[Dragon Mail: Ravindra Savarna]

[assassinot]

Hey. I know everything got a little weird for a second there. I haven't heard from Missie at all, even now. So everything's really gone, I suppose.

Are you doing okay? [YOU DIDN'T GO BACK TO YOUR DUMB BOYFRIEND DID YOU she can't ask that.]

Did you ever make that list?

Do you even really need it?

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[paladont]

Not really.

It's still hard to say what I really think. I worry how people will react.

[assassinot]

How they react is their problem.

[paladont]

Not if they're reacting to me.

[assassinot]

I'm not sure I get it.

You do a thing and they react, or they do a thing and you react. Nobody has all the responsibility for how reacting goes. Right?

[paladont]

I guess not, but if they get angry then it becomes my problem.

[assassinot]

Why? Who cares if they get mad?

Unless they attack, I guess.

You're a paladin. Smite them. Make your reaction their problem.

[vati honestly believes this is helpful I'm sorry]

[paladont]

Ah... I don't think it works like that...

I get nervous when people are upset with me. [When he didn't mean to make them upset, anyway.]

[...he gets nervous around people no matter what tho]

[assassinot]

What about when you're upset with people?

[paladont]

What do you mean?

[assassinot]

When you're upset, other people don't have to be nervous. I'm not nervous. [She enjoys it sometimes tbh]

And it goes away eventually.

So it's easy to say most people are probably like that, right?

[paladont]

But I'm not nervous with you either, because I'm not worried about how you'll react.

[assassinot]

That sounds like it could be important.

[paladont]

[not sure how it possibly could be] I already know you won't hurt me if you get upset.

[assassinot]

[Gosh Ravindra this is why we have the SMITING PLAN obviously problems solved. (no vati stop)]

[oh wait]

Hurt how?

[paladont]

However.

There's a lot of ways to hurt someone when they disagree with you.

[see: lessons learned from shitty parenting]

[assassinot]

[O-oh. Now she understands.]

Not everyone's going to be like that.

[...]

He didn't really exist, did he?

[paladont]

No. He didn't.

He wasn't real, but the memories are.

[assassinot]

[... this does change some things...]

Who even thinks a person like that up?

Was it Missie? Is that how this works?

But she's so...

[paladont]

I think it was Heimdall, but if you remember him too, then Missie has some blame.

[assassinot]

That's hard to imagine.
[Then again, it's hard to imagine Missie as not somehow being a terrible secret witch ghost, too. How else would she pull this off?]

[(This is possibly by design. Heehee, being a witch ghost.)]

But they picked us, not him. [pentaps] And they made him to make us like we are?

This is stupid. They must have all the answers.

We should ask them instead. It'd be easier.

[paladont]

What do you mean, ask them?

[VATI NO DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THEY'RE TERRIBLE?!?!]

[assassinot]

[OBLIVIOUS TO YOUR ANGRY FEELINGS]

Dragon mail works, doesn't it? It's what Missie used.

[paladont]

What would you even ask them?

[assassinot]

Think about it. If they put everything together, they have to know our lives inside and out. You said you wanted to change. They could have changed us. They must know how.

Missie said she'd miss me. I bet we can use that.

They probably know who our real friends are, too. How long have you know about this? Think of all the help we could be getting! Do you think they know what's going to happen? We should ask about the future just in case.

And maybe make sure there aren't any other nasty surprises. What if I'm allergic to shell fish?

[paladont]

[VATI NO THIS IDEA IS THE DUMBEST!!!!]

But [but he hates heimdall!!!!]

You're really going to ask her?