MOONRISE

Last Edit: Apr 24, 2022 19:39:17 GMT -7 by maddox ruchbah

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MONKEY KING

etude [ npc, c ] Apr 25, 2022 15:48:35 GMT -7 maddox ruchbah, kasimir burovski, and 1 more like this

Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2022 15:48:35 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] He gets a text from Maddox the second he leaves the bar to head home, shakes his head at the notification, and resolves to open it only in the morning.[break][break]

If Maddox couldn't deal with work life balance on his own, Zeke would have to lead by example.
[break][break]
(It's only in the morning that he realizes it's related to the venia token and his ascension to Acolyte, and not something to do with the shifts he'd taken off.)

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[attr="class","contact"]

Maddox

maddox ruchbah

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[attr="class","imbody"]

june 28

9:21AM
hey

9:22AM
congratulations!! ya farah told me u reached acolyte

9:22AM
well that's what i extrapolated anyway

9:23AM
u know how she is

9:25AM
so how familiar are you with the handler network?

Hydra acolyte

200

bio inventory dev plot

gold

familiar lyra, harpy eagle

played by lav

I THINK I COULD CHEW THE MOON TO SHREDS IF I TRIED HARD ENOUGH

suneater

etude [ npc, c ] Apr 25, 2022 17:05:23 GMT -7 kasimir burovski and basil fade like this

Post by maddox ruchbah on Apr 25, 2022 17:05:23 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]go to sleep, lyra says eventually. something about the trip has sated her, maddox thinks; she almost sounds kind, if he didn't know her any better. i'll wake you when he replies.[break][break]

true to her word, she does.

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","imbody"]

9:25AM
gmrongi

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke congratulations!! ya farah told me u reached acolyte

9:26AM

tyyy

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke so how familiar are you with the handler network?

9:27AM
vaguely?? i know it exists etc

9:28AM
but mostly ive jsut had contact through the bar or forge or aeris tells me stuff

9:28AM
why??

Last Edit: Apr 25, 2022 17:10:08 GMT -7 by maddox ruchbah

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Application Inventory dev plot

gold

familiar iorek byrnison

played by pandora

average angst enjoyer

content monkey

etude [ npc, c ] Apr 29, 2022 17:38:17 GMT -7 maddox ruchbah, kasimir burovski, and 2 more like this

Post by pandora on Apr 29, 2022 17:38:17 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] Zeke more or less expects that answer -- Maddox had grown up in Hydra, after all, and handlers these days were reserved for people who needed a direct contact more than he did.[break][break]
As he's typing, he realizes it's been a long time since he's said anything like this, and it's surely never happened over text before. How times have changed. He finds himself explaining it a few different ways before he settles. [break][break]As usual, Zeke tells the story between the lines, and gives what is truthfully an irrefutable order in such a way that it sounds like a suggestion -- a barista's touch.

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[attr="class","contact"]

Maddox

maddox ruchbah

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[attr="class","imbody"]

june 28

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox but mostly ive jsut had contact through the bar or forge or aeris tells me stuff

9:30AM
ohh i see

9:30AM
makes sense, ig the system has loosened up compared to how it was in the day

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox why??

9:30AM
ah well

9:31AM
now that ur an acolyte, we think it's best if you had an official handler

9:36AM
i don't take on a lot of new apprentices anymore

9:36AM
but we've known each other for a while, and this would just b an extension of that, basically. with a bit more purpose to it.

9:37AM
like, i would finally actually have to answer your questions

9:37AM
maaaybe.

