07 || [Video; Locked from Chromedome]

[flashdrive]

[The Link kicks on, to show Rewind in his quarters, sorting out some datapads he'd found in Trion's library. His shoulders are pretty slumped, and he carries a certain fatigue about him. Something very unlike the bouncy little flashdrive.  But there's a reason for this broadcast, as he turns to it.  This isn't an easy thing for Rewind to come out on the feed and say, so bear with him.]

Has anyone seen Chromedome as of late? He's hardly in the temple, at least to my knowledge and...


I worry what he's been up to.

[It was a bit shameful to admit, not trusting your Conjunx Endura. But this was a bit more personal than he'd like to admit.]


It's like ever since I told him to break his needles he's been...distant. He won't tell me anything, either. Just...'busy'.


{OOC to CD: Despite it being video, it's totally okay for Chromedome to walk in on this}

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[flashdrive]

...

[His voice softens at that, at that last part.]

Heh, it always is, after everything.

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[thxforthememories]

Do you... not believe me?

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[flashdrive]

No no, I do!

It just...makes me think of how things always seem to resolve themselves, even if it doesn't seem like it.



You know?

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[thxforthememories]

I...

[He quiets for a little while. And when he speaks again, there's a little smile -- one that may be audible.]

... I didn't believe that. Not since I came here. Nothing ever seemed to work out all right for me. Or the others I care about.

But...

I think it might actually be true.

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[flashdrive]

[He hears that smile, and there's almost one heard in his tone too. And he doesn't even have a mouth.]

You only notice it when you look back on it.

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[thxforthememories]

Or... when someone says the right things...

[Like "I'm proud of you".]

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[flashdrive]

[A bit confused at first, it doesn't take long for Rewind to piece things together.]

That too.


Couldn't do it without you, Kagerou.

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[thxforthememories]

I should be the one to say that to you, instead.