Tanagura IC Inbox

[rashness]

ID Number: M018171936
Email: blueboom@tanagura.gov
Housing: Apartment in Tanagura (not Eos Tower)

[ To contact Rin for email, small in person interaction, followups, whatever ]

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[rashness]

I had to come find you! Come on, Liger's stalking me this whole time, right?! Ask him! Some asshole sent me this threatening message about you!

[ He's wailing this, sitting up. He's still in his demon form, groaning as he gets up a little bit. That hurt. A lot. But he's keeping a hard gaze, and making to crawl towards the phone now. ]

[hisguardian]

[Well that sure shuts her down quickly.]

...what?

[rashness]

Some! Asshole! Texts me out of the blue!

[ He roars this, scrambling over towards the palm reader, crawling and groaning a bit as he does. He - He can smell something he's not sure is there now. It's weird, fetid. But then this is Midas, maybe someone died here. But he gets ahold of the palm reader, trying to force it despite the crack to get back to the message log ]

[hisguardian]

[The crack means it might take a little longer to navigate away from the porn that's still totally been playing this whole time, jesus, how many rounds did they go for?? But once the sounds disappear, Arietta makes her way over to Rin's side, still keeping a tentative distance from him. Not that she doesn't believe him, but...]

...did they send you that video?

[rashness]

Not that one. But another one, and then you got a tag on that site.

[ It was... a real rabbit hole tbh.

...There we go, the short text chain if it didn't delete itself or something. He thrusts the cracked palm reader at her ]

[hisguardian]

A tag...? [Arietta rarely, if ever, browses the internet on her palm reader. SO that word goes over her head.]

[But then she's looking at the screen he's showing her, eyes wide as she delicately takes the palm reader from him, his sword resting in her lap.]

[And of course, she clicks the link--]

[...]

[She doesn't even wait for it to load to the point where the collar activates before she gives it back to Rin, entirely too familiar with what would come next.]

T-Turn it off.

[rashness]

[ In a hurry, once he gets it back he does turn it off, but he hits that so hard it just cracks the screen further, and threatens to break the relatively one-screen for whole thing ... thing. He's definitely going to need to replace it.

Either way, he looks at her with a deep concern now, his one eye narrowing to focus. ]

What the fuck was that?

[hisguardian]

[She doesn't answer for a long moment, eyes staring down at the sword in her lap. But eventually, her grip on the hilt tightens and she looks back up at Rin with a sad, almost pained expression.]

...Rin. I need you to do something for me first. I... I need to finish my shift. I have two hours left.

[And she stands, holding out his sword to him.]

Can I trust you... to wait here for me?

[There's a certain sadness in her eyes that carries in her words. She's not asking him to do this -- she needs him to do it.]

[Because right now, she doesn't trust him. She can't.]

[rashness]

[ She...

He takes the sword back, but he only does that long enough to put the thing back in the scabbard at his waist. He then shoves the thing back towards her, and makes to sit cross-legged here in the corner of the street. He- ]

I won't move from this spot.

[hisguardian]

[So he understands.]

[She rests her hand over his as she takes the sword back, holding it there as she looks at him.]

[Despite how painful it is for her, being unable to trust or believe in someone who has come to mean so much to her... being the one to lose that trust must be twice as bad.]

[Especially when he still trusts her with something like this. She takes the sword and cradles it in her arms with a nod.]

...I'll be back soon.

[And in two hours...]