Last Edit: Apr 29, 2022 17:38:45 GMT -7 by pandora

Hydra acolyte

200

bio inventory dev plot

gold

familiar lyra, harpy eagle

played by lav

I THINK I COULD CHEW THE MOON TO SHREDS IF I TRIED HARD ENOUGH

suneater

etude [ npc, c ] Apr 30, 2022 5:34:16 GMT -7 kasimir burovski, Quynh Le, and 1 more like this

Post by maddox ruchbah on Apr 30, 2022 5:34:16 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]he blinks at his phone. rereads the message twice, then thrice, then one more time just in case. he says, out loud, "oh."[break][break]

then, bolting upright in a flurry of covers, he continues, eloquently, breathlessly, "holy shit."[break][break]

he's wide awake now, which means he hears clearly when lyra laughs at him, the sound loud and unfettered, simple in its joy.

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]

[attr="class","contact"]

ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","imbody"]

9:38AM
OH?????

9:38AM
is this sth i have to say yes to ?? like were u expecting an answer

9:38AM
bc obviously yes

9:39AM
tho it didnt feel like a question but ANYWAY

9:39AM
that sounds?? really nice ???? i'd love to ???????

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]there has to be some better way to respond to this, but he's hit send several times by now, and his excitement is palpable even over the brief sequence of texts.[break][break]

frankly, he doesn't even care right now that zeke is, as always, being evasive about the constant barrage of questions maddox subjects him to. his thoughts are, instead, a tangled mess of i actually get a handler? and 'i don't take on a lot of new apprentices anymore' — which leads to the stunned, almost disbelieving, i get to be your apprentice?[break][break]

lyra untangles herself from the covers that had been thrown gracelessly over her head. calm down, she says wryly, but not unkindly, you're smiling like an idiot.

Last Edit: Apr 30, 2022 5:40:06 GMT -7 by maddox ruchbah

Administrator high priestess

999

Application Inventory dev plot

gold

familiar iorek byrnison

played by pandora

average angst enjoyer

content monkey

etude [ npc, c ] May 1, 2022 0:34:11 GMT -7 kasimir burovski, lav, and 1 more like this

Post by pandora on May 1, 2022 0:34:11 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] Maddox seems...happy. That's good, he thinks. He hadn't really expecting anything less, either. But he has to laugh, at least a little, when Maddox catches on to the not-so-question he had posed. It was time to be a little more serious, then.

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[attr="class","contact"]

Maddox

maddox ruchbah

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[attr="class","imbody"]

june 28

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox bc obviously yes

9:39AM
haha good to hear

9:39AM
well then it's official! over text is a little weird, but we'll do something more serious next time we meet

9:40AM
for now though

9:42AM
the most important thing to be said is that this is a two way relationship

9:43AM
if at any point u want to switch things up and learn from someone new, i won't take it personally

9:43AM
well maybe a little : ( (

9:44AM
but u always have the right to ask to be reassigned OK?

9:44AM
i think i'm fairly chill as far as handlers go

Last Edit: May 1, 2022 0:34:29 GMT -7 by pandora

Hydra acolyte

200

bio inventory dev plot

gold

familiar lyra, harpy eagle

played by lav

I THINK I COULD CHEW THE MOON TO SHREDS IF I TRIED HARD ENOUGH

suneater

etude [ npc, c ] May 1, 2022 1:26:37 GMT -7 milo tremerie, kasimir burovski, and 1 more like this

Post by maddox ruchbah on May 1, 2022 1:26:37 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]you're pacing, lyra says, which is obvious: of course he's pacing around, how could he not? he looks at her incredulously.[break][break]

try putting the phone down.[break][break]

it sounds like a challenge, and he rarely steps down from a challenge. so he lays it flat against the desk and sits cross-legged on the floor, and stares petulantly at his familiar. then, the phone buzzes, and he immediately lunges for it once more.

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]

[attr="class","contact"]

ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","imbody"]

9:39AM
WOOHOOO sounds exciting !! !

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke if at any point u want to switch things up and learn from someone new, i won't take it personally

9:45AM
DULY NOTED BUT ALSO

9:45AM
sorry caps

9:45AM
preeeetty sure i would never ask for that

9:46AM
so does this mean i get assignments thru u now mostly ??

