[Dragonmail: Ravindra]

[transfer_student]

Ravindra!

What are you avoiding Reilanin for? Shouldn't you thank her for freeing Iravati? You are both being very weird.

(I almost forgot to ask you so maybe it's all sorted out now; if so never mind)

-Nova

Comments

[paladont]

Yes.

And I've already heard from everyone else how selfish and awful I am to ask it so I don't need to hear it from you too.

[transfer_student]

Who is everyone? Alex?

Ravindra! ...Did Alex leave you for Reilanin?

[paladont]

[................... DID


HE

?!]

No, he [omggg he can't even say that with certainty though, furiously/hopelessly scribbled out]

Maybe he always liked her better [omg cryyyy]

[why are you bringing up terrible possibilities he never even considered before?!?!?!]

[transfer_student]

Never mind, never mind. It's okay, Ravindra.

You aren't terrible because you asked. If it was too terrible to do, it would have been better for her to refuse.

[paladont]

[BUT IT'S NOT OKAY NOVA]

[HIS JEALOUSY OVER IT WAS MAYBE TOTALLY JUSTIFIED?!?!]

But no one is mad at her about it.

[transfer_student]

Well, just because she should have refused doesn't mean she wronged anybody. It just means it isn't fair of her to blame you for making her do it. That doesn't mean asking wasn't a mistake, though. But it was an extreme situation!

Honestly it sounds like it all got very out of hand...

[paladont]

[uuugh all he can read here is that it was a mistake to ask, stop pointing this out to him nova]

Alex said she felt forced to do it because she didn't want me to leave.

[transfer_student]

Would you have left if she didn't do it?

Wait, left who or what?

...At the beginning, were all three of you together romantically? This is important for me to know if I'm going to sort out your life, Ravindra.

[paladont]

No! It was me and Alex. And then Alex and Rei too but it's new for them to be this close

Left her, I think? I wouldn't have. We're like a family Or we were.

I don't understand why if she didn't want me to leave she won't talk to me now.

[transfer_student]

[Sc-scandalous! And a little adorable.]

I don't understand either. Maybe I could ask her?

If she thought you would leave when you never would have at all, it sounds like everyone would feel better if she knew that. Which won't happen as long as she's not talking to you, but I don't mind telling her...

[paladont]

Ah

Could you?

I want to talk to her but I promised Alex I'd wait

[transfer_student]

I'd be glad to!

No sense letting a player break up a happy family.

(In case you were wondering, it is Missie's fault)

[paladont]

Of course it's Missie's fault! [OMG SO WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP BLAMING HIM???]

[Nova you are a pretty cool guy, thanks for being on his side about this WHEN ALL HIS OTHER FRIENDS HATE HIM]

[(ravi that is not even a little bit true)]

Have you talked to her? She's so annoying! I can't believe she made Iravati!

No, a lie, I can believe it because Iravati is annoying too

But that's different

[transfer_student]

I have talked to her. She is very... hard to understand.

[Actually he kinda enjoys her but way wrong audience for his increasingly mixed feelings on players!]

It sounds like she refused to talk in her own voice when she was caught, which was just the stupidest. Sometimes I thought she believed she really 'became' Iravati when she used her voice... or something like that.

Or maybe she just thought that if we were stupid enough to think she believed it, no one could blame her.

[paladont]

Yes I know what you mean. It was terrible and now Vati hates Alex because Missie wouldn't stop speaking as her after she got caught and Alex got angry about it

And then she forced me to explain players to her while she was controlling her like I was too stupid to know she already knew

It's ridiculous! I'm glad she's gone now.

[transfer_student]

Hm, and I believed her all along that she really meant to keep from hurting you too much.

I guess in the end it was just her excuse to keep playing her game.

[paladont]

All players do is lie anyway.

You know the Spenta is a player? I punched him when I found out

I had to pretend to regret it but secretly I don't.

[paladont]

Don't tell anyone I said that.

[transfer_student]

You told me before when you were trying to decide whether or not to leave the guild.

Good for you, punching him.

I won't tell.

[Wait he can't tell anyone?]

[paladont]

Oh, I forgot.

I didn't leave.

[transfer_student]

Well, that would explain why I'm not supposed to tell that you don't regret it.

[paladont]

Yes, exactly.

Maybe I regret it a little. But not as much as I think I'm supposed to

[transfer_student]

You can regret it whatever amount you like, Ravindra.

No regret at all is always the most comfortable, of course.

[paladont]

[........NOVA THAT'S SO WISE]

[...the first part not the second part]

But I always feel guilty if I don't regret the right amount.

[transfer_student]

Who are you responsible to with this regret accounting?

Why don't you get to decide how much to feel? It's your emotions.