allstars | pc catchall | kate

[halians]

if i type kate into my browser i still get our pc catchall from scawwy and i think that's very cute

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[sootprints]

[ GIVES HIM A LOOK (it's impossible to tell what the look is.)

then turns to look at strohl jr, who has wiggled his way into getting scritches. ]

Strohl Jr is still here...? I thought he might have gone...

[halians]

[ the energy's still there - he smiles a little when the Look comes, even. ]

I thought so too. [ that he'd be off on a flight to god knows where. ] But here he is.

Think animals are pretty decent with this kind of thing. Maybe he's a sense for where he's needed.

[sootprints]

[ remembers that i have an icon for petting. yay... ]

So he'll be staying with you, will he? I'm a little glad, even if Vi might miss him.

[halians]

[ pets you pets you pets you

he nods, watching her pet strohl jr. soothing. ]

Seems like. [ ... ] Just like her, to think of something like that. Always thinking of others.

[sootprints]

It is.

... I relied on her a lot, in that adventure.

[halians]

Yeah.

[ soft. ] Can't say I'm surprised - she wanted to protect you all with her life. One of her best qualities.

...I miss her already. [ again. again, again. ] Feels like it's really setting in, now.

[sootprints]

... Me, too.

We'll need to make sure to write her. Have you sent one already?

[halians]

[ .... ]

No, I haven't.

[ her kindness - the words in her letter she hastily scrawled - felt like something undeserved for his failures. the burden of that shame is as heavy as a weight. two times in a row, vi died in the same conditions. three times, that she placed her trust and safety in strohl's hands, and he wasn't able to protect her at all. ]

But you ought to. I know she'd be glad to hear from you after all that you went through, Miss Kate.

[sootprints]

I will.

[ she turns her head towards him, expression unreadable as always. ]

... She was in the same round as you, wasn't she? I know that she died then, too. Even though it still feels hard to believe...

[halians]

The same way that she did this time.

[ which is the worst part of it. ]

Woke up on a Thursday after disappearing on a trip, and was killed while she was weakened.

[sootprints]

... Ah.

The way events seem to repeat here, it really is like rubbing salt in a wound...

[halians]

Cycles, Alex called it.

[ a soft snort, humourless. ]

[sootprints]

... She mentioned that to me, too. Though at the time, I didn't believe things would repeat to this extent...