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[mind_blown]

"This is Jason. Leave a message.

Or don't. I don't care."

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[mind_blown]

[he sends a location to her-- somewhere a bit away from the hotel tower]

FIRESTARTER: is that good?

[searingedgelord]

Silk: Yeah, that's fine.
Silk: Be there soon.

[mind_blown]

[ Read. ✅]

[but he will be waiting-- not on a roof, just on the ground.

he does look a lot less pale than he did when he left. but also he's tired.]

[searingedgelord]

[oh. cool.

yes, she was willing to climb all the way to the top of a building to see him, it's fine.

Anyway, she shows up a little while later, and looks him over. She's relieved to see he is less pale at least.]

Hey. How have you been?

[mind_blown]

Fine.

[he realizes, oh. he feels a little bad? for searching out all that space. but also, there's still something that's unsettling him. he's still angry about what happened.]

Don't worry, haven't done anything too crazy.

[searingedgelord]

[she frowns a little]

That's not what I was worried about.

[mind_blown]

... Fair enough.

[he runs a hand quickly through his hair]

[searingedgelord]

I don't assume you actually go looking for trouble, you know.

[mind_blown]

You'd be wrong half the time, though.

[he's... he's half joking, and reaches out to grab her hand lightly]

[searingedgelord]

[She huffs!!

But she squeezes his hand]

[mind_blown]

[and he pulls her closer.]

I appreciate it, though.

[searingedgelord]

[she doesn't resist]

Mm. You look a little better, anyway.

[at least he's not super pale any more]

[mind_blown]

Yeah.

[he pauses.]

... I'm sorry for not saying anything.

[searingedgelord]

I'm not mad about that. Just...kind of confused, I guess. Why didn't you?

[like it didn't seem to be about protecting Malik, so]

[mind_blown]

[he shrugs lightly]

It didn't seem to be that big of a deal to everyone.

[searingedgelord]

Your mind being messed with is a big deal, but it's hard to show that if we don't know about it.

[mind_blown]

[he exhales and lightly squeezes her hand again]

Or what?

I talked to Malik before-- got him to agree to never do that again. I thought that was good enough.

[searingedgelord]

It's only good enough if it made you feel better about it.

[she sighs]

It's kind of a hard thing to talk about, though. I get that.

[there's a reason she doesn't talk about the trial much, unless it's specifically relevant in some way.]

[mind_blown]

... It would have been fine.

But Malik is Malik.

[searingedgelord]

[oh. yeah]

He still went looking for validation for it.

[mind_blown]

... Yeah.

[searingedgelord]

Mm.

I'm sorry...I didn't know how to help.

[mind_blown]

Why are you apologizing for that?

[she stopped him from killing griffin. he's actually pretty grateful for that.]

[searingedgelord]

[Yeah, but they’re talking about after that!!]

I don’t know. You were upset, and I just...froze up.

[mind_blown]

So...? That's not your fault. It's not like I expected you to solve anything...

[he doesn't know why he's so surprised that she's worried about that? but he is]