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[potentialman]

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[sorte]

Be careful.

[potentialman]

I will.

[ He doesn't say it out loud, but there is absolutely a tinge of "I'm not the one getting bullied by moose" coming through if you squint. ]

[sorte]

[ that moose was so unreasonable with him, ugh!!

and aventurine doesn't miss it, wow, the tether makes sure of it.

small gasp over here. ]

You don't know that won't happen. One of them could have eaten that fragment, then what?

[potentialman]

Then I wouldn't settle for just scaring it away.

[ A beat. ]

...so it better not have. [ He does not want to hurt moose. :( ]

[sorte]

[ maybe it'll poop it out if they wait long enough idk.

Aventurine shudders at the thought of that moose. ]

Things of that size shouldn't be able to climb walls ...

Speaking of animals, there's a many-headed lion at the hotel now that likes to hang out in the lobby. You should come see them.

[potentialman]

A lion?

[ Well. He does like animals, but -- ]

It's...behaving itself?

[sorte]

It is. It looks like one of the individuals staying at the hotel is able to keep it at ease maybe with abilities from here? I don't want to say he's tamed it, but it seems like he's managed to communicate with it somehow? He can't actually get the lion to do anything other than what it wants to do, but it's very calm.

[potentialman]

Huh.

Maybe I'll come by.

[sorte]

If you're in the neighborhood, by all means.

[potentialman]

You remember you're pretty much on the opposite end of Manhattan from me, right?

[sorte]

Yeah, but a lion is worth it. Me, too.

[potentialman]

[ Aventurine, have you ever considered being less...

...less? ]

[sorte]

[ less is a banned word in his dictionary. ]

[potentialman]

[ WELL

he'll think about it? Maybe when he makes the hike to loot the Japanese grocery stores in Bryant Park, which is

still only halfway to the hotel, huh. ]

[sorte]

[ it's only like 2.5 hours walk if you walk at a leisurely pace and you're from a shonen series, which means halfway is less than an hour and fifteen minutes, piece of cake!! ]

You can sleepover? It'll be fun.

[ lol. ]

[potentialman]

[ This definitely sounds like how you speedrun getting Toji peering ominously through your windows at night. ]

At some point, fine. I can't just drop everything and walk out the door now, though.

[sorte]

[ isn't he already doing that to megumi, although maybe not the ominously part beyond being a freak peering in windows. Aventurine legit assumes Toji is already on campus with him. ]

I wasn't thinking you would, but now I'm curious what's so important that you couldn't. What're you up to?

[potentialman]

[ I mean, probably? But still. ]

I just need to be sure everyone's settled in. Yuji's probably fine, but I don't want to disappear on Mafuyu-san before she's got her footing.

[ When it was just him, it was easy to fuck off whenever he felt like it, but now people may actually worry! Or need things. ]

[sorte]

[ gasssppp ]

You have cute roomie friends now!!

[potentialman]

Yes?

[ Your point being? ]

[sorte]

I knew you could do it. Now you won't be so lonely!

[potentialman]

I was fine.

[sorte]

No one is fine over two months alone in the dark, weirdo.

way to foreshadow his canon update....

[potentialman]

I was fine.

oof ...

[sorte]

Huh! There's some kind of weird echo in our connection, I feel like.