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[shoubai]

WELCOME

House 1411

"Hello? Hello?? I'm sorry, there's nobody home right now. [ obnoxious peal of laughter: go ]

Ahh, that's right! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you. Right? That's how it goes? Aha, no telemarketers, please!

If you run up my bill, I'll have to ask you to pay the extra costs.

[ BEEP ]

Comments

Re: T E X T

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All of them
Pick one

Re: T E X T

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whats there to be worried about??
its just my wife

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

even if hes a little scary

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

ok no a lot scary

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

nothing to be worried about!
i have this completely underr controtl

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

[ can a man control a tsunami, though? a hurricane? an unforeseen chemical reaction? a bomb blast a pistol shot a speeding bullet tearing through flesh and blood and stupid tender organs? ]

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

its ok i have it under conyrol

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

dont worry

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

hes our business

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

hes my business

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

dont provoke him
dont approach him
dont speak to him
dont look him in the eye
dont think hes anything you can take
dont think hes anything you can handle

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

whats there to be worried about??
hes just my wife after all
ill keep it together

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

ok?

Re: T E X T

[whizbangs]

[a long minute later, and all she can do is read over the flood of messages again and again, he's my business, don't think he's anything you can take, don't think he's anything you can handle, and this is something carol never expected. doesn't know what to do with. he--]

Sakamoto
Are you? Ok?

[but the answer's obvious, and she's ready to grab her keys if she needs to, go find him if she needs to. he did it for her.]

Re: T E X T

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[ i'm drunk, he wants to say, wants to send, don't bother.

this isn't her business, shinsuke isn't her business, her duty, her obligation. she's a hero, pretty and proud and shining bright like a beacon, and she has no place in this.

she wasn't there on the battlefield with them

she didn't see what they did

feel what they did

do what they did

she isn't a brother of war like they are

a comrade, damn that entire notion ]

im fine
marital troubles thats all

Re: T E X T

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[I'm fine, they keep telling her. I'm fine I ain't a kid I don't need your help you can't help me. every time leaves carol feeling less and less fine herself, because she's so weak here, and even if she wasn't -- what could her power do for them?

her chest is tight, has been tight for so long, keeps winding tighter.]

I'm not stupid, I'm not naive
You're not protecting me
You're not fine

Re: T E X T

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you dont need protecting
he doess

[ he should save this, for when he can actually answer with any semblance of efficiency.

he's drunk.

he's too drunk.

he hasn't been in over a month. ]

Re: T E X T

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Badou
Don't you dare let him hurt badou
I don't care who he is to you, don't you dare

[it all feels so urgent, somehow -- badou is still talking to him, and she can see it all--]

Where are you

Re: T E X T

[shoubai]

he isnt
he wont
if he wanted to the boy woudl be deafsd already
badou will ebe bfine you have my word

Re: T E X T

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That's not the kind of hurt I mean

Re: T E X T

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hes stronbger than that carol
carol youve
never
lived that kidnof life hes
stronger fhhthan a lot of us

Re: T E X T

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You don't know what kind of life I've lived
Why the hell do you think I'm so worried about him