... You'd just headed off for work not too long ago.
[ "The Rise and Fall of Asamando," "Be a Big Shot: How to Stop Holding Yourself Back and Cut Your Strings", and ... honestly, why are some of these books next to each other? ]
Of course, then you stopped back by, like you forgot something.
[ Careful, careful. It's not what Ludger actually said, of course, but saying something like that comes dangerously close to saying that your resolve was...
Well. As the proctor of that particular exam, he supposes any deficiency would be on him, wouldn't it. ]
The way I remember it, I was a dead man walking anyway. Wasn't I?
If you look at it from that angle, the right choice was obvious.
I'll bet, after all of what she's been through. But that's good to hear.
[ If she's really going to be fine, then maybe everything was worth it, somehow. Elle surviving implies they caught up to Bisley in time ... implies they might have done something, at the Gates of Judgment. ]
Why don't we go with 'shared mass hallucination.' Considering that it sounds like I very much shouldn't be here, from your perspective, and I'd ... really rather you weren't wherever it is I ended up anyway.
H-hey, can you blame me? It's convenient and easy to eat up in the department offices.
[ Savor a delicious home cooked meal with one hand while wrangling the fallout of a bad code push someone pushed into prod when they really shouldn't have with the other! ]
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[ "The Rise and Fall of Asamando," "Be a Big Shot: How to Stop Holding Yourself Back and Cut Your Strings", and ... honestly, why are some of these books next to each other? ]
Of course, then you stopped back by, like you forgot something.
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[ ... ]
I'm sorry I couldn't choose you too.
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[ Careful, careful. It's not what Ludger actually said, of course, but saying something like that comes dangerously close to saying that your resolve was...
Well. As the proctor of that particular exam, he supposes any deficiency would be on him, wouldn't it. ]
The way I remember it, I was a dead man walking anyway. Wasn't I?
If you look at it from that angle, the right choice was obvious.
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... Do you have to say it like that?
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... I figured it would make it easier for you.
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[ maybe it's all terrible and Ludger just feels bad, and only time will heal that! ]
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[ Well. Here they are, now. Having a conversation that wasn't ever supposed to happen. ]
... How's Elle doing?
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... She's okay. Well- she will be okay. She just... needs time.
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[ If she's really going to be fine, then maybe everything was worth it, somehow. Elle surviving implies they caught up to Bisley in time ... implies they might have done something, at the Gates of Judgment. ]
... So. What now?
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[ they're here, they're (presumably) itemless and broke, they're trying to get a bunch of mannequins to trust them. ]
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It's that simple, is it.
[ Not necessarily. If this is like a fractured dimension then it'll end, sooner rather than later.
But for now... a soft laugh. ]
All right. "Things"— sure, that's one way to put it.
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Do you have a better way to describe it? Kidnapping? Mass hallucination?
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[ why are you like this ]
Just because you are here doesn't mean I'm unhappy to see you. It's just- unexpected.
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Forgive me if I don't find it particularly reassuring that we're somehow in the same place after you've apparently already killed me.
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I just wish we knew if this meant something. But I guess we're all in the dark.
[ looks back 3 weeks later, lol. lmao. ]
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[ hunger, grief — in a different context, it'd almost be like wanting, yearning.
but also lmaos from 3 weeks later ]
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[ though speaking of hunger... Ludger's stomach grumbles a bit. ]
... Do you want anything for dinner?
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[ and if Ludger uses this opportunity to make an eggplant dish, bro, why,,,,,,, ]
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Says the guy who asked for the same lunch for a month.
[ but Ludger waves a hand in acknowledgement and heads off. Julius gets to have......................... stew later. ]
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[ Savor a delicious home cooked meal with one hand while wrangling the fallout of a bad code push someone pushed into prod when they really shouldn't have with the other! ]