IC Contact - Snowblind

[phaseshifter]

This is Angel. Leave a message.

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[bookofnope]

I think we've rather established that "just fine" is a lost cause.

[Wait, not helping again.]

No. That came out wrong. What I mean is that I would still rather that you were there. In the general sense. If your presence carries risk I still welcome it. After all you have done much more for me along the same lines. It's a fair price. I mean

I'm sorry, my usual stunning eloquence seems to be letting me down just now.

[He's trying to say that he'd rather have them than the book. For some reason this is harder coming out with conviction than it ought to be.]

[phaseshifter]

Well. Perhaps your eloquence will come back after you've had your space. Which is a thing that... I'm probably depriving you of right now, aren't I.

[ She's not going to ask whether he would rather have them than the book. That isn't fair, and she's kind of afraid that she wouldn't believe him if he said yes.

Besides. This already feels too familiar to the time she betrayed the vault hunters to Jack. Saying we aren't friends any more, are we hadn't exactly worked out well for her then, so... ]

Is this my cue to buzz off and leave you to your solitary adventures??

[bookofnope]

[It should be, shouldn't it? She's offering exactly what he's asked for - Angels gonna Angel, clever girl - and he does want to accept. He's chasing solitude because it is the most familiar thing, and because the loss he grapples with is his, his alone, nothing anyone can sympathise with, because they are not, in the end, his Kindred.

But they are all he has and all he will ever have. That he cannot imagine how to make them understand suddenly frustrates him beyond words. Every time he thinks he's found some sense to his continued existence...]

I will see you again soon. And I'll be less of a bundle of idiot depression when I do, which I'm sure would be no small relief.