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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]

[ 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]

[searingedgelord]

I know that, but...

[her brow furrows a little as she tries to figure out how to explain, but actually finds it hard, because looking at it realistically she knows his feelings aren’t her responsibility, but also she wished she could do more]

I don’t know. I guess I just would have liked to help, but didn’t know how.

[mind_blown]

[... oh. he's.

been stupid.]

... Yeah. I don't think there was a good way. I wasn't thinking straight.

[he's still not thinking straight?]