ǂ 009 -- still better (phone/action)

[teh_sword]

[Someone's still a little confused now and then where his memory blanks out. He's also most irritated than he's been in a while.So can we go outside? If inside's not safe and outside's not safe and-- I mean, can we all just bolt until we've seen that our friends are safe and then-- go hide in the woods or something

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[perfektsymmetry]

[Hey that is not a good way to end a phone call right now!]

Ren? Ren!!

[If you don't answer, in like 5-10 minutes he's coming to look for you.]

[teh_sword]

[Intellectually Ren knows people come back here. Still, the fact that Crowe died even just for a little while was fairly rough on this kid. So it might not be five or ten minutes, but there's definitely some stunned silence on this end of not quite being able to process the voice.]

[perfektsymmetry]

[Crowe curses under his breath. He really doesn't want to go out there, but he'd do it for Ren. Dare to answer before he hangs up?]

[teh_sword]

[No no no no no no going out and being stupidly at risk, Crowe, that is the opposite of what Ren wants to happen. There's a slightly shaky intake of breath before the stammering starts, soft and worried.]

C... C-Calleo...? Where...

[perfektsymmetry]

[He breathes a sigh of relief.] Oh thank God. Ren, you scared me there for a tic, the way you cut off...

Yeah, it's me. I'm, ah, at home. A-are you...? [It's hard to ask someone if they were alright in this current state of the town. Most people aren't.]

[teh_sword]

No, I'm... I-I'm fine, Calleo. Just... shaky.

...you don't live that far away, right?

[perfektsymmetry]

Ha, yeah, we all are...

I-I'm only over on Williams, but... Ren, we really shouldn't leave the house. It's... it's gotten a whole lot worse out there, yeah? There's more of them.

[teh_sword]

Yeah. Guess so.

It's just... [It's just he doesn't fully believe that his friend is okay and it's super hard not to hear the voice and want to be allowed to hug.]

[perfektsymmetry]

...I-I know. There's just... not much we can do at this point. Either someone hands that poor man over, o-or....

[teh_sword]

...but if you're somewhere safe, why can't I...

[perfektsymmetry]

I-I don't know if any place is safe right now. They've already checked my house, s-so maybe they won't come back here....

I-I just don't want to see what happen to me happen to you, too.

[teh_sword]

[That gets complete silence. Probably not even so much breathing. Just strained unhappy quiet.]

[perfektsymmetry]

Ren...

A-are you at your house? I might... be able to sneak past them....

[teh_sword]

...it'd be safer if I came there.

[perfektsymmetry]

[...since when.]

N-no, I mean... trust me, going unseen is about the only thing I'm any good at.

[teh_sword]

[There's another silence. Because that's a fair point. But also if anything happens to Crowe again, because of him? Unforgivable.

There's a few false starts, but no real actual response.]