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...Yeah. It, uh. Overlapped with the memory you just took.

And now you're giving me an out?

[ALARM BELLS CONTINUING TO RING]

I wanted to let you know, so that you could — get back to your dorm, or to the outskirts of the city, which...ever works better for you.

[ The pounding alarm in his head could give him a headache if it kept up. ]

Thank you so much for your consideration.

[Just gonna get up to go. The anxiety doesn't seem to be anywhere close to calming.]

[ What's really cool about this is that approaching you gave him some anxiety of his own, so there's a real party going in his adrenal glands. ]

—Sorry. I know this has to be the last thing you wanted today.

Edited 2022-01-11 07:43 (UTC)

[He doesn't even deign to answer, anxiety mixing with other lovely feelings as he goes - loneliness, self-loathing, general mortification, the fun stuff.]

[ Well, every single part of that was the worst, and it's actively a relief as Izanagi starts to get some distance, but those sure are some parting-shot emotions, and after a moment of arguing with himself irritably, Lupine takes out his damn phone to text. ]

🐺: I'm not asking you to stay in range of me
🐺: But I don't think you should be alone right now

[ He stared at that second text for a few long seconds before hitting 'send'. This is gonna land like a lead balloon. ]

[Apparently he takes his time finding somewhere else to hang out before he responds. But eventually:]

Izanagi is typing...

...

Izanagi is typing...

Izanagi: You don't think I can handle myself?

[ He didn't say that and he's not gonna dignify it with a response. ]

🐺: Hey
🐺: Thanks for replying
🐺: Saves me the awkward of having to fly around the city until I start feeling like crap again

Izanagi: Are you turning into a helicopter parent?

🐺: The universe can hear you say stuff like that you know
🐺: If one of my next memories is about the kid I had when I was seventeen I'm blaming you

Izanagi: And then you stumbled through parenthood disastrously but still managed to be a heartwarming example of familial love ☆

🐺: Wow my life sounds like a sitcom
🐺: Do I have to give up on the basketball dreams to be there for them?

Izanagi: Of course.
Izanagi: But it's okay because you get to show the kid that their old man's still got it once they're old enough to play

🐺: At the ripe old age of like 32

Izanagi: You know it
Izanagi: Anyway
Izanagi: Thanks for the distraction attempt, but I have better things to do
Izanagi: Later

🐺: Yeah?
🐺: Text me a selfie first

[ If you're back at your dorm, or otherwise not completely alone, he'll let it go. At least for now. ] [ But combing the city for you from the air was not an idle threat. ]

Edited 2022-01-11 09:38 (UTC)

[No response. It doesn't even get marked as read.]

[ Yeah, that's real cute. Ugh. But he said he'd do it, and he's going to do it, so. Time to just fly over Tokyo-F for a while, looking for more projected feelings.

On a bet, he tries further away from the hotel first. ]

[No stray badfeels to be found!]

[ Super not giving up that quick! Lupine will easily devote the next half hour to just skimming rooftops, looking for badfeels, hoping maybe he's wrong and maybe this is ridiculous and unnecessary; hoping he'll find Izanagi in a cluster of other people also projecting feelings, or just that the feelings he hits on will be neutral if not positive by the time he gets there.

Hoping, but. Not really with a whole lot of faith. ]

[He doesn't seem to be anywhere outside at least - there's no minty green hair or projected feelings coming off him to be found.]

[ Did he actually go back to the hotel?? That would almost be the last place he looked, despite himself. ]

[Fushigi mystery. He's not in any of the common hotel areas though.]

[ Well, having looked everywhere else, he's going to assume one of sIVs rooms is doing a dimensional pocket thing, the way the night garden does, and that Izanagi's too deep inside the hotel to be felt from outside it, so have a knock at your front door.

And another text. ]

🐺: We don't have to actually talk
🐺: I just want to know you're [ a long, long pause, during which you'll definitely get an is typing notification ] as safe as we get

Edited 2022-01-13 21:05 (UTC)