I don't think so, honestly. I just want a chance for
us to touch base. You were someone I considered a friend. A new friend, but
a friend all the same.
[ no, it wasn't the best first meeting they had. but wash had wanted
to do right by locus and he... missed the mark a little, he feels, so
wrapped up in his own issues. he wants a chance to make it right. ]
[ If he says so, perhaps he believes it for himself.Locus is a little more skeptical, but unwilling to argue. Perhaps in time he will come to find out for himself, rather than be told. ]
[ He reads over that answer several times. He thinks of contingencies. He wonders about the possibilities.
It wasn't that he wanted to know what lay for him in the future. He didn't. He was alive and that told him enough. But there was a notion of camaraderie, belonging that had eluded him for so very long.
How long was he willing to keep a closed door to that idea? ]
There's a good place down near the dome. Food's safe right now, has a lot of spicy options.
[ he pings the location. it's the updated version of the place he and locus went to before - with less snail mascots and they've figured out the menu now. he remembers locus finding it decent enough. ]
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I don't think so, honestly. I just want a chance for us to touch base. You were someone I considered a friend. A new friend, but a friend all the same.
[ no, it wasn't the best first meeting they had. but wash had wanted to do right by locus and he... missed the mark a little, he feels, so wrapped up in his own issues. he wants a chance to make it right. ]
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[ Sounds fake, but okay. ]
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[ If he says so, perhaps he believes it for himself.Locus is a little more skeptical, but unwilling to argue. Perhaps in time he will come to find out for himself, rather than be told. ]
We fought alongside one another, then?
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[ it's not quite a lie, even if fighting together was shorter a period than against. ]
I'd like to talk in person, if you don't mind? If nothing else, so you know what I look like.
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It wasn't that he wanted to know what lay for him in the future. He didn't. He was alive and that told him enough. But there was a notion of camaraderie, belonging that had eluded him for so very long.
How long was he willing to keep a closed door to that idea? ]
Very well. When?
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Whenever is good for you. Now, if you'd like.
[ wash has an idea brewing. to know locus before he went down that dark path. to gain insight... or maybe to stop it from happening in some reality. ]
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[ he pings the location. it's the updated version of the place he and locus went to before - with less snail mascots and they've figured out the menu now. he remembers locus finding it decent enough. ]
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Very well. One hour.