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@eugene.hicks

[preseance]

During World War II, four paratroopers each from England, Scotland, France and the US, were on a plane about to jump when they realized there was only one serviceable parachute.

The French paratrooper downed a glass of cognac, said "Pour la France!" and jumped without the parachute.

The American downed a glass of bourbon, said "For freedom!" and jumped without the parachute.

The Scotsman downed a glass of whiskey, said "For Scotland!" and threw the Englishman.

@kyna.medina

[evocation]

so the moral of this story is that the scottish are the only smart ones, right?
have you seen english food?
he was right

[preseance]

Hey, now, my Ma was English and her food was just fine, thank you kindly.

[evocation]

so you eat spotted dick?

[preseance]

（ it's a good thing this is text, because she cannot see the way he chokes on his goddamn tea. ）

A delicacy, I will have you know.

[evocation]

gene
the jokes i could make right now are limitless

[preseance]

We don't appreciate that manner of clownery where I'm from, Kyna.

[evocation]

bullshit
you were a soldier
it's like, required
you can try to trick me with that cute southern gentleman thing all you want

[preseance]

I ain't even been a soldier in years, maybe the good graces of the uncorrupted citizenry's gone and rubbed off on me.

But I do appreciate that you think I'm cute. :p

[evocation]

are you flirting with me gene?
and yeah, you're totally uncorrupted now

[preseance]

Could be.

（ you give a man ten years an' a whole other life as a serial dater an' maybe he learns a thing or two about a thing or two. ）

I'm pure as the driven snow, thank you.

[evocation]

yeah right
if we're talking about nyc snow, maybe

[preseance]

I've lived long enough in New York to be offended by that.

[evocation]

good
anyway
you're super charming and your accent is adorable
but are you okay?
seriously

[preseance]

Yeah. Had a pretty easy time of it in the Aerie, all things considered.

Could've been a lot worse.

Are you okay?

[evocation]

uh
to be honest
not really
wait
are you doing that thing where you ask me how i'm doing so you don't have to talk about how you're doing?

[preseance]

Kyna, I'm a man that went to war being able to see and speak to the dead. If you think I'm all that rattled by seeing folks kill each other in Gladiatorial combat you've got another thing coming. I won't deny I'm a little on edge because I reckon ain't a one of us ain't about living a whole other life — but if not for the fact I wouldn't give my brothers up for anything, life was actually better for me in the Aerie.

Now, you wanna talk about it?

[evocation]

oh
okay
um, sure
i mean, if you're sure

[Eloquence.]

[preseance]

Wouldn't have asked if I wasn't, K. We ain't got much else but ourselves when it comes to holding each other up outta the mud.

[evocation]

yeah
i know
i'm not used to seeing so many people dying
so it's hard to shake

[preseance]

I'd say that's more good than bad, honestly.

（ which sounds hypocritical comin' from him, so after a moment his expression twists an' he shakes his head to continue — ）

For me, I've talked to the dead since I was knee high to a grasshopper. It's part of my life, but it meant that death never held no great mystery for me, and no especial fear. But other folks don't have that foreknowledge, and death — it ought to be something you don't get desensitized to. It should hurt every time. It's when you get too used to it you ought to worry.

So don't give yourself a hard time about it, yeah? Everyone is going to need space to grieve and come to terms with everything that happened. Hell, there ain't exactly a precedent in psychology for what we're doing here, literally experiencing death and then walking away from it with near as no repercussions except in the mind. Folks are sometimes tempted to forget it's a critical organ too, with its own species of hurt.

[evocation]

i'm trying not to give myself a hard time about it
i just don't know what to do with it
and i had to kill someone too, and
i don't know
i'm worried about everyone coming back but i don't know how to work though this shit myself either
sorry
i'm just totally unloading on you
i guess i'm just sick of getting fucked with, and it's been happening a lot lately

[preseance]

Hey, I asked. It's all right.

What else's been going on?

[evocation]

you mean before this?
the riverstone shit, and that time a bunch of us got kidnapped
we keep getting forced into these impossible situations

[preseance]

If they were impossible they wouldn't happen.

All we can do is deal with them once we're in the thick of it.

I think you're doing all right, everything considered. Lord knows it's a lot.