[E-mail: Lera, Ezra, Rhys, Harriet, Gabe]

[inchesofevil]

[early Sunday, post-merge]

You guys are going to find out sooner or later so I might as well tell you myself.

I'm the Vahishta, as of yesterday.

So I guess welcome to the club, self.

Comments

[firecracker_hopping]

Don't worry about it. If a crisis comes up, one of us will tell you. You have some time.

Make sure to get rest and eat meals. It gets easy to get overwhelmed right now. Don't hesitate to ask one of us for help. I'll be in the city for a couple of more weeks, while we mop up the rest of Aerveas's forces. I imagine Gabe and Rhys will, too. And Ezra lives here, of course.

[...huh, weird.]

Sure. I'll avoid bringing it up when I go by the apartment to see her.

[It must have been upsetting. Her parents and younger brothers freaked out a little bit.]

[inchesofevil]

Thanks.

Yeah, I'll try. [not very hard.]

She's staying with Nadir for a while, so don't freak out if you don't find her at the apartment.

[firecracker_hopping]

Ohhhhhhh.

They moved faster than I expected.

[inchesofevil]

. . .


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I DON'T THINK I CAN TYPE ENOUGH DOTS TO PROPERLY EXPRESS MY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW.

MISSIE AND NADIR? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!

[firecracker_hopping]

WAIT

MAYBE IT DIDN'T

DON'T MENTION ANYTHING

[inchesofevil]

She's staying with him because she's blind and needs someone to look after her!

...omg is that why she asked for it to be Nadir

[firecracker_hopping]

...what?

[inchesofevil]

She asked to stay with Nadir because she likes him!

Why did it have to be Nadir? I can't be an overprotective big brother if it's him, he intimidates the shit out of me!

[firecracker_hopping]

No, no, I mean--well, okay, maybe, yes. Nadir is intimidating and scary. If you do the disapproving older brother thing, it may not work. He is huge and mostly muscle and likes to stab things.

Missie is blind?

[inchesofevil]

Oh.

[oh, right.]

[that.]

Nova.

I had to resurrect her.

I was kind of rushed, I guess I fucked something up.

[firecracker_hopping]

Oh, God.

I'm sorry, Duncan.

[inchesofevil]

Don't give me your sympathy, she's the one who needs it.

[firecracker_hopping]

...yeah. I'll go see her ASAP.

[inchesofevil]

Do me a favour and set her up with some vision impaired software when you do?

[firecracker_hopping]

Yeah, of course. I can do that. I showed Morvarid how to use it.

[And Missie is way less scary than Morvarid! ...wait.]

Uh. Is it damage to her eyes? Harriet's making an artificial eye for Ezra already.

[WAIT, TIME TO E-MAIL MORVARID]

[inchesofevil]

I have no idea what it is, honestly.

I think I left her vision in the Dark. She thought she was still there at first, and

Well, let's just say there's a gargantuan, immediately noticeable difference between the Dark and the dark. If she had even the tiniest bit of light sensitivity, she would have been able to tell.

[firecracker_hopping]

Yeah... Let's wait before we mention to her, then. It sounds like it might not work and I don't want to give her false hope.

I can only imagine, from everything I heard about the Dark.

[And she doesn't want to, thank you very much. Besides, this might mean her very threadbare faith was... wrong. Disturbing stuff that she would rather worry about when they don't have an epidemic and remnant forces to mop up.]

[inchesofevil]

Hey.

Morvarid's been blind for a while, yeah?

Do you think she might be willing to give Missie some guidance on living that way...?



And I'm not just asking because I have the biggest fanboy crush on Morvarid and would be stoked to have her making my sister's acquaintance.

[firecracker_hopping]

Hey... that's a great idea. I'll write her and ask.

She can also do this Zatoichi badass thing so she might be able to teach Missie the basics of self-defense.


And of course you're not. Do you want to meet her?

[inchesofevil]

HA HA WHAT NO THAT'S OKAY I'M FINE

Maybe later. Like, when I'm not suffering from sleep dep. Giggly and manic is a bad first impression.

[inchesofevil]

WAIT I JUST NOTICED THE PART WHERE YOU SAID HARRIET WAS MAKING AN ARTIFICIAL EYE FOR EZRA

WHAT

EZRA LOST AN EYE?!

[firecracker_hopping]

[Takes her a bit to see this.]

Oh, yeah... we fought Aerveas and Mezzron (yes, like the god).

He didn't lose an eye, but he got a sword to the face and it went across his eye. The damage was pretty severe...

[inchesofevil]

Okay I'll try not to stare at it when I see him then.

Damn, hell of a story to go with that battlescar.

[firecracker_hopping]

Tell me about it.

It feels weird that we won, to be honest.

[inchesofevil]

Hey, at least beating Mezzron in a fight is more likely to impress him than piss him off.