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[loyalraven]

[Gilbert is in Oz's room. And there's a frantic sort shaking to the video feed as it turns on. This is probably because Gilbert's hands are shaking. Significantly shaking. And he can't quite seem to stop them.] Oz.

Oz if you can hear this, you need to answer me. You need to answer me now. Please... please answer me...

[His voice is more than a

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[bloodiedchain]

...gone!?

[This is Alice, who's pretty much torn between being pissed off at being left behind, denial that he's left and depressed that he was willing enough to leave her behind.]

...dammit, seaweed head, this isn't the time to be joking around...!

[loyalraven]

[Sorry, Alice. This isn't Gilbert at his most forgiving. It is him at his most frantic though.] Why... why would I joke about this?!

[bloodiedchain]

B-because you're the seaweed head! It wouldn't be that much of a stretch--

[And she rushes off to chek his room, until...]

...it's empty.

[loyalraven]

[Gilbert frowns.] I know. They... they sent him home. The things he came with are gone.

[Gilbert knows. Gilbert has been a bad servant and stolen something small that Oz came with, a handkerchief maybe, just to keep tracks, since that's how this city seems to work when people are released from it.]

[Video]

[tsunray]

[He watches his elder sibling. Part of him is shocked at how rattled the other seems to be and the other part is a bit of a mix between caring and annoyance.]

Jeez, get a hold of yourself. You're acting like that twerp leaving is the end of the world.

[Video]

[loyalraven]

[Gilbert's a bit startled by the voice, enough to look to the screen in confusion.]

He's gone. [He says it in confusion, as though he's certain Elliot must not have heard. But that's not right. It's the consequences of Oz being gone.] Gone again. [But not lost this time, not trapped in the Abyss. Home. This is what Gilbert keeps telling himself anyway.] And I couldn't...

[Video]

[tsunray]

[Why are you looking at him like that Gil? ;; fff

But of course it only proves to make Elliot more angry; seeing Gil is so upset over him.]

... You couldn't what? Save him? Protect him? So he's gone, big deal.

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[loyalraven]

[Gilbert realizes how this must look to his younger sibling, how weak he's acting right now. But part of him wonders if that just isn't who he is. Why bother pretending otherwise?]

...I promised to. And I couldn't keep that promise. I couldn't keep it again. [A pause.] It's... he's home. He has to be.

[Speaking of, he frowns slightly.] I wish you'd stayed here. It's not safe here right now, Elliot. ["Are you all right? Will you come stay here?" Questions he's not sure he has any right to ask.]