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[blowfish]

"Yo, there's no beep on this thing."

[ VOICE, VIDEO, ACTION ]

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[blowfish]

[ We call those ones freaks. Freaks and weirdoes. Jesse picks at a loose thread on his tattered hoodie while he listens, carefully.

Wait, wait. ] You knew one of the people who got hurt.

[ That's his guess, anyway. He doesn't know much about her relationships outside of Lucrezia. ]

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[matre]

I know one of the men who perished, [ she corrects him without any heat. ]

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[blowfish]

[ People die only to come back like it never happened. It's a hell of a trip. Jesse frowns. ]

You okay? You get to talk to him yet?

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[matre]

[ day before joel comes back so — ]

I have mastered many skills, Master Jesse. Speaking to the dead is not one.

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[blowfish]

[ An audible sigh, shaky. How long is this supposed to take? What if they don't come back? Fuck. ]

They say everyone comes back, eventually, but kinda difficult to believe until you see it. [ Pause. ] And it doesn't make them bein' gone much easier. Sorry.

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[matre]

You are sweet to worry. But I am not a stranger to loss.

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[blowfish]

Yeah, same here. Honestly, the weird part is watching them pop back up again.

[ His phrasing, per usual, is not the neatest, but the sentiment is sadly genuine. ]

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[matre]

It is perverse.

[ the entire place, in fact. the poets would laugh. a riddle: what haven is not? ]