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[edelstein]

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[skinstitch]

i mean, i like cards and tag. hide and seek. i mostly trained and played computer games, anyway.
younger sister? you seem like an older sister type.

i like those too. never have i ever. two truths and a lie. easy stuff. maybe strip or dare?

multiple rounds of shot roulette would be fun. i leave it in your capable hands.

[edelstein]

Yeah, younger sister. She was around for a bit, but I think she might be a statue now.

Knowing some of us in the group "Truth or Strip" might be the more compelling spin on things. Ration your clothing carefully or you'll be naked and can only answer the truth for the rest of the game.

[skinstitch]

( sudden conversation swerve, after reading that. )

want me to get her for you? her statue, i mean.

[edelstein]

We're allowed to move them?

[skinstitch]

turns out some idiots moved some of them.
think it was back when everyone swapped shit.
guess when you're a high rank, anything fucking goes.

[edelstein]

If that's the case, then yes. If I find her and you're able to have her moved somewhere like my suite then I'll repay you back in kind. Whatever that may mean to you.

[skinstitch]

yeah, i know a guy who can help real easy.
just let me know if you find her.

don't have to repay me anything big. we'll negotiate.

[edelstein]

Do you want to speak terms now, or after? I know she isn't around anymore. I went to find her on her birthday, and her suite had been replaced, and I cannot contact her on the watch.

It's only a matter of time.

[skinstitch]

i was just gonna ask that you tell someone out there how you honestly feel about them. whoever. someone where you have good feelings, at least.

does it upset you, that she's not here? well, not here here.

[edelstein]

I find it absurd that I'm honest with you about my sister and you're acting like I need to be cracked like an egg.

If I can get her in a spot where I can monitor her then maybe her being stone isn't exactly terrible. Less chance for someone to hurt or manipulate her. Less surveillance I have to keep to make sure no one upsets her. Less I have to worry about her snapping and killing off or consuming a bunch of people.

[skinstitch]

damn, sounds like you got me, sister version.

what's wrong with being cracked like an egg? i wanna eat the inside, not the shell.

[edelstein]

Opposite of you, maybe. Typically she's a doormat. Over-polite, and shy. Though I wouldn't be surprised if you had a few things in common outside of that.

Not asking for a more tangible form of repayment is what's so weird.

[skinstitch]

i'm a weird guy. i don't need a lot.

[edelstein]

If someone has depended on you for something they might also want to be depended on in turn.

[skinstitch]

what are you willing to do?

[edelstein]

Anything comparable to the effort it would take to get that statue moved. I can't match you in rank privileges, but I could make you something. Steal something. Get information for you. I'm not sure how much the debt will be.

[skinstitch]

information might be good. or maybe just giving me some advice.
we'll figure it out when the time comes. fine by me.

[edelstein]

Right.

[A very long pause, and then that's followed up with:]





Thank you.

[skinstitch]

don't mention it, bestie.

( a pause for him, too, trying to decide. )

my dad was here. i have his statue in my suite.
that's kinda how i know about this stuff.

[edelstein]

Father?

[Holy shit. She legitimately did a spit-take.]

I have no idea what I would do if my father showed up. That must have been something else.

[skinstitch]

yeah. kinda went fucking insane over it.
don't know if it's better or worse now.
can't kill him, but i guess no one else can either.
just another shitty impasse this place forces on me.

[edelstein]

["If my dad showed up, I'd rather die instead" is what first comes to her mind, but she curbs it. Not because she's unwilling to share, but because she doesn't want to overshadow the conversation with her own family's bullshit more than she already has.

And despite the way she'd go to the grave insisting her father was a good man, she knows better than to assume everyone has it the same. There will be no, "but you're family," coming from her. Not after what she's been through with her legal guardian. Not after what she saw Zouken did to Sakura.]

May I ask why you want to kill him?

[skinstitch]

( considering for a moment: )

he's the reason i'm like this. he's the reason for everything. reap what you sow.
the world should be rid of a false hero like him, and a reject experiment like me.

[edelstein]

He did that to you, and has the nerve to consider himself a hero!?

[skinstitch]

the world considers him a hero. he's the number one right now.