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[foreverphantom]

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week 1, friday

[selfimmolation]

[ well he is not actively seeking dante out but considering his ass is restlessly wandering all over he probably runs into him ... what is dante up to... is he eating glass ]

[foreverphantom]

[ i wish

but no. he is throwing cans of soda onto the runway from the flight deck ]

[selfimmolation]

[ well he was coming here to brood because this is the only outside we've got once more but. pausing and staring for a second before approaching ]

She didn't deserve that.

[ he can guess it's more about vi based on the little interaction he saw ]

[foreverphantom]

[ he stiffens when someone else shows up to his weird little activity, but forces himself to relax after a moment. ]

'Deserving' has never meant anything.

[selfimmolation]

No, it hasn't. But the world being unfair doesn't mean you can't acknowledge when it is.

She was hurt.

[foreverphantom]

And he was still down an arm.

Pretty pragmatic choices, if you ask me.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah.

Hard to tell if it really was on purpose, though. I don't know how much Boothill chose his target.

[ is it possession is it people going for the prizes who can SAY ]

[foreverphantom]

Maybe these killers did. They certainly have incentive.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah. A whole pile of it. [ it was. so many incentives. ] Can't exactly narrow it down to who's most likely to go for it when there's so many.

[foreverphantom]

I'd say narrow it down by whoever is small and weak enough to have to resort to killing the injured, but. That would just implicate me.

...I wasn't involved, for the record. With either of the murders.

[selfimmolation]

[ there's a pause because he is not exactly the kind to just take dante at his word but he'll at least give him this; ]

I don't think they'd who you'd have picked if you were in your right mind.

[foreverphantom]

...th...anks? I think?

[selfimmolation]

I'm not going to pretend I think you're above lying to my face. [ but he sort of believes him in this case. unless he is possessed but like that's exhausting whatever. ] But I wasn't worried it was you this time.

[foreverphantom]

...right.

I'll take what I can get, I suppose.

[selfimmolation]

[ you sure will!!! ]

That means I'm counting on you to help solve it, you know.

[foreverphantom]

I was already planning to.

[selfimmolation]

[ well! this was as far as his olive branch extended admitting he trusts dante with helping he's moving on ]

She said you guys talked.

[foreverphantom]

I mean...yeah?

[selfimmolation]

[ hands dante another soda can ]

Never mind. Go ahead and throw stuff.

[foreverphantom]

...

[ picks up another can and does the shake-and-hurl routine. but he looks back to ace. ]

What did she say we talked about?

[selfimmolation]

[ shrugs as he watches it go ]

She didn't really say. But she seemed to like you well enough.

[foreverphantom]

...huh.

Yeah, she was...probably the easiest person for me to get along with here.

[selfimmolation]

Doesn't surprise me. She was pretty easy to talk to.

[foreverphantom]

Yeah. Even for a jerk like me.

[selfimmolation]

[ thinks it over for .5 seconds. flicks his ear ]

We both know it's not your attitude I've got a problem with. [ so fucking dry. ]