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[doubledollar]

Hey, yo! You reached uh, me! You should know who this is, right?
Anyway, you must'a caught me at a bad time, so, uh. Leave a message! I'll get back to you soon as I can. Love and Peace!

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[poisontippedcure]

[She may not be smiling, but there's a part of her that's happy. Well, if not happy, content, at least. As dreadful as talking about all this is--it's certainly better than being there. And it's good to see her friends again too.]

They're gone, I think. I don't know if Zulius or any of the others there filled you in, but the realm we were taken too is closed now. They can't hurt us.

[A small relief, at least.]

I--we--figured that they had done something to mess with everyone's memories here. If they hadn't, we knew that you would have come for us.

[But they didn't, which could only mean there was something going on.]

And I thought that--that since nobody here knew--it would be better to not say anything. I thought that since the gate was closed, I'd stop feeling afraid. But I didn't.

[doubledollar]

Zulius and ... others.

[ it makes... sense. zulius had closed the vogue for a few days and vash hadn't thought anything of it--considered the guy was just taking a few days off, it was pretty normal? but no, it wasn't normal, was it? that wasn't normal at all. ]

I had no idea any of you were 'gone'. I... kept thinking maybe you were busy or off doing something, it didn't cross my mind... even if it might have, normally.

[ he looks... upset about that? what the fuck. ]

I don't know what they did to you. But I can feel it. [ he's going to once again put his forehead against Roses' temple. Eyes fluttering closed. That odd music that's just on the edges of vash's speech gets a little louder, a little more present in how it almost sinks into rose's mind. gentle. re-assuring. ]

Being afraid is normal. It's what's human.

...Stay with me for a while today, okay? You could even stay over at the cottage, if you'd like.