we got back? I...don't know who Kael'thas is. Sorry.

She vanished last night I guess. Just...gone. I woke up, and her presence was gone.

I didn't think you knew him. He was the elf I mentioned. He made my bracelet.

I had no idea. I hadn't checked Tadashi's app. I'm sorry. Two of them gone just like that. Were they in that place with us too?

It's fine.

They were, though I lost track of Kael after the first day.

Did everyone on your end make it back alright?

Fine isn't really what I'd consider that, but if you say so. We got back alive if that's what you mean. [Well. Almost all of them. But he's just not going to mention that. It's not his place to say.] We're all sort of in a state of recovery right now.

There's nothing I can do to change it. I have to be fine, and there's no other way this can be.

[For Minako and Usagi, if nothing else.]

That is good to know. No major injury?

Let me know what I can do for you guys. If anything. I know things were sort of...you know. Because of Ami. But just saying. What would you count as major?

Some things are bigger than that. As cold as Ami can be, she'd be the first one to admit that you can be helpful. I can't think of anything that I need, truly. If I do, you'll be the first person I call. As it stands, the only thing I need is a cure for migraines.

Major injury being death, dismemberment, physiological trauma, or anything that you think you'd want to hide and know you shouldn't.

If something happened, you know you can talk to me. I'm not so upset that I can't listen.

That, unfortunately, I can't really give you but I'll do some research. Maybe I can find something we haven't tried yet.

[He doesn't respond for a bit after that. Yeah, he should have known Rei would call him on that.]

Um. I'm currently at home recovering from a pretty significant puncture wound? I think that probably counts as some form of physiological BUT I didn't die so that's a plus.

A fair answer. I don't expect results, but it'd be nice.

[Her next reply is much quicker.]

Puncture from a stab wound, a fall, or something else? What happened.

Stab wound. I'm fine, I got in a fight with somebody and kinda lost? I think it was more of a draw than anything. It's just not something I wanted to really deal with out there but we can't really choose what happens can we?

[The feed changes to voice. Almost immediately, and Rei's voice isn't exactly panicked, but more...restrained anger.]

What the hell? You were stabbed? Why?!

Whoa whoa whoa, it's fine! [Please don't be mad Rei everything is fine!!! Sort of.] Like I said, got in a fight with somebody. [A beat.] The masks were making people act really crazy out there. I don't know why, but this isn't the first time I've heard of it now.

Fine? Hiro, someone stabbed you. What were you fighting over?

It was just...they thought I was taking their place in somebody else's life, the mask was getting to their head or something. I haven't really figured out the whole thing yet. But we've already talked, things are mostly back to normal now.

One of Ruby-chan's friends?

[As good a guess as any.]

...yeah. [A pause.] Ruby already knows. We both talked to her about it.

Good. Not Yang-san, I hope.

No way! If it was Yang--I mean if it was Yang I definitely wouldn't be here...but Yang and Naoki already had their talk about dating Ruby. It was something else.

I hope she's not that violent anyway. I don't know her well, but she seems nice. Competent, too. She...ah...knows about me.

Because of the elephants. They got loose again on another day.

Trust me, she's not. She wouldn't be teaching me if she was. [Sigh.] If I never see those things again it'll be too soon. It's getting harder to really keep it a secret, isn't it?

[Yes let's talk about Mars and not about Weiss trying to disembowel him.]

[A long, weary sigh. You're dodging, but she can admit...]

I can't not help someone just to preserve a secret. That goes against everything I believe in, unless you know who is directly at risk.

I think what's more alarming is the increase in violent incidents.

...Yu was talking about how CERES wants us to feel really intense emotions so they can leech them from us. Think it's all tied directly into that?

Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

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