9:47AM
wait also does thsi mean ur gonna show me more magcc 👀

9:47AM
magic

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke well then it's official! over text is a little weird, but we'll do something more serious next time we meet

9:47AM
also wdym next time we meet do i need to bring anythign-

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]lyra smacks the phone out of his hand before the incessant barrage of question wells up again.[break][break]

you're being ridiculous, she says, but it is more chuckle than reprimand.[break][break]

"come on—" maddox dutifully deletes the rest of the questions before he sends them. "—like you aren't also delighted by this."[break][break]

the eagle hums. don't mess it up now, then.

Last Edit: May 1, 2022 1:28:45 GMT -7 by maddox ruchbah

Administrator high priestess

999

Application Inventory dev plot

gold

familiar iorek byrnison

played by pandora

average angst enjoyer

content monkey

etude [ npc, c ] May 1, 2022 1:51:29 GMT -7 maddox ruchbah, kasimir burovski, and 2 more like this

Post by pandora on May 1, 2022 1:51:29 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] Sometimes, he honestly can't wrap his head around Maddox. [break][break]

It's the post-war generation, Ajax says. Plus, his family...[break][break]

Yeah, Zeke knows. But it's still amusing to see.

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Maddox

maddox ruchbah

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[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox so does this mean i get assignments thru u now mostly ??

9:47AM
yes

9:48AM
finally don't have to worry abt tiur texting you

9:48AM
and the only internal compliance u'll have to worry abt is well me

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox magic

9:48AM
sure. if that's what you want

9:49AM
think of me as a resource

9:49AM
but also a friend, mentor, etc. OK?

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox also wdym next time we meet do i need to bring anythign-

9:48AM
i don't think so?

9:43AM
actually yeah. i heard aeris has a heidsiek from the '10s??

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] He's only joking of course. He's pretty sure that bottle costs a fortune.

Last Edit: May 1, 2022 1:52:45 GMT -7 by pandora

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etude [ npc, c ] May 1, 2022 15:05:50 GMT -7 basil fade likes this

Post by maddox ruchbah on May 1, 2022 15:05:50 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]'internal compliance' still sounds like a terrifying concept, but it only gives him the slightest amount of pause now. not that he worries because he has anything planned, but only because he doesn't know what may happen.[break][break]

on a day like this, though, he doesn't let the memory of the prophecy settle into its weight. he blinks, and it dissolves like mist in morning sun.[break][break]

besides. it's zeke — he trusts him.

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke and the only internal compliance u'll have to worry abt is well me

9:48AM
cool cool cool

9:48AM
ill behave i swear

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke but also a friend, mentor, etc. OK?

9:49AM
ofc !! ! !

9:50AM
always

[attr="class","typingdiv"][attr="class","typing"]MADDOX IS TYPING...

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]in a blink, he's down the stairs, skidding around a corner, making a beeline for where he knows aeris keeps the bottles. a moment later, he's snapped a blurry picture of the bottle in question, and only belatedly darts into the kitchen to ask — "hey— g'morning— can i take this?"[break][break]

"it's not even noon," aeris says mildly, an eyebrow raised.[break][break]

"wh— no, i wasn't gonna—"[break][break]

aeris waves him off, laughing. "sure, sure. be responsible and all that. i saved you some breakfast too if you want to grab it later?"

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke actually yeah. i heard aeris has a heidsiek from the '10s??

9:52AM
bet

9:52AM
this one?

9:53AM
[ image attached ]

Last Edit: May 1, 2022 15:06:30 GMT -7 by maddox ruchbah

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etude [ npc, c ] May 2, 2022 0:20:20 GMT -7 maddox ruchbah and basil fade like this

Post by pandora on May 2, 2022 0:20:20 GMT -7

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[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox [ attachment ]

9:54AM
...

