IC Contact; thefarshore

[sleepingknight]

Yoooo! Sorry I missed you! Hey, just leave a message, okay?

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April 11 | Please feel free to text her or Kazuma after.

[dominatriarch]

[ You might be going about your business when you hear a knock on your door or your doorbell ringing. Should you go and answer it yourself, you'll find a young lady with pink hair wearing a ruffled skirt dusting herself off as she carries a package. She apologizes before offering you the package in her hands. "This is from ane-sama. She hopes you're doing well. Please share this with your household and... they both apologize for having been away so long." she says before bowing and turning to leave.

If you decide to inspect the box, you'll find a few meat buns and about three chinese finger traps. ]

April 12th

[birdstheword]

Yuuuuuuki~! Yuyuyuyuyuyuyuyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuki~!

We have a date with a ninja! It's going to be fun! Wanna come with me.

[sleepingknight]

A date with a ninja???

[Yes, she has to repeat that because it's such a weird message to receive.]

It's ok if I come too?

[Dates are usually for two people only, Hajime!]

[birdstheword]

Of course! I need you! You're super mega ultra important for this!

[sleepingknight]

[N-Need...]

Okay okay I'll go!! But why do you need me

[birdstheword]

Because it would be good for us both to learn? I can't do it without you, Yuuki.

[sleepingknight]

Learn what?

[That's the real mystery here.]

[birdstheword]

I'm not very good at fighting. And Hermes is the best ninja. He uses a sword sooooooo~

[sleepingknight]

Oh! You want to learn how to use a sword??

[Now it’s starting to make sense!]

Ok got it!! Let’s go!

[birdstheword]

What else would I mean? I told you I would remember? It'll be hard to keep up with you if I don't learn at least a little bit! I'll try my best, Yuuki!


YAYY! It'll be so much fun with you~

late night, April 15th

[sweetdeath]

hisoka's gone again. he disappeared.

i thought you should know. sorry. i know he was your friend too.

[sleepingknight]

[She'd been playing around on her phone, about ready to start shuffling through the bedtime routine when she sees the message.

...Oh.

Things seem to pause for just a moment, and everything feels a little too warm, and something in her chest is constricting a bit and it's all reminding her a lot of what it was like to lose Bo, really, except this time she's sitting in her room and getting ready to sleep instead of waking up in an unfamiliar place and immediately panicking.

She isn't panicking this time. But she still feels a pang of grief at the loss.]

Are you ok

[sweetdeath]

Not yet but I'll be okay.

[He takes the effort to make sure everything's written right this time, because it just looks more like the work of somebody who's going to be okay, later.]

Don't worry about me.

[sleepingknight]

[Well, as long as we're being honest:]

I'm worried.

Tell me if you need help with anything ok?

[It's the least she can do...]

[sweetdeath]

Okay. I'll ask.

By the way I'm sorry.

[sleepingknight]

Sorry for what?

[This being Tsuzuki, her first thought is He Did Something.]

[sweetdeath]

Making you worry.

[sleepingknight]

If you don't want me to worry make sure you take good care of yourself ok!

But don't like hide it if you aren't doing well either

[sweetdeath]

Okay. And I'll let you know if I need help, too.

[sleepingknight]

Promise?

[sweetdeath]

Promise.

[sleepingknight]

Cool!

So if you get in trouble and you don't tell me next time you come back you owe me a match!!

[This is apparently her new master plan. It seemed to work with Elsa, after all-!]

[sweetdeath]

A match with what? You mean shogi or something, right?

[If she's going to fight him that just means she's going to kick his ass really hard. He doesn't know how to use a sword or anything like that! That was Hisoka's thing.]

[sleepingknight]

Practice swords!!

We can probably go to Elsa's for it

[Or he could just try not to cause problems again and avoid this all entirely.]

[sweetdeath]

I'll be careful, promise.

[He definitely doesn't want to get beaten up with a practice sword, and that's the only way this could possibly end.]

[sleepingknight]

Good!

[…And this time, she hopes he’ll take it to heart.

The thought that Hisoka isn’t here anymore… it hurts. But surely he wouldn’t want Tsuzuki getting into trouble while he was gone – that’s why he had died, hadn’t he? Protecting Tsuzuki.

It’s the best she can manage for now, but if it will make him reconsider reckless actions even just a little…]