week 9 Wednesday

[mnasthai]

[ Boop!

Hopefully Grell is awake at this hour to hear the notification from Furry Passing, as she has a visitor. At least there's no mutilated avatars this time either.]

Miss Grell?

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[erythristic]

[she is, actually. her odd sleep schedule has been working to her benefit for a while, so why change it? though the sound from her datapad is curious - she doesn't touch the app as much as others do, but she'll open it up to see her visitor.

who she sees makes her nearly drop the thing in surprise before she remembers that you need to type the speech.]

Kazuma?

[who else would have that hair? but she needs to be certain. first letters, now a presence...]

[mnasthai]

[ Even in Furry Passing he must have this ridiculously messy hair.]

Yup it's me~. It's been a long time, I'm glad I can talk to you again.

...even if it's probably only for a little while. [ His avatar will make a little smilie expression too!]

[erythristic]

A little time is infinitely preferable to none. I've missed you.

[that much is true, even if he can't hear her tone audibly for how sincere it it.]

How did you get here? The same way the letter did? Is that a secret?

[mnasthai]

[ ...he hadn't really expected that, and it's honestly the nicest thing he's heard in a long time. He probably shouldn't care about things like that anymore, but it really does make him happy.]

...I've missed you too.

It's not a secret, but it's hard to explain. We synced the servers, but I don't think Alice will like that. She's broken and not behaving right: what she's doing isn't the real Cradle Project.

[erythristic]

She's broken? That explains far more than I like. But...I have to wonder what the real project was supposed to be, rather than all of this.

[if she could make her avatar have a frowning face at this moment, she would.]

If she won't like it, then you know I have to tell you to be careful. You and whoever else.

[they didn't need something beyond death to come to them and make it so that even this small contact couldn't be found.]

[mnasthai]

It was supposed to be a good thing, but something horrible happened.

[ He's been playing Furry Passing a lot, so he makes his avatar shake it's head.]

You need to be careful, but not of her. The aliens are really dangerous, the Souvlaki, they're called. Don't let them find out about this no matter what.

[erythristic]

I won't. Not even if they come after me to sate their bloodlust. They'll never hear a word.

[Souvlaki. she takes the name and tucks it away in memory - she won't even write any of this down.]

I don't know what they want with us or Lady Alice, but if they won't leave, I'll kill them if they show their face.

Did you come here to warn me?

[mnasthai]

To kill everyone like they did before.

[ Expressing emotions in Furry Passing is hard, especially when it's not a normal one. But Kazuma has to try to show that he approves, too bad there's not a gleeful murderous expression, so he sends this emote instead:

]

Yeah and...I wanted to talk again.

[erythristic]

[see, now Grell thinks that's cute, instead of something out of the ordinary. it's even got flowers! if you can't express murder in facial expressions, emotes will do.

in response to his words, she looks for a cat that seems similar enough to how she feels.]



[that one seemed good enough. because she's sincerely happy they get to talk again.]

It's a shame you can't be here and take part when it gets fun. Everyone gets so beautifully passionate, and it's always a good, tragic show.

[but. before?]

[mnasthai]

I can see most of it, but it's still not the same. [ He wishes he could explain more, he wishes he could talk more, but he can already tell the connection is tenuous as it starts to glitch on his end.]

The game is--▀

Can you look into the name of the ship? It's important-- what it was supposed to be.

[erythristic]

The ship's name. I won't forget.

[no. no, it's not enough time. it's not long enough, she rejects this, and if she could will it to stay more stable, she would. don't go yet.]

There has to be something on this side about it.

[mnasthai]

Thank you.

[ This is harder than he thought it would be, and it certainly doesn't help that he still doesn't really understand his own emotions too well.]

I'll be back when I can, if that's okay. [ ... ] Stay safe, you're better than all of them.

[erythristic]

[you're better than all of them. she stares at the words for a minute before slowly exhaling. that amount of faith....it's up to her to make sure it's not entirely misplaced.]

Of course. Come back whenever you want.

And you stay safe too, Kazuma. Until we meet again.

[mnasthai]

[ There's a funny feeling in his heart at his presence being welcome. He doesn't have time to respond properly, or even in words, but he does manage one final thing before his avatar fades from existence.]