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[potentialman]

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[hallowedly]

Thank you. And you're all right, are you? Otherwise?


( Safe from the way of whatever harm befalls teenagers with as many death wishes as acne scars? )

[potentialman]

[ What an awkward question to get now. ]

Yeah, I'm okay.

[ ...because what the fuck else is he even gonna say. ]

[hallowedly]

Ah? How fortunate. An increasing rarity, these days.

[potentialman]

You sound surprised.

[ -- which would in fact be completely fair given how the month started, but never mind that. ]

[hallowedly]

...we've hardly been wanting for misfortunes.

[potentialman]

[ But are you sure that's not just disappointment that more of them didn't visit him, in particular? ]

That's true.

[hallowedly]

You sound so much like him, now and then. It's in the silences.

[potentialman]

[ ...hm. ]

Who?

[hallowedly]

The young man I'm supposed to appease. He also sounds as if he thinks his elders are juvenile.

[potentialman]

He might have good reason for that.

[hallowedly]

That's certainly distrustful.

[potentialman]

Stranger danger, as you already said.