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[constellationprize]

Hi! This is ☆radia! I'm really sorry I wasn't able to answer your call... Um, if you need anything, it's fine to leave a message here! I'll answer you as soon as I can!
 

[ for phonecalls and texts ]

Comments

[constellationprize]

... I know that. That's why I can't stay out of it.

[ pat pat ]

[notadrop]

Why the fuck not? I said I'm taking care of it. He's mine to deal with, okay? So just -- fuck off, alright?

[constellationprize]

I trust you - and... um, I trust him too, but...

[ goes quiet for a bit, just stroking his hair ]

... Luci getting hurt isn't something... whether he wanted it or not, I don't know if I can endure that.

[notadrop]

Then stop him! I'll stop him? Like, he shouldn't be doing this shit either, why are you both so fucking stupid?! Why would -- why the fuck would he even decide to do this so a guy doesn't fucking look ugly, anyway?! A guy on a different fucking unit? Your husband's a fucking dipshit, Dia!

[constellationprize]

[ mumbled, a plaintive note to it ]

. . . I don't know how.

[notadrop]

Hit him. And don't stop until he fucking cries.

[constellationprize]

I can't do that. Even if I could, hurting him is what I'm trying to avoid - Ruby...

[notadrop]

So you'd rather let him keep getting hurt than stop him by just hurting him once? Fine, I'll hurt him. That should be my job anyway, right?

[constellationprize]

- Ruby, you can't do that!

[notadrop]

Are you going to stop me, Dia?

[constellationprize]

I don't think...

I don't think anyone has to get violent. I just haven't - I'm stupid, so I don't know how to explain it to him yet, but he doesn't have to get hurt... Please don't hurt him.

[notadrop]

...

Sorry.

Just tell him that like, I'm taking care of it. Jeez. There's no reason anyone else has to get involved, he doesn't even like me anyway.

[constellationprize]

[ wait

hold on a second ]

... Oh, you were talking about...

[ right. uh

a little dazed, ]

... He already... we both agreed to stop.

[notadrop]

...Wait, what were you talking about?

[constellationprize]

... I'm just worried about him...

I just want to protect him. That's all.

[notadrop]

...

You still didn't answer my question.

[constellationprize]

He's always - there was this game too, wasn't there...?

[notadrop]

This game?

[constellationprize]

What you asked me about earlier - he was trying to get someone disqualified and got hurt, and that's why he hasn't been able to talk since it ended . . .

[ lets go of his head to scrub at her face a bit ]

I'm sorry. I should talk to him about this instead, shouldn't I?

[notadrop]

We're friends, and also I'm your familiar apparently? So you can talk to me about whatever you want.

And what I meant was you never told me what you wanted.

[constellationprize]

... I'm okay. If you want to keep going then that's fine, but I don't really want or need anything...

[notadrop]

You obviously want things. You should want things. People deserve to be happy, dude.

[constellationprize]

I'm not really a person...

[notadrop]

That's not true and if you say it again I'll actually tear out your throat.

[constellationprize]

- Ruby, it...

... What do you think it means to be a person?