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[dead_tongue]

yeah. I know. you keep expecting to bump against hard edges, but they're soft. you can forget where you end. are you having dreams?

tell Takeshi he sucks and that I miss him.

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I am, but that's not new. If slightly more unsettling than it might've been six months ago.

[ Dreams as windows has really done a number on his ability to let bad dreams be bad dreams. He has to keep reminding himself that they're isolated here. That there's every chance he's as cut off from that aspect of the multiverse as the rest of it. ]

I'll pass that message along for you gladly. What'd he do?

[dead_tongue]

do you have something to knock you out if they get very bad? and you're not sleeping alone, right?

thanks. oh, nothing, I just like to tease him. it's good for him, you know. you should try it - he makes this face like 'everyone is stupid except me and I'm so confused about it.'

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I have a slightly complicated relationship with both the apothecary and the clinic at the moment. But I'm doing ok. And I have company.

[ Hahaha, ] I know the one. Dead giveaway that he's talking to someone in his head. You haven't seen much of him lately?

[ It's not - surprising, in hindsight, given how much Stephen's been seeing of him. ]

[dead_tongue]

yeah. I know. I can get you whatever you want, should you change your mind.

if he's making grumpy noise he's probably talking to me lol.

no. he bitched me out for my own good and then came to check up on me because he's convinced I'll walk into traffic if left unsupervised, but that's all.
(I won't, for the record.)

I'm glad he's with you.

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Thank you.

[ Earnest. Taking him up on it would be the same kind of too easy that stealing what he needs or conjuring it himself would be, but the sentiment is no less meaningful for his reticence to make use of the offer. ]

Me too. But I seem to have graduated from the need for constant supervision by whatever observation metric he's using. You should to be seeing more of him soon if you're back at work.

[dead_tongue]

my pleasure.

he's pretty good at it, huh? the bitching and protecting both.

I'm actually taking a little time off. gonna pretend I'm monogamous for the week at least lol

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Good for you. You're overdue some time of your own.

[dead_tongue]

I'm gonna spoil the hell out of Grady instead of taking clients.

maybe I'll see you around the festival. you should get out, have some fun.

life goes on, you know? that's the hell of it.