Twentieth Petal [audio - locked from hostiles]

[empathy_half]

Ah....

Hello everyone. I'm hoping that things have been alright with you all? At least... there hasn't been anything as [pause, picking her words here.] bad as things that have happened in the past.

What I mean is um...

Hello.

... [awkward silence before it clicks off]

Comments

[umadbear]

Oh? What sort of things have happened in the past around here?

[empathy_half]

Ah... it varies from very odd to... very horrible.

[umadbear]

Do go on. I'm still new to this...neighborhood.

[empathy_half]

Um... it is easy to find o-over the communication networks, or merely asking the locals.

[aka, Iris does not like talking about that stuff.]

[sclassedge]

...how are things going with you, Iris?

[empathy_half]

[oh... Zero.]

F... fine, things are. Fine.

[small talk and Zero don't mix]

[sclassedge]

...good.

...uh. Hm.

...uh. Floramon, as well?

[empathy_half]

Ah... she's.

... herself.

[pink_navig8r]

Things have been fine, Iris. I've... been trying to focus on work.

[empathy_half]

Just on work, Alia?

[pink_navig8r]

Not much else to do, really...

[empathy_half]

... you have friends.