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[tongueamok]

Hello, this is Carlisle. I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er... Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo— [beep]

Comments

[unfollowing]

please. ask anyone who was there how you two looked together

[tongueamok]

[It takes a moment for this message to come in.]

And what does that mean?

[unfollowing]

[Every second that passes by before that response is just another reminder that she's right.]

why? worried about something?

[tongueamok]

I only worry for Glacius and how others might think of him.

[Good cover, Carlisle.]

[unfollowing]

oh my god. are you being self-deprecating right now? like what would people think of glacius for being seen with you?

[tongueamok]

They might think him burdened with keeping an eye on me.

[So that'd be a yes on the self-deprecation.]

[unfollowing]

it so did not look like that

[tongueamok]

Perhaps not to you with your "romanticism."

[unfollowing]

trust me, nobody thinks you're a burden to glacius

[tongueamok]

I wouldn't say 'nobody.'

[Oh.]

[unfollowing]

who. who would look at you two together and think that

[tongueamok]

I would.

[unfollowing]

[Oh.]

why?

[tongueamok]

He's far kinder a being than I deserve to have around, for one.

[unfollowing]

i totally get that feeling, but you're wrong. glacius chooses to spend time with us because he likes us. are you really arrogant enough to think he shouldn't be around you?

[tongueamok]

I have been told nearly my entire life that people shouldn't be around me. It's not that hard to believe he shouldn't, either.

[unfollowing]

and now i'm telling you that everyone who told you that is wrong. what the hell kind of assholes would say that to you?

[tongueamok]

They have their reasons.

[unfollowing]

[She is reminded, suddenly, if a conversation they had a while back, where she told him what happened to Beth and Hannah was her fault. He'd said then that he understood guilt. Is this part of that?]

something happened, and they blame you, and you blame yourself too, don't you

[tongueamok]

Yes.

[Sure did take him a while to send back such a short answer. Em hit the nail on the head.]

[unfollowing]

[Like before, the delay just tells her she's right.]

you don't have to tell me about it, that's your business

but remember when you told me that what i felt guilty over wasn't my fault? that i didn't have to punish myself for it, especially not here where i can do better?

well, same to you. whatever happened, you can't change it. but it's like glacius said: what matters is who you are now

[tongueamok]

[Emily and Glacius have such faith in him, just like Algidus before everything went so, so wrong. The one with the least amount of faith in Carlisle is Carlisle himself.

But he tells her what he told Glacius, even if he isn't sure how true it is.]

I will try, Emily. You, like him, are far kinder than I deserve.

[unfollowing]

yeah, no, that's not true, but you're not getting rid of me any time soon, so joke's on you

don't you dare not try

[tongueamok]

[She can't see it, but he smiles on the other end. Emily's stubbornness can be endearing, in a way.]

I trust you and Glacius will hold me to that.

[unfollowing]

[Carlisle has taken a level in friendship with Emily, as that thought proves.]

damn right we will

anyway, enjoy the glyph