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[allgotrabies]

Hey, it's Annie, you know what to do.

Comments

[credere]

To...cats. I guess.

[allgotrabies]

I'm more of a dog person, [snirk] but I'd take the worst cat over almost all the people back home. Maybe cats deserve a nice hand more.

Uh, by the way, I checked up on your. Uhm. Your friend, Shiro.

[credere]

Oh.

I haven't really - I mean, not since -

Is she okay?

[allgotrabies]

She seems like she's having a tough time. [she puts this carefully, tactfully] And she said she'd probably be dangerous to someone like me so I didn't go see her in person, just told her she could call me if she needed.

I was kind of hoping you'd talked to her, 'cause I haven't heard from her or seen her on the network.

[credere]

I'm - I'm going to. Soon. Today, I - I will.

I...miss her.

[Strange feeling.]

[allgotrabies]

[She was really hoping he'd respond that way.]

I think she'd really like that. [Hopefully. Annie doesn't know Shiro at all, but the girl seems lonely, and Credence has very little to fear from anyone.

She lights up a cigarette, feeling better about Credence but no less alone, no less like she has her back to a wall. Smoking staves off loneliness, grief, trauma.
If Credence ever hits a serious snag in his progress,
she'll introduce him to a Kool and tell him about its powers as a personal therapist.

And then Alec might kill her, so that's a last resort.]

Let me know how it goes, huh?

[credere]

Yes. I will.

...I'm sorry I changed my mind.

I do want to, I'm just...there's too many things that might go wrong.

[allgotrabies]

It's not off the table. I mean on my end. If there's ever a way to do it that feels safer to you and you wanted it, I'm still around.

[credere]

I...

I'll remember that.

Thank you, Annie. You're...a good friend.