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Beatrice: Where do you want to meet up?

Fight Man: coffee shop place work? we can take a walk if it's crowded.

Beatrice: That would be nice. I'll see you there.

[he, in fact, is there and maybe someone helped him get out the worst of the blood from his tunic or lent him another shirt. it's fine. but he does look very tired, even with the usual perk up when he sees her.]

Hey.

[she is properly cleaned up by now, though also looking very tired]

Hey yourself.

[but tired or not, she's coming over to hug him happily like usual]

[hugs are definitely good and he's hugging back nice and securely.]

Pretty rough lately, huh.

Very much so. I did have a meeting with Finch that went relatively well, though. Hopefully things will get better on that front.

That's good. You guys definitely have been having it tough.

Think Sparrow might have to have one of those eventually... but we keep losing people on and off...

[no real point yet? maybe.]

It was like that for us too, for a while. Hopefull you'll stabilise eventually.

[...]

What should we start with?

Since we're on the topic... I got ordered to go to Minnow to check on Jessica yesterday.

Then got ordered to leave when I found out she... and Ange...

...Indeed. I noticed their profiles were gone.

[does she check on her loved ones regularly out of paranoia that they'll disappear, MAYBE]

[makes sense why they both were crying so much, then.]

... yeah? I'm still not sure how to really take that, if I'm honest.

Neither am I. Frankly, I've been trying to avoid thinking about it.

We have time to talk about it, now. Or, did you want to start on the next thing?

I don't even know what to say about them being gone...

... maybe we just remind each other there's not much we can do about it right now.

[but that timing--IN A WAY, GLAD THEY WEREN'T HERE FOR THE SCAVENGER GAME. there is still guilt on his face, though.]

That's true.

...I bet you keep thinking the same thing I do, that it was somehow our fault. Even though it obviously wasn't.

... kinda hard not to after what happened in that last game.

Which... [heavy sigh, nervous sigh really.] It was a bad idea. I knew it was, especially when you and Ange hate that, but I still...

...It was. And it was a bad idea for me to help you go through with it, when that didn't even end up helping me win the game.

Really makes you wonder what "brutal" or "emotionally damaging" thing got the others their win...

Either way... not doing it again. Not willingly. Frankly, I really just don't make a very good killer. No need to give that forgery more weight.

I'm glad to hear that. It really doesn't suit you at all.

You'd think I know that, right?

... I guess I'm still settling on some things.

[pats his cheek]

We both have plenty of things to work on, it seems.

[turns head to kiss that hand.]

Think that's the most of what's on my plate. There's talking it out with Zyrak and Kyrie-san, but... I think that's just on me to do.

I'm sure they will be understanding. You might get scolded a little, but you can handle that much.

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