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[valdecet]

[ Oh hey, it's video-- but it might as well be voice since all the camera's focusing on is plantlife in a small garden. From behind the camera comes Angeal's voice and it's normal enough, if... a bit flat and closed off. Dull. ]

Unfortunately, I won't be able to take care of my plants for a while. If anyone with some sort of experience in gardening

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[i_love_squats]

Hey, don't worry about it! Happens to the best of us, right? Time and life and everything...

Just means you need to make it up to me.

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[valdecet]

Glad you understand, Zack. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it up to you for a while, though. I have to go away for about a week, sort some things out.

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[i_love_squats]

A week's nothing! I'll be waiting right here for you, don't you worry. And after, we'll have all sorts of fun, right?

[There's a pause, momentary, before he says quietly....]

You know, if you wanna talk...

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[valdecet]

We will. Until then, you take care while I'm gone, all right? Nothing reckless.

We'll have a talk after I return, I think.

By the way, I've left something important with Kunsel. A-just-in-case sort of thing. Wanted to tell you myself, but didn't get a good chance to do so.

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[i_love_squats]

Me? Reckless? C'mon! Think of who you're talking to! [Yeah. Seriously. Think.]

I've got two really good ears, just waiting for you. All yours, man.

What kind of thing?

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[valdecet]

I'm thinking of him all the time, so he'd better keep those two ears and sound.

... It's a document, effectively detailing what is to be done with my belongings in case of an event where I cannot do so myself.

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[i_love_squats]

I think he can manage. You know, considering you're thinking of him. It'd be rude otherwise, right? And you trained him better than that.

[Pause.]

...like a Will?

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[valdecet]

Well, if you think he can, that's good enough for me.

And... yes. A will. I've named you the executor of it.

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[i_love_squats]

[Well, that stopped everything cold, didn't it? He felt himself go pale, white and cold, and the rest of the conversation was lost to this...]

Why? Why didn't you tell me? Why do you need a Will? Why do you need an executor? Why...what's going on?

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[valdecet]

Nothing's going on, Zack, don't worry. Like I said, it's a just-in-case kind of thing, nothing more. But last time I was here, I... well, I can't be that irresponsible again. I'm telling you now only because if anything happens to me while I'm gone, you should know that it's there.

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[i_love_squats]

...I guess... [But he still doesn't like it, not at all. It makes him nervous, makes him scared, makes him wonder.] What does it say?

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[valdecet]

With any luck, you won't have to know for a long time. Unless you want to know right now, of course.

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[i_love_squats]

... you mean "ever", don't you? I won't ever have to know?

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[valdecet]

Of course, that's what I meant. I'll be seeing you in a few days, Zack. Promise me you won't worry or come looking for me?

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[i_love_squats]

Yeah. Yeah, I promise. But if it's more than that, I'm coming! You hear me?

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[valdecet]

Good. If it's more than that, I'll send you a message myself. But no matter what you hear or think you see, I don't want you coming after me. You or Kunsel or anyone else. I need to do this for myself.