✶ imeeji: voicemail

[scattershot]

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At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished recording you may hang up, or press 1 for more options.

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Day 431, evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Someone has left a festive wrapped package outside your room. The tag, in Hurricane's sloppy handwriting, is addressed to you by name, and it reads: "Happy holidays, dude!" There is also a jar of dark chocolate rum truffles.]

[Inside the package is a pomegranate spa kit.]

Day 430, evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Later in the evening, there's a knocking on Alisaie's door]

Re: Day 430, evening

[scattershot]

It's not locked.

[She's lying on the bed, reading a book she picked up from the library - The Count of Monte Cristo, not very academic of her but Grandfather understood the value of a break every now and then. It's airship fiction, really: all improbable treasures and star-crossed lovers and swearing vengeance on all who have wronged you, and their families and their baristas and their dogs, et cetera.]

[Not Alphinaud, then. He'd have knocked, but he probably wouldn't have waited.]

Re: Day 430, evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

[There's a brief hesitation, and then the door cracks open]

...hey.

Re: Day 430, evening

[scattershot]

Hurricane.

[She sits up, dog-ears a page of the book. Drops it onto the bed.]

Did something happen?

[It almost has to have done. Without a reason, he wouldn't be here at all.]

Re: Day 430, evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

I, uh. I went to go hit up future is now. About today.

Re: Day 430, evening

[scattershot]

And? What did they tell you?

You haven't hurt yourself, have you?

Re: Day 430, evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

One of the Sensitiv girls said that, where she's from, this kinda thing would get used as a bug.

So I asked future is now to check it out, and - turns out she's right. It's a tracker, and it records audio.

Re: Day 430, evening

[scattershot]

Oh.

[The worst part of it? There's no surprise there at all, just the weary resignation that comes of having all one's worst suspicions confirmed: so there's the other shoe. Some part of her has only been expecting to hear it. Waiting for it, even.]

Of course it is.

Re: Day 430, evening

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... pretty much.

443 or smth

[weenwoon]

[hello i am here for tempered shenanigans :) ]

Accomplice: Alisaie, good day! I was wondering if you'd be willing to meet up. I wanted to ask you some things about your world... As you can guess, the only perspective I've been allowed so far has been somewhat skewed. I would much rather hear from the new life themselves. :)

[Haha totally normal questions :) about the sundered world :) just wanna be friends with u :) ]

Day 458

[firstworldproblem]

Alexander: I would like to speak to you and your twin.
Alexander: Separate or together. Whichever makes you most comforatble.
Alexander: At your earliest convenience.