♠ SOME GHOSTS SINK, SOME GET CALLED TO THE LIGHT → { fourteen }

[medeating]

[VOICE | PUBLIC | JAPANESE]

[there's a hiss of static as she turns her comm on - this is familiar, isn't it, this is...]

Hn. My sketches are gone.

[She's already gone to visit her old room - vacant, even after her absence - unsure how to take this old feeling sinking back into her. Could she have been gone long? There's no way for her to tell -

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[pursuestruth]

Chidori-san? [He hasn't heard that voice in a long time. But he recognizes that tone of voice immediately.]

[pursuestruth]

You came back.

[medeating]

That's what I said. [blunt as usual, but there's almost an amused tone in her voice.] How long was I gone for?

[pursuestruth]

Almost two months, though you still seem the same as when you left.

Do you remember us?

[medeating]

Two months...? Tch. They really are fickle.

Yes, I do. [pause; and then she addresses that one other part.] I didn't have somewhere to return.

[pursuestruth]

Mm. Some things don't change.

I'm glad. We all missed you, Chidori-san. [Though he's not sure what she means by that next part. And likely she wouldn't talk about it right now, right when she came back. He avoids the question for now in favor of:] Do you still know your way around?

[medeating]

[she opens her mouth and closes it, even though he can't see it - 'we all missed you.' Was that true? It seemed so... strange, somehow. But so much had happened when she had been here the first time. She doesn't resist that, not quite.]

Did you...? [but her reaction is still awkward, still forced - she drops it quickly, though not after a lingering silence.] Mm. I found my apartment. But they've emptied it, it seems.

[pursuestruth]

Of course! [Now he sounds amused.] I see. Do you need anything? We have some extra sheets and supplies that we could spare.

[medeating]

Mm. Maybe. I'll let you know. [...] Thanks.