ic inbox [hadriel]

[unknowable]

"Please leave a message and I'll return it as soon as I'm able."

[if necessary, you can also leave a message for Ronan Lynch here]

Comments

[coheres]

No, I'm communicating with you from the otherside, Adam. [ A lilt of play, of tease. ]

It seems like I can't quite escape this place. Maybe there's a reason for it.

[unknowable]

If anyone could do it, you could.

[He probably shouldn't be glad she's back, but he is. Of course he is.]

I don't believe in fate, but whatever's bringing you back here - well, it's probably not just bad luck.

[coheres]

You give me too much credit. [ She'd like to be able to find a way to communicate across these... dimensions, to find a way to tear everything apart and put things back where they go, but that's not where her powers like to work.

Only pain and hatred give birth to the god. ]

Maybe I just don't want to leave you all.

[unknowable]

That's a flattering thought. Since we're such good company, who wouldn't want to stay here?

[It makes him laugh, a quiet and momentary thing.]

It'll be a little more bearable with you here again, anyway.

[coheres]

Anyone not mildly masochistic. [ She laughs out in response and then his next response makes her heart twitch. ]

I, uh, I'm glad. As long as it's bearable for the people I like and not the, uh, our captors and their annoying enemies.

[ Fear might be an exception. Could he be an exception? No. That's fucking funny, though. ]

[unknowable]

Things haven't been going too well for any of them lately, from what I've seen.

[Maybe that's reassuring to know? The gods have had it pretty rough, but then, so have all of them.]

Do you need any help settling back in?

[coheres]

Good. [ She'll always put her disdain up front despite her occasional showing of feeling otherwise. ]

Is settling in possible? It took me forever to last time and now... Fuck, it kind of feels like what's the point?

[unknowable]

Well, it'll make being here a little easier. As much as anything can.

[Against his will, Adam's gotten pretty settled. But it would be impossible not to, given how long he's been here and his little home with Ronan.]

Or you and Ronan could go out and smash some windows instead.

[coheres]

I hate to say it, but smashing shit sounds like a better option. They took away what helped me settle so... [ She shrugs it off. They both knew what could happen because it happened all the time. To think it couldn't, that had been complacency on her part.

Maybe complacency sets in when you settle in. ]

[unknowable]

I'm sorry about that.

[He knows there's nothing any of them can do about it. They're all at the mercy of fate, all the time.]

If there's anything I can do - well, I'll try, anyway.

[coheres]

Don't worry about it, Adam. The two of us knew it could never last.

I'll get over it. Hell, I'm already almost there. [ Liar, but, she'll get there. It wasn't ever going to last forever. Nothing ever does. ]

[unknowable]

[He's sure that knowing that didn't make it any easier, but he's also sure that saying that would be pointless. She knows it too, after all.]

I know. You're really strong. Still, even if all I can do is listen, I'm here.

[coheres]

...You're a good friend, Adam. I'm lucky you're still here.

[unknowable]

I don't know about that, but it doesn't seem like I'm going to go anywhere anytime soon.