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[ 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)

Izanagi: Chatting over some app doesn't exactly feel all that comforting anyway.

🐺: If you want in person you just have to open the door

Izanagi: ?

🐺: Well assuming you're somewhere in your dorm, anyway

Izanagi: If I was in my dorm, I wouldn't be alone

[ Well, shit. And the best part is there's no hope in asking. ]

🐺: Some other part of the city where you can disappear or are you just not broadcasting anymore?

[ Because he's looked, Izzy. ]

Izanagi: I'm sure you'd love to know
Izanagi: I can go to the hotel lobby if you're really that concerned

[ gdi he doesn't want to know where your secret hideout is, he just ]

🐺: Yes
🐺: I'm really that concerned

Izanagi: Fine
Izanagi: Hang on

[ And he goes down to the lobby to wait! Braced, a little, for whatever emotions might precede Izanagi into the lobby. ]

[Casually strolling into the lobby. His emotions are a bit different by now - fairly wary with a thread of anxiety still, but also resigned and annoyed for it.]

[ ..Well, he'll take it? ]

Appreciated.