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[...at first, the feed is only audio. Pidgeys are chirping in the background, welcoming the dawn, and you can hear another odd sound...flowing water, maybe?
All of a sudden, however, these peaceful morning sounds are interuptted by the shrill cries of one very distressed Furret.]
F-fuuurr! Furr furret!
Wha...Lady? [Guess who sounds...incredibly ( Read more... )
... Phoenix?
You're in Goldenrod?
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[He's too weirded out and exhausted to remember that Goldenrod is where Heather is...]
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Oh.
[She sounds oddly... distant.]
... Where are you?
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About a block away from the Center, I think. Why do yo-- [....OOOOH THAT'S RIGHT HEATHER IS IN GOLDENROD TOO--
--but then his look turns concerned and he adds;] D-Don't feel like you have to come out and meet me or anything. Especially if you're not feeling up to it.
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Shut up. This is a city and you'll probably get mugged and die unless someone protects you.
[... OKAY, HEATHER. OKAY.]
[She sounds... a lot more frazzled and a lot LESS coherent than normal. And for good reason-- her brain is absolutely fried right now. So Phoenix can feel free to WTF at that response. It's not something she would normally say without a heavy dose of sarcasm, but she sounds... surprisingly serious and dry.]
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Heather, I've lived in Los Angeles for all my life. I think I'll be fine.
...either way. Where are you? I can just meet you halfway...
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No. You'll die.
Stay RIGHT THERE.
... I'm at the hotel.
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...right. The hotel. I'll meet you halfway.
[Phoenix Wright: Stubborn As All Hell.]
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[But... is she really in any position to stop him? No.]
[SO... MEETING HALFWAY IT IS, THEN. The hotel is the really tall building a few blocks away from the Department Store.]
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And well, Heather, he will be heading in that direction, so when you see the bundled-up spikey thing with a writhing mass of assorted Pokémon bounding around his feet, you've found your man!]
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[She does spot him, though, and speeds up.]
THERE you are. You're not dead. Okay, good.
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Er...really, I'm not the one I think you should be worrying about? [He gives her a worried look. He SAID you didn't have to meet him...
...all in all, though, he just sort of takes a moment to remember that this is actually the first time he's SPOKEN to Heather face-to-face. Because that "incident" in Violet did not count in the slightest. It's...it's kind of a weird feeling, really, considering how much of a friend he considers her to be, and all of the clusterfuck fiascos they're waded through more or less together. (But not really. He's just being mentally melodramatic, ignore him.)
Eventually, though? He smiles. And considering how totally exhausted and downright bewildered he is, Heather, that's quite a feat.]
Either way, though, uh...it's good to see you.
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[When she reaches him, she pauses with a hand on one knee, catching her breath. She's obviously in... a bit of a state. ... But who could blame her? That.... losing-three-days thing is weirding EVERYBODY out and it's obvious she hasn't slept since she woke up.]
[She does straighten up though, with a deep sigh as she scrubs messier-than-normal-even hair out of her face.]
Snnggkkh... I, uh.... yeah. Hi.
[... And then she pauses. It... was just hitting her all at once how incredibly awkward this was-- for the same reasons Phoenix had inwardly described. Last time she'd seen him in person, she'd clobbered him black and blue. And now, after all the accidental soul-baring and general calamity...]
... Nice to see you too.
[She suddenly kind of looks like a kid who just realized they walked into the wrong classroom.]
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And, well...with an awkward neck rub and a glance to the side, he makes it obvious that you're not the only awkward one here, Heather!]
...you didn't run all the way here, did you?
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Uh-- well, no.
I kind of... uh, weaved.
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