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post-space event

[scarecrowed]

[ It's his turn to check in on her. ]

dorothy
are you back in the city
answer me
please

[tornadoed]

[ she's been staring at this message for entirely too long, turning everything that's happened over in her mind.

in the end, she types ] yeah
i am [ and presses send before she can think about it even longer ]

[scarecrowed]

i don't trust this way of speaking
can we talk
face to face

[ He's old-fashioned, he likes looking into the eyes of the person he's talking to. And texting ended badly last time. ]

[tornadoed]

[ she doesn't want to see him. she doesn't.

and yet - ]

yeah, all right

[scarecrowed]

you choose where

[ He's giving her the option of meeting in public if she doesn't feel safe being alone with him. ]

text | un: alucard

[dhampyrrhic]

Dorothy.

Do you require assistance in meeting your quota?

[tornadoed]

alucard, hi

how are you? did you get back from space okay?

[ "okay". like everyone didn't die at the end there... anyway. ]

what's the quota again
i mean

[ this is not awkward at all ]

how much to meet it? [ she definitely read that somewhere or heard about it, but it hadn't seemed like the most important thing at the time ]

[dhampyrrhic]

I am well. I would prefer not to speak on the matter of space.

( at least his shutdowns are... polite. )

I believe it is three or more times a month.

[tornadoed]

yeah, that's fair

[ not all of it had been bad, but the end had —been pretty bad. ]

i think i'm all right, then?
i mean
depending on when they start counting
does stuff that happened at orientation count

are you okay for it?

[ and, uh ]

i'm not saying no
and thanks for the offer

it's [ what's the right word?? ] sweet

text; un: flyboy

[withinreach]

so you ended up taking one of those eggs too, huh?

[tornadoed]

yeah, i got talked into it
but i'm kind of enjoying it, honestly?

how about you?

[withinreach]

same, kind of. I didn't get talked into it as much as informed afterward

I'm not sure how I feel about these things being part of an experiment, but I guess it seems happy? it's been making these chirping noises

[ it almost sounds like it's trying to imitate BB-8 and okay, yeah that's cute ]

[tornadoed]

yeah? how did that happen?

mine, too
and it started moving, so i've been trying to make sure it doesn't fall off anything

[ attached: a picture of the egg on her bed with her pillow on one side and the blankets arranged in a u-form around it. also in the shot: part of dorothy's (naked) leg.

look, she's just hanging out with the egg, she's not going to put on pants for that. ]

text; un: lucas

[scarecrowed]

[ Dorothy leaving his apartment without saying goodbye could be down to one of two options: she got scared and ran away. Or she's in some kind of danger. (And then there's a third option that hasn't occurred to him.) ]

hey, you didn't wake me before leaving...

are you all right?

[tornadoed]

hi

[ she's a little blissed out, lazily content, and his message makes her smile, no thought for all the reasons why maybe it shouldn't ]

i'm good
the egg hatched and woke me up
and then the creature that came out of it snuck out of your apartment, so i had to chase it

[scarecrowed]

[ Lucas has the same look on his face he wore when she told him to take off his clothes that one time in the middle of a village. ]

what? what is it? is it dangerous?

[tornadoed]

i don't think so
i mean
it's kind of like an octopus?

text; un: flyboy

[withinreach]

so, a completely theoretical question for you. if you didn't have any plans for this evening and you could go anywhere in the city, where would you want to go?

[tornadoed]

completely theoretically?
i heard there's a beach
is there a steakhouse?

[withinreach]

completely theoretically
you know, unless you don't want it to be, in which case not at all

and it's yes to both questions

[tornadoed]

are you asking me out?

text; un: lucas

[scarecrowed]

did you know we lose our memories of here when we leave?

[ He recently found out and he's upset. He's sick of his memories being tampered with. And he doesn't want to forget his happier moments here with Dorothy, as short-lived as they were. ]

[tornadoed]

we do?

[ she did not know that ]

[scarecrowed]

[ ...Oh. Great. Now he's ruined her day too. ]

it's true
I trust who told me

I'm sorry

[tornadoed]

how do they know? did they go back?

[ she doesn't like the idea of it at all

doesn't like the notion of leaving silvester behind. of not having it be her choice to leave or stay ]