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[postictal]

You've reached Tim. Leave a message.

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[battlefront]

[Shouldn't have sent that. Should've just... pissed him off somehow or drove him away so he'd just forgotten about Cloud. Or something.

He swore off this long ago. That he'd just silently slough off somewhere.]

i'm fine.

[Always has been. Always able to look after himself, right?]

i promise.

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[Promises are just lies you haven't made yet.]

sure.
everybody's fine.
we're all fine.

[Everything is Fine.]

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[Boy, how could he screw up a simple 'thank you'.]

i still appreciate the help though

so

thanks. for that.

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helped me too.
so thanks for that.

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could help a bit better. if you'd be up for drinks sometime.

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depends on the kind.

[He can't exactly drink in the conventional sense.]

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someone said there's a coffee shop here, if you prefer that.

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[Coffee. 'Cause the nicotine addiction wasn't bad enough but - who's he kidding? He already gets caffeine headaches.]

yeah alright

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whenever you'd want. no pressure.

[Just. Something that isn't nearly dying and panic attacks for once. Sounds like they both need it.]

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we usually get a few weeks between events
something like that

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i noticed some weird faces show up just before it strikes.

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the residents yeah.
they usually say something cryptic just before hand

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if they're the ones triggering em, can't we stop it somehow?

we could kill th

[He deletes it. What the fuck was he thinking.]

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i dunno
i'm sure someone's tried that before

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somethin tells me they won't make it easy for us anyway.

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wouldn't think so no

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so

we survive. it's all we can do.

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pretty much yeah

[Which is...fine, really. It's about all he's used to doing.]

still
least we get a warning

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i guess that's more gracious than other things.

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not much but its something yeah

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by the way. if i said anything weird in the past few days uh

don't worry about it.

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lots of people were saying weird things.
i don't think you'd stand out much.

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it's about the vir

i didn't di

it's hard to explai

[No, no. He can't say that much. Not now. Not like this. Might screw everything up worse.]

it was rough.

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yeah.
sorry.

[Why are you apologizing, Tim. You have no reason to apologize. Oh my god.]

don't worry about it.

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you don't have to apologize.

[He tries to say it as genuinely as he can over text, but he's still drained.]

hopefully it won't be that bad again for awhile.