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[oversea]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[oversea]

... It's difficult to say. We know there were others around who we haven't seen. Or cases like you.

[ who were just. somewhere else for half the time.

he sighs. ]

... If it's not her, then who is it?

[tindery]

[ where'd they go...

tobari will just toss his shard over. a young girl is sleeping in a bed of flowers. ]

My sister. [ a beat ] Half-sister, technically.

[ but obviously the technicality so barely matters to him ]

[oversea]

Oh.

[ thorns doesn't have siblings, so he isn't personally familiar with that type of bond but he knows how much it means to people. ]

How old is she?

[tindery]

Sixteen.

[ she is just... a baby ]

[oversea]

Is she...?

[ alive... ]

[tindery]

[ . . . shakes head ]

There was a fire.

[oversea]

[ he nods his head, going quiet for a moment before he finally settles on the next thing he wants to say. ]

And you've been making positive progress with your shard?

[tindery]

Somehow.

[ he's surprised by it too ]

... haven't really thought of failure as an option.

[oversea]

Then continue not to. You're almost to the finish line.

[ they have no idea what the finish line even entails, but all they can do is keep striving towards the end of this. ]

[tindery]

We all are, somehow.

[ which again, he is surprised about ]

Making progress on yours?

[oversea]

... Yeah. Admittedly I wasn't doing well in the beginning, but it's been fine now.

[ hopefully he still somehow fails at the finish line. ]

[tindery]

[ you stop that

tobari nods ]

... that's good. And it's not like they gave us any damn direction in the beginning either.