9:55AM
i was JOKING maddox omg

9:55AM
it really doesn't carry well over text huh

9:56AM
bring it if you like, we'll share a drink or two

[attr="class","typingdiv"][attr="class","typing"]EZEKIEL IS TYPING...

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] Oh? Ajax asks, surprised at what Zeke is beginning to type. You're being diligent...[break][break]
Technically, this will be his first handler in Hydra, Zeke reasons. As a controller, he's not usually a witch's first handler, and isn't expected to truly induct them into the coven. And it would make sense if he just didn't -- not like Maddox needs an introduction to Hydra, anyway.[break][break]
But something compels him to do things by the book, to be meticulous.[break][break]
Meticulous? Ajax asks. Or sentimental?

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june 28

9:58AM
we'll meet at the bar. after hours ofc

10:00AM
have you been to siren's cove? it's a bit of a trek, but we'll go there after to officiate everything

10:01AM
it might be a bit late for an initiation ceremony but

10:01AM
late than never?

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etude [ npc, c ] May 2, 2022 9:02:54 GMT -7 basil fade likes this

Post by maddox ruchbah on May 2, 2022 9:02:54 GMT -7

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke i was JOKING maddox omg

9:57AM
OH

9:57AM
WELl

9:58AM
ill bring it anyw LOL since i have it now

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]he's back in his room, bottle in hand, by the time he realises zeke was joking. not that it matters too much — he does probably owe zeke a nice drink for putting up with him for so long, as well as apparently being willing to put up with him for the foreseeable future.[break][break]

it's all a bit insane really, and the concept of sharing a drink or two with him as handler and apprentice sounds like something far-fetched, plucked from the dreams of an over-eager young witch unfamiliar with the weight of a name.[break][break]

just a drink or two, lyra says wryly. don't do whatever you did last time.[break][break]

"oh, please." why'd she have to bring that up? besides, that was different. he knows better, anyway; the good things never stay when you're too far out, and he thinks he'd want to remember this.

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ZEKE !!

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10:02AM
okieee

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke have you been to siren's cove? it's a bit of a trek, but we'll go there after to officiate everything

10:02AM
is it the one at the end of worlds edn beach??

10:03AM
dont think ive ever been but sure im down for a hike

10:03AM
better late than never ! !!

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]it is a little strange, considering initiation ceremonies now. he was born into hydra as much as he was born into the ruchbah family, or the fragmented remains of both. it's... interesting, to think of the opportunity to breathe and rebuild, enough to consider reviving these rituals; he knows his own family has their own fair share of them, that aeris wears the careful scars of history deliberately, and that he himself has an enchanter's mark burned into the top of his spine.[break][break]

he's not foolish enough to think that hydra's traditions are not equally steeped in blood. but it doesn't deter him — to learn to love is to learn to die, after all.[break][break]

he swirls the bottle in his hand idly, watching the shift of light through glass.

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ZEKE !!

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10:05AM
ok like completely unrelated but rt tho

10:05AM
am i allowed to start asking those questions that you may-or-may-not answer now or do i have to wait-

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etude [ npc, c ] May 2, 2022 22:56:19 GMT -7 basil fade likes this

Post by pandora on May 2, 2022 22:56:19 GMT -7

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june 28

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox is it the one at the end of worlds edn beach??

10:02AM
yeah it's the furthest south you can get iirc

10:05AM
haha

10:05AM
go for it

10:06AM
what do you wanna know?

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etude [ npc, c ] May 3, 2022 8:48:14 GMT -7 basil fade likes this

Post by maddox ruchbah on May 3, 2022 8:48:14 GMT -7

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]curiously, he watches the interior of his room through the distorted amber prism of the bottle of heidsiek. an idle curl of his fingers sends the enchanted papers atop his desk into a flurry of motion, until they splay out across the wall like his own private map of delphi. he lifts his hand, and the light glances off the silver of his ring, and illuminates the corner of a scrawled note.[break][break]

he lets the curiosity snag the corner of his mind. does he actually think zeke will answer him? debatable. could he have picked a better question to start this whole thing off with? probably.[break][break]

he asks anyway.

