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[vandalization]

[ So it looks like Vandal is making this call while traveling back to the medbay from the bar after the Calling ended. Her helmet is on and her voice is filtered through her modulator, but there is a tremble to it. ]

I just found First Aid.

He's dead.

I don't know how. I just found his body off the edge of this outcropping.

I can't fucking stand this place.



[ooc: with permission from First Aid's player!]

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[sword_redemption]

I'll be there.

Don't apologize. It was First Aid. He was... [...nice.]

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[vandalization]

Thank you.

He. Last thing he said to me was "I love you". Was my friend. He was so nice.

Why would anyone do this?

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

[He's rolling up to her coordinates, arriving fast. ]

Vandal. [Ouch.] He deserved it least of anyone here.

[He stays in his car mode, popping open a door.] Some people are evil, Vandal. We'll find who did this. We'll stop them.

[ action]

[vandalization]

[ She pulls off her helmet and climbs in, instantly balling up. Looks like maybe she's been crying. ]

Don't you die on me too.

I'm so tired of seeing my friends die.

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

[He closes the door behind her.]

Not planning on it.

Same goes for you, too, though. No dying on me.

[ action]

[vandalization]

I'm hard to kill. Like a cockroach.

Can I please stay with you and Wing tonight?

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

Me too. One day I'll have to tell you the stories.

....of course you can.

[ action]

[vandalization]

I'd like that. If you did.

Thanks.

Let's go. I can't stand being here anymore.

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

It's only fair. There's just....a few million years to catch up on. Some of it not very nice.

[He will cure your insomnia?]

All right. [He starts moving forward.] Stopping by your place first?

[ action]

[vandalization]

I have nothing but time now.

Yeah. Wanna pick up my comforter. Thanks.

[And nest in it.]

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[sword_redemption]

You'll think a lot worse of me afterwards.

[But that's justice, right?]

[That's...yeah. So he guesses that gift went over well.] Right. Be there in a klik.

[ action]

[vandalization]

Doubt it.

[Just gonna mash her face into your seat now thanks.]

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

[He rolls to a slow stop outside her trailer. ]

Do you...want to talk about it?

[ action]

[vandalization]

About First Aid? Or being arms-deep in my friends for the past few days?

[ She shivers. ]

Sorry. I'm. Snappish. Stressed. Real bad. I'll be right back.

[ She scoots to collect her things from her house before emerging and piling back into his passenger side.]

I dunno. Not yet really. Not much to say other than it's been hell.

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

About...yeah. Nothing. Sorry.

[He knows he's no good at this so he'll just sit quietly while she piles her stuff in the seat.]

[ action]

[vandalization]

I'm. I'm sorry. Fuck I just don't know. You didn't deserve that. I just-

Yeah. Let's uh. Let's go.

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

No, it's all right. I just don't know what you need right now.

[He'll roll toward the first bridge to Vector's palace.]

[ action]

[vandalization]

Heh. Women, right?

[ Not a joke he'll get. Oops. ]

Ah. Honestly this is going to sound fucking stupid but I really want someone to just hold me for a while.

[ Excuse her, having a weak moment. ]

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

...if you say so? [He has no clue. But he knows he has no clue so that counts, maybe.]

It doesn't sound stupid. At all. Sometimes it's good just to know you're not alone.

[ action]

[vandalization]

Yeah... it is.

[ More and more she finds she needs it lately. ]

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

...if there's anything I can do?

[ action]

[vandalization]

Just you, Drift. You and Wing.

[ action]

[sword_redemption]

Whatever I--we--can do, just ask.

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[vandalization]

I will when I think of something.