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un: aerith (text)

[floresco]

I think you're going to like what I've got ready for dinner tonight.

[ Though it may be grainy thanks to these terrible devices, the picture Aerith sends of herself - naked and shot so that Shaxx gets a generous view of her ass along with the naked side of her body, just enough of her breast concealed by the arm she's draped over her chest - makes it very clear what is on the menu tonight. ]

Don't be late♥

[bomblogic]

An ornately-decorated envelope will be waiting on the kitchen counter in Shaxx's apartment whenever he next returns, the envelope closed with a wax seal in the shape of a familiar crest.

Within the envelope is a pair of tickets to a theater performance and a handwritten note.

I realize you may be in no mood to hear from me yet, and if that should be the case I will respect that.

However, I wanted you to know that I do appreciate your concern for my wellbeing, even if I may not have shown it at the time. I do understand your frustration and I hope you know it was not my desire to cause that.

In some ways you know better than most how I will do something once I set my mind to it. I will not let this foreign realm change that or try to dictate what I can do. That said, it was selfish of me to not at least inform you of part of my plan and then to assume you would help me when it did not go as I expected. For that, I apologize.

I hope this small gift can be an opportunity for time spent without either of us becoming upset.

- Mara

Val-O-Gram

[silverdax]

[This beautiful drawing comes with a white carnation and a chocolate bar!]

Voice | un: guardianthief

[hereticphoenix]

Hey Shaxx, did you ever fight the Taken?

[thecrucible]

Hello, Sagira! I'm afraid my job keeps me very busy in the Tower. I haven't been out on the front lines since Twilight Gap.

[And oh, he misses it. But he has dedicated himself to the Crucible.]

[hereticphoenix]

But you know about them right? And maybe about how to fight them? And subdue them?

And possibly stop a really powerful one tearing up a city?

[thecrucible]

Oh, of course. Guns help! Or grenades. You can never have too many grenades!

[Although Sagira does not sound like she's asking a hypothetical question.]

Are you saying there are Taken in the city?

[hereticphoenix]

There is a Taken. And I don't know how it happened but it... it's bad.

text; un: phoenix

[hereticphoenix]

Did you know? About me... Sagira...

voice | un: thecrucible

[thecrucible]

[Oh, Light... Mara. Why now?

He is not doing this over text.]

Osiris. Are you at home?

[He tries to keep his tone light, but there's an unmistakable undercurrent of tension there.]

[hereticphoenix]

[He doesn't trust his voice for this, so replies with text.]

I am.

That is not an answer.

[thecrucible]

[Well, that simultaneously makes it harder to judge Osiris's current state of mind... and pretty worryingly clear.]

You stay right there. I'll be over momentarily.

[hereticphoenix]

Very well.

[It is hardly as though he has anywhere else to be. He has made tea, more to keep himself occupied than the be hospitable, and he's sitting at the table when Shaxx arrives, cup in hand.

For once, he feels every year of his age.]

audio | un: rega

[bomblogic]

I have a potential project I'd like your expertise on.

This city holds more dangers than it needs to and I can only stand idly by for so long. If we're to be stuck here for an unknown amount of time, there's no harm in directing a bit of energy and thought toward what we currently have to work with.

Where would you start, if you wanted to shore up the safety of this city?

[thecrucible]

I would start with the people. Building walls may keep an enemy out for a time, but with no one to defend them, they are ultimately meaningless.

[Metaphorical walls, of course. He's not here to build walls around Requiem and he doubts Mara is either.]