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[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

Who: DelPavo + anyone
Where: DelPavo
When: Day 276, evening, post-plotting
What:

[Whatever locks the Geardorm has on its main doors have now been very securely locked. And then re-locked, just to be sure.

A cranky tiny is scrutinizing them as if he's seriously considering adding more.]

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[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Reaches for his sleeve again, the light tug silently asking him to come back close.]

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[...follows the tug again, after a moment]

Are you okay?

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

Before you pulled back . . . just for a moment, the way you sounded . . . it was like you were scared.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[Shaking his head...]

Don't be silly. I'm not afraid of you, Feathers.

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

You never have been before.

What happened?

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

It's nothing important enough for you to trouble yourself over.

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

Tide . . .

There's a lot of things you can say if you don't want me to ask. And I'll listen—I will. But saying that it's not important like that . . . everything about you is important to me. No matter how big or how small it might be.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[But why 8(]

It's not that I don't want to tell you... I just don't want you to be troubled.

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Because you are a partner-teammate and deserve to be loved. Duh.]

Tide sounds like Poofy now.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[...so you're telling me I sound like a sad sadthing...]

Ah...I hadn't meant to...

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

It's okay to trouble me. I think . . . it's really part of being teammates. To be there in the good times, and to be able to lean on each other during the bad times, too.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[Ughh you completely dismantle my ability to bluff]

I...met Mirror, briefly. I was just reminded of that time for a moment, that's all.

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Mirror . . . ]

What did she do?

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

She didn't take me to her realm or anything like that! So it's fine...

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

If it's something that made hugs from me not okay, it's not fine at all!

What did she do?

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[Hff...taking one of her hands]

...she reminded me not to forget who I am. That's all.

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Holding his hand back, grip anything but loose.]

How did she remind you?

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

She did...something with my head. Triggered something, I don't really know. It's nothing that has lingering effects.

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

. . . your eyes didn't go gold, did they?

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

I don't...think so? ...More red, maybe?

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

Tide too . . .

[jiiiii]

Maybe red is Delphinus's colour . . .

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

Ah...um. What?

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

There's a lot of people on Pavo she could affect that way. Delphinus, too . . . almost everyone like that has eyes that change.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

Everyone "like that"?

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

When Tide said, "Remind you of who you are" . . . part of that 'who' is really 'what', isn't it?