pc ♠ wiš'adel

[fried]

this is the only time i will spell her name the whole way

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[sarkazm]

What do you mean, what! You're the one snoozing on the ground.

[jiaoqiu what are you doing.]

[fried]

Oh. Wiš'adel.

[ a beat. ]

... I must have fallen asleep here last night. Somehow.

[sarkazm]

Oh. Figures that you were in here.

Messages didn't wake you up, huh?

[fried]

I didn't mean to...

[ ??? ]

What messages?

[sarkazm]

Ooh. Gonna be a rough wakeup for you, I'll bet. Do yourself a favor and stay on the floor.

[she tosses him her phone with the messages open.]

[fried]

[ it takes him... like, a full five minutes to read this

and then: ]

... I don't understand. Unresponsive, as in...

[sarkazm]

As in dead! What's with you today?

[still just fryin her potatoes]

[fried]

[ normally he'd just be like UHH ARE YOU OKAY but he has a general idea of what she's like to not bother asking why she isn't upset, ]

Nothing is with me. I've just woken up and you've dropped a dead body in my lap.

[sarkazm]

I could do that for real, next time.

[trust her. it can always get worse.]

Think these are about done, you want any?

[fried]

I'd prefer you don't.

[ GAZES. a beat. ]

Yes, alright. [ OKAY? SURE WE CAN JUST HAVE POTATOES ]

I would've expected you to be a little more annoyed about this.

[sarkazm]

What for? I get the room to myself, and I don't have to listen to her.

[dishing up some salted, fried hashbrowns...

after a second she considers, then sprinkles chili powder on jiaoqiu's.]

[fried]

[ oh, thanks, the chili powder is nice of her... delicious. ]

No, not about her. [ he figured she could give a shit about charlie, it's more: ] More the idea that it's possible to die a second time.

[sarkazm]

I'm not thrilled about it, no, but it's not like I was that close to biting the dust before. I know how to keep myself alive.

[taking a bite, talking mid mouthful-]

I just got unlucky!

[fried]

[ he's not particularly starving, but he does pick at the potatoes. ]

You don't think it's strange? We - ah, never mind. [ vaguely annoyed, as he tries to pick himself up off the floor. ] ... I don't understand what happened. She was fine.

[sarkazm]

Of course it's strange! But obviously, they're not telling us shit yet, since they're useless until they figure it out.

[wdym they didn't KNOW.]

[fried]

Emergency protocol means that they must have anticipated something like this happening. You don't write a protocol unless you think there's a chance.

... They'll need to report to their superiors, I imagine.

[sarkazm]

So, God? They better know, if they're in charge of this place.

[fried]

You'd be surprised how little a leader can know. Or maybe you wouldn't be.

[sarkazm]

Oh, not at all. But there's a difference between a leader and a god, isn't there?

[fried]

[ wrinkles his nose. ]

A god is nothing more than a politician elected to a very high position.

[sarkazm]

Really? Sounds like you're familiar with them.

[fried]

I've never personally met one, but I don't care much for any of the Aeons. [ like lan, he guesses is fine, but he believes in feixiao more than he believes in the hunt. ]

[sarkazm]

What are they even supposed to be like?

[she can't say she's heard of meeting one.]

[fried]

Unknowable. THEY construct reality, erase stars, and leave THEIR marks on countless worlds, and yet - the only thing any of us ever feel from THEM is the knowledge that you could fall straight onto THEIR path and never leave it.

[ obligatory he's not yelling in the middle of his sentence HSR just all caps the aeon pronouns for some reason ]

[sarkazm]

...yeah, no, I think I'd pass if I came from there.

[that sounds like something she'd rather not encounter.]