REVERIE INBOX

[doublefried]

[ ring a bell for an echidnabird ]

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[doublefried]

Well, I was focusing on my career, so...

[tothosewhobait]

I suspected as much. That’s not a bad thing, for the record.

[doublefried]

Twenty-three isn't like, a WEIRD age to not have gotten into romance or anything.

[tothosewhobait]

Definitely not weird.

[Offers him a potato chip from the bag]

[doublefried]

[ nom ]

It wasn't like, not allowed for heroes to do it or anything. So I guess I could have been kissing people.

[tothosewhobait]

To be fair, when were you supposed to meet someone to kiss?

[Pops another chip in his mouth]

And considering how well known you are… it would be hard to know if someone was in it for the right reasons? And dating another hero sounds a bit like a nightmare as far as matching up schedules.

[doublefried]

Yeah. There was sort of a lot in the way of it.

[tothosewhobait]

And, like you said, twenty three is still very young. Somehow you seem older AND a younger than your age.

[doublefried]

Older AND younger...

[tothosewhobait]

It’s all very mysterious.

[doublefried]

I guess I basically skipped straight to adult.

[tothosewhobait]

[Presses closer, burrowing against his side]

You can afford to be a little childish here now.

[doublefried]

[ happy wing flutter ]

The big worry is if any acting silly gets back to anyone back home, but... I kind of feel like I should fake my death and go into hiding instead of going back to work actually.

[tothosewhobait]

I one hundred percent agree with that feeling. Obviously I don’t know everything, but the feeling I got was you are being grossly exploited.

[doublefried]

A little bit.

[tothosewhobait]

I would say that you should sue them, but that probably wouldn’t end well.

[doublefried]

Nooo, I'd probably be quietly murdered.

[tothosewhobait]

…you are a grown man, capable of making your own decisions, but may I humbly and strongly suggest you absolutely not go back there?

[doublefried]

I mean, honestly. If I could take this opportunity to just mysteriously vanish forever from public life. I probably would. I'm not sure I can? I don't know how being returned from this place works.

[tothosewhobait]

It should certainly be possible.

[Offers him another chip]

[doublefried]

Well, if I could have it deposit me in some foreign country somewhere I probably will.

[tothosewhobait]

I’m a little relieved then.

[doublefried]

Like, normally there's no way to quit my job, but this seems kind of like an opportunity.

[tothosewhobait]

It would be a shame to waste it.

Do you want to keep playing truth or dare or do you want to play something else?

[doublefried]

I forget whose turn it was. We can do another thing.