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🐺: 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)

[His message isn't read for a while.

...Until suddenly it is.]

Izanagi is typing...

Izanagi: You're still on about that?
Izanagi: Didn't I say I had better things to do?

[ Snorts softly. ]

🐺: And I made it pretty clear I'd track you down if I had to

Izanagi: You're the one who let me go in the first place.
Izanagi: I'm fine. Like I said, I can handle myself.

[ It's so great, how much that first text sounds like an accusation. Lupine stares at it for a few seconds, then sighs softly. ]

🐺: I was never letting you go
🐺: Just giving you enough distance that I'd stop feeling everything you were feeling
🐺: I know privacy's a joke around here but I wanted to do the best I could

Izanagi is typing...

Izanagi: Well, I'm safe
Izanagi: And I'm keeping myself busy. So I won't be checking the phone all the time.

[ Types out, You know the thing coming off you strongest when you left was loneliness right? — and then deletes it. Slides down the wall, next to sIV's buzzer, to sit on the floor. ]

🐺: Sorry still not going anywhere
🐺: But we could play a game or something
🐺: We've got apps on these things
🐺: Or maybe a party standard
🐺: 20 questions

Izanagi is typing...

...

Izanagi is typing...

Izanagi: What are you hoping to achieve with this?

🐺: Same thing I said I wanted when I sent the first text

[ If he thought you were curled up with a friend right now, he'd leave you to it. But no one should be alone when they're feeling what you were feeling earlier. ]

Edited 2022-01-13 22:14 (UTC)

Izanagi: Do you think something's going to happen just because I'm alone?

[ Beat. Just, staring at that text. ]

🐺: I think you're going to be alone
🐺: Sometimes that's bad enough all by itself

Izanagi is typing...

Izanagi: I think I can survive being alone for a while.

[ Another pause. Reading that over. He shuts his eyes. ]

🐺: People survive all kinds of shitty things they shouldn't have to

Edited 2022-01-14 06:57 (UTC)