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[oversea]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[oversea]

[ turns up hien stop going places while blind

but thorns will speak, at least. ]

Hey.

[selfconcept]

[ no

But okay. He recognizes that voice. ]

"Oh, hey. You sound like you're doing well."

[ and not smelling as bloody, so that should be fine? Probably? sees what you made thorns lose and clenches my fist ]

[oversea]

Elysium forced me into the river, so I was healed properly.

[ it is not a great experience going in there but it gets the job done. ]

[selfconcept]

[ He gives the river a stinkeye again despite not being able to see it, but he knows its general direction. ]

"The river giveth and taketh away... and then gives it back if you're lucky? I think. So maybe it'll return whatever it took from you later."

[oversea]

I don't understand the timing of it coming back though. It took Elysium about a week.

[ well, whatever thorns forgot doesn't seem to be important, so he'll live. ]

[selfconcept]

[ SHAKES HIM, ME, HAKI ]

"Whatever I lost still hasn't come back to me either... but you can't really remember what you lost in the first place."

[ Castmates are good for that reason. Hien will never get any. ]

"In any case, a regular dip sounds better than dying and waking up in it."

[oversea]

... No, that does seem like it would be rough.

[ he isn't sure if that happened to anyone else but hak though. ]

Did you want to ask about what happened?

[selfconcept]

[ haha yeah it sure would be

anyway ]

"I'm curious... since only one person was relatively unscathed while the others were so badly injured. And for some reason, I ate dice?"

[ okay key eating asshole ]

[oversea]

I was not there to see you eat the dice, but is that so surprising?

[ key eating asshole ]

[selfconcept]

"I would actually not eat dice if I didn't have my powers on."

[ If there was another him over there eating dice, he has to assume that it was an illusion because there's no way there can be another Hien Callias there. Complicated lore stuff, but he is asking for a reason. ]

[oversea]

Okay...

Well, I wasn't there when it happened. We split up a few times during it.

[selfconcept]

[ Hien nods. That's fair. ]

"Were you all embroiled in some political war..."

[ With how they were dressed? ]

[oversea]

[ ... ]

No, we were just at a brothel, but we all had different backstories. Yuma was a prince, for example, and Hak was a soldier.

[selfconcept]

[ Just thinks about how it isn't all too different for Hak, but that makes so much more sense. ]

"A recon mission at a brothel, then?"

[oversea]

Yes. We woke up there after just being killed, and we had to figure out who killed us.

[ a murder mystery... ]

[selfconcept]

"Who was it?"

[ hien, the kind of guy that doesn't work well with mystery genre ]

[oversea]

... It was a different person for each of us. I assume it was all personal.

[ ... ]

But they were all working together, I assume.

[selfconcept]

[ damn..... ]

"Yours wasn't personal?"

[oversea]

It was.

[ he was just avoiding talking about it!!! ]

It was a very good friend of mine.

[selfconcept]

[ ... ]

"Elysium...?"

[ sorry that's the only friend he knows]

[oversea]

I know other people.

[ he is not saying he's wrong. ]

[selfconcept]

[ okay thorns. hien won't press on that. ]

"That you do."

[ Hm. ]

"Up for eating something? I'll cook."

[oversea]

... Only if you want.

[ it seems kind of troublesome to make someone cook... ]

[selfconcept]

"I do, actually. Just tell me what you want to eat, and I'll do my best to make it for you."

[ He has confidence despite being blind, so. Don't worry about it. ]

[oversea]

... Soup.

[ something nice and warm. ]