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke yeah it's the furthest south you can get iirc

10:07AM
dope okie

10:07AM
ok so

10:08AM
can i ask how u and jeremaiah know each other

10:08AM
but mostly why is his drink of choice Like That

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]i bet he's immediately trying to think of how to rescind his offer about this whole handler thing.[break][break]

really?[break][break]

...okay, stop looking at me like that. i'm sure it'll be fine, you've asked stupider before. probably.[break][break]

maybe i should've asked about-[break][break]

a little late for that, isn't it.

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etude [ npc, c ] May 3, 2022 21:56:43 GMT -7 maddox ruchbah and basil fade like this

Post by pandora on May 3, 2022 21:56:43 GMT -7

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Maddox

maddox ruchbah

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june 28

[attr="class","msgreply"]maddox can i ask how u and jeremaiah know each other

10:10AM
jeremiah knox?

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[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"] He sends the message before he's even really thinking about it -- who else named Jeremiah would Maddox be asking about, after all? [break][break]
Ezekiel snorts at the other question. A Fischer isn't the worst choice, and he's half tempted to defend it, but first he supposes he needs to do some explaining, as promised. He's not going to tell Maddox everything though. There are some things the kids just don't need to know.

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Maddox

maddox ruchbah

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june 28

10:13AM
uhhh. i grew up around the docks and it was kind of impossible not to run into The Knox Heir back then

10:13AM
the family practically owns all the marinas and ports and warships after all

10:15AM
childhood friends? kinda?

10:17AM
we fell out of touch after ..... well,,

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etude [ npc, c ] May 6, 2022 4:46:50 GMT -7 basil fade likes this

Post by maddox ruchbah on May 6, 2022 4:46:50 GMT -7

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke jeremiah knox?

10:10AM
ya

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]between that and zeke's subsequent replies lies the longest seven minutes of his life.[break][break]

childhood friends, huh?[break][break]

he could add it to the board. he doesn't, though. it feels wrong to write something like that out, like he's prying open something that was never made to withstand the harshness of being seen.[break][break]

knuckle against teeth, maddox is silent. it's strange, to consider growing up within the heart of enemy territory, until he blinks and thinks, isn't that what he did as well? aeris moved the family here on purpose after all, and taught him that sometimes, the best way to survive is with an easy smile, to open the door when the wolf comes knocking — yeah? how can i help?[break][break]

don't forget, lyra reminds him, he also told you to never let go of the knife.[break][break]

a generation after the war, with the blood muddied by time, it's almost a little too easy to forget why he's here at all; a little too easy to forget how one chance meeting after another isn't actually just chance, but the machinery of war and hunger constantly ticking down, hiding in every shadow: a small, underfed assassin dwarfed in the doorway of the forge, a pale-haired knight waltzing through the same doorway and selecting a silver sword.[break][break]

it's okay, lyra. i still remember.

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ZEKE !!

ezekiel belgrass

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10:18AM
ohhhhhhhhhh

10:19AM
thanks for answering

10:19AM
and sorry, i think

[attr="class","msgreply"]zeke the family practically owns all the marinas and ports and warships after all

10:21AM
do they still ??

10:22AM
i seem to keep running into more cerbs around the docks these days and idk if htats coincidence or not :/

[attr="class","spellchat-hydra"]a small wince as he types the apology. it feels a little too sincere and looks strange over text, but at the same time, it feels strange to simply move along, especially after zeke's seen him at the bar those few months ago, distraught over confronting a friend on the other side.[break][break]

but the second part of his messages hides a question he's not quite sure how to ask.[break][break]

how do you do it? how do you see these people whose lives are intertwined with your own either through fate or sheer bad luck, knowing most will face you on the other side of the battlefield?[break][break]

how do you drown the part of you that still wants to reach out to them?