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un: strife

[coraza]

where are you?

[supersoldier]

Settling in.

[Concise, unspecific. Not very helpful, maybe, given the context of their last meeting.]

What do you need?

[coraza]

we agreed on something.

[before you punched him on the nose, but—]

where?

[supersoldier]

Does that agreement still apply?

[It seems like a stint of emotion got in the way.]

You make it difficult.

[“Where” is ignored for now.]

[coraza]

it was your idea. we have a common goal even with our differences.

["differences" is an understatement, but he's brushing past it.]

have you worked out synchronizing?

[don't die before i kill you]

[supersoldier]

A truce is pointless if you continue to make an effort to frustrate me. How is your nose?

I know how it works.

[coraza]

healed.

[will cloud ever have the wherewithal to admit to having gotten overwhelmed with his own frustration, with his own weaknesses pooling around him? no. not ever; especially not to sephiroth.]

[time for the good old reflecting.]

you make it difficult too.
i can find you, you know.

[supersoldier]

I’m not trying to. I would prefer to work together, but without the constant threat of accusation that you hang over my head.

The effort runs both ways, Strife.

I don’t need you to find me.

[Case in point: address attached. A townhouse, and Sephiroth is the only resident.]

[coraza]

[he's trying.]

i'm heading over.

un: marth (Text adventures part 1)

[dualstriker]

Sephirothidontknowwherethespacebaris

[supersoldier]

[??

Oh boy.

...]

It’s the elongated one. At the bottom of the letters.

[dualstriker]

Idontseeifcouldyoubemorespecific

I found it!

And while I was looking for it I learned how to make a little face with typing!

[supersoldier]

[He’s not sure how she could miss it, honestly, given it’s far more prominent than the rest— But Sephiroth is patient, at least in his own way, and she manages to come around to figuring it out.]

And you’re going to show me, aren’t you?

[dualstriker]

Yes!

"}+

I'm finally getting the hang of this!

[supersoldier]

[??

Sephiroth actually takes a moment to try to figure out what he's seeing; it's not unreasonable to think he simply isn't up to date on the emoji or emote front, but he's having trouble parsing this one all the same.]

I thought it was supposed to be a face?

[dualstriker]

[How rude!
...Or did she do it wrong? ]

It is a winking face...
Is it not?

[supersoldier]

[No...? No. He is ninety percent certain that is not a winking face.]

No. It looks nothing like a winking face. You should use a semi-colon instead.

[text] - wing things

[hishonor]

[Well, this is something hard to word. Because hell, even if he wasn't disorientated, pained, and still losing a lot of blood, he wouldn't exactly know how to word anything like this.

And... yeah. He's all of the above.
So this is kind of awkward.]

I might need an assist.
Actually

I'm fairly sure I need one.

[supersoldier]

[A text like this from Angeal is vaguely worrying by default—a SOLDIER 1st Class rarely finds themselves in a situation that they cannot handle on their own—and Sephiroth’s reply is immediate and concise:]

Where are you? What's happened?

[Details.]

[hishonor]

At the building I'm staying in.
I think I underestimated how weak we are here.

[supersoldier]

[The only reason that there's a delay now is because Sephiroth needs a moment to head directly out the door; Angeal isn't doing a great job of not sounding foreboding, and dependent on the next reply, he'll judge whether or not there will be a need to inform anyone else.]

You're hurt, then. How badly?

[hishonor]

Lost some blood.
Tried to stop the bleeding, but passed out. It's still going, and I can't stop it.

If you get here and I'm out again, don't take me to the hospital, alright?
Promise me. I don't want anyone to know about us.

[supersoldier]

I'll do what I can to avoid it. But the logistics are less important than seeing to your injury.

[Is is not losing another friend. Again.]

Stay awake. Keep texting me. Did someone do this to you?

[hishonor]

[He'd reiterate no hospitals, because surely, even with the amount of freaks from different worlds GemSci would have seen here already, nothing would come close to them. But each time he tries words autocorrect can't cobble together for him, he comes up short.

...So that's going to have to be incentive to not pass out again.]

It was me.
Tried to stop changing. Big mistake.
Not my finest moment, I know.

Sorry about this.

[supersoldier]

Don't apologize.

[Sorting the pieces all in his head with the efficacy of a military-minded utilitarian, there is only one real (and simplest) solution for now:]

I will be there as soon as possible.

[But Zack might be closer. A pause interrupts the communique, with Sephiroth sending a message to another certain SOLDIER 1st Class. And then-]

I have healing magic as a Sapphire. We will tend to you and everything will be fine. Just remain conscious.