pc: marcoh

[spiritbalm]

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[spiritbalm]

If you cut yourself off from the world, feel nothing, be nothing, then you're no better than Tranquil already.

[ yeah he's heard that opinion too. ]

Were you close to them? Su Waner and Neverah.

[boxcar]

[ He nods slowly on the first thing. ]

I wouldn't say "close" I think. Not anything like Jiaoqiu, or Taair. But it's enough that I wish I could have done something different.

[ Not to say that he was OK with other people dying at all, it's just. Definitely not nobodies to him. He can stay functioning though. ]

[spiritbalm]

I understand the feeling.

[ picking at the bandages on his hands. ]

I've been trying to text God. They will not respond.

[boxcar]

[ What a sentence. ]

You can do that?

[spiritbalm]

[ not successfully, apparently. ]

I just started trying. Ah-- that reminds me, did Richie or any of the others tell you about their strange message?

[boxcar]

Yoji did, through Rich. I'll need to find one of the others that disappeared off to see if they got anything similar.

[ He's a little reluctant to just leap into business after the end of the hard week, but he's led to assume that if it was going to happen, it's after execution. ]

[spiritbalm]

Word will get around if it does, I think-- no need to go chasing it down today.

[ today sucks enough already. might as well take a night off. ]

You want to get a drink?

[boxcar]

I'll give it a moment, then ask. I want to check on Koharu too.

[ That being said, he'll do it when it's quieter. Tensions can be high so soon after nonsense. ]

Yeah, I can do a drink.

[spiritbalm]

Alright, big guy, come on then.

[ heading off in the direction of the bar. fuck it. ]

So, apart from all the death and fear, are you alright? Seems only fair I get to ask since everyone is so concerned that I look like I'm on a ledge at all times.

[boxcar]

You seem good at keeping yourself together, if that is any consolation.

[ CONSIDERING. He follows. ]

Ay, I'm alright. Obviously not happy about all this, but I am holding on as long as everyone else is.

[spiritbalm]

[ a half-shrug. ]

I am used to managing myself. There are good days and bad days.

[boxcar]

Everyone can say that all they please.

[ To the bar. ]

What do you like?

[spiritbalm]

I'm not picky. I'll have whatever you're having.

[ going to sit down then since marcoh is being polite. ]

And I'm not saying platitudes. It's been like that as long as I can remember. The moods come and go.

[boxcar]

I know. I meant to say that that just sounds normal to me.

[ You can't stay in one singular mood for forever. Marcoh isn't picky at all when it comes to drinks so unless Anders is like actually this fucking SUCKS, they're both getting a plain beer. ]