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expiationnet2023-09-03 09:38 pm
beshackled) wrote in expiationnet2023-09-03 09:38 pm
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[It's that fellow with the glowing red eyes again. And this time, he looks... tentatively happy? Quite the reverse of some of the general sentiments being posted in the most recent of days.]
Greetings. Pray forgive my neglect of checking these devices as of late. I ought to have checked more frequently... but, I confess, I became so absorbed in assisting with the matter of housing that I did little else this past moon.
On that subject, I am pleased to say that a number of small houses have been completed. Those we brought back from the desert worked hard on them, so I am sure they shall be pleased to see them put to use.
Ah... on another subject, I have yet to check over much of what I have missed, but did anyone else have an unrelated transmission involving mysteriously-appearing tattoos come up when they activated their charm?
Greetings. Pray forgive my neglect of checking these devices as of late. I ought to have checked more frequently... but, I confess, I became so absorbed in assisting with the matter of housing that I did little else this past moon.
On that subject, I am pleased to say that a number of small houses have been completed. Those we brought back from the desert worked hard on them, so I am sure they shall be pleased to see them put to use.
Ah... on another subject, I have yet to check over much of what I have missed, but did anyone else have an unrelated transmission involving mysteriously-appearing tattoos come up when they activated their charm?
oh gosh it's okay, thank you for getting back to it! also cw: mentions of passive suicidal ideation
[ It might not be necessarily the best thing to say when someone tells you something like this, but.. Ange can't help it. The girl doesn't know how to deal with genuine care at all, leaving this answer as the only possible one to her, trying to suppress how flustered she feels. ]
You have nothing to worry about. I'll get done what I need to get done back home, and if it's all over for me after that, that's fine with me.
CW: Cultural depictions of suicide. Spoilers for Pandaemonium Asphodelos in FFXIV.
[That is what it sounds like... yet something about the way she describes it feels off to him. Most of those who return to the star where he is from do so because they feel they have fulfilled their life's work. The journey is one many even look forward to. Even socially isolated as he is, that fact has not escaped him.
Yet... Ange does not seem at all joyful. Erichthonios' brows draw close in worry. He does not understand. The closest comparison he can draw is that of Hesperos, who took his own life to evade capture and questioning over his transformation into a hemitheos.
...But even that held a twisted sense of fulfillment for the man.
Ange... almost seems uncaring for her life.]
cw: mentions of passive suicidal ideation
It's an odd sort of wording to Ange, considering she's never heard of it before.. And yet she has an idea about what he could mean here. Even if the choice of words is different, there's something about the implication in them that makes her feel like she gets what he's saying. ]
Yeah.
[ Which is why she answers.
.. Even if there is, perhaps, not a whole lot of emotion in it. There ought to be a little bit more than that, right?
But Ange just sounds.. hollow as she says it. ]
Not like there's anything else left for me.
no subject
[He can do nothing to stop her, if her mind is made up. She does not even live upon the same star...]
I shall think of you. May your soul... journey safely, and find new life with those you long to see.
no subject
[ She starts, then stops. Something about her emotions right now seems complicated, even if she isn't showing all of it. But it is noticable in the small ways that the complication is there, even if its nature is harder to spot. ]
Are you some sort of priest or something?
[ It's not exactly the sort of thing she expected anyone to say. (Honestly, she didn't even expect anyone to remotely care, let alone say something like I shall think of you, of all things.) ]
no subject
I will not force it on you though.
no subject
The word Ange is practically allergic to, for many reasons. But his words from a moment ago, from way before he even said friends, still hang in her mind.
She feels like she'll have a hard time fully getting them out of there for a while. ]
.. maybe.
[ That's already more than she'd usually say. Way more. ]
In time.
[ Even if it might not seem like much in the moment. ]
/wraps this up
[He is willing to leave it at that for now.]