IC Inbox for Asgard Genesis

[lethechained]

Hello. Thank you for calling, and I'm sorry I wasn't here to answer.

[Pause.]

--Leave a message, please, if you want to.

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[skittering]

❰ it's obvious, in so many ways. ways that lalli can feel in his gut and his lungs and his throat and the nerves behind his eyes. ways that he doesn't know how to explain. ❱

he just doesn't

[lethechained]

[ She isn't inclined to question it; Lalli would know better than she would, wouldn't he? By virtue of being more familiar with Emil, if not for having actually been in his presence. But for her, it's hard to imagine feeling that way - she'd have wanted to talk to him the moment she came back from the dead. ]

What about you?
Do you want to talk to him?

[skittering]

dunno anymore

❰ sorry, namine. this is just... a mess that he shouldn't have dragged you into. ❱

[lethechained]

[ Oh, dear. While she doesn't really believe that this would end their friendship, it's a bad place for both the boys to be in - though perhaps she has more faith in such relationships after having seen so many strong bonds in her life. (Nevermind that they always belonged to other people.) Whether it's her mess or not, she's in it now, and it's unconscionable to her to do anything but try to help however she can. So she points out, ]

You'll have to talk eventually.

[ She hopes. ]

Right?
Even if it's hard for both of you, you can't ignore each other forever.

[ Which. Isn't so much her telling him to do something about it as making a prediction, honestly. But that's not really a solution, so she tries, ]

Maybe it would help to think about what you'd say to him if the two of you did want to talk.
That way you can at least be sure how you feel.

[ Even if how Emil's feeling is a bit harder to determine. ]

[skittering]

maybe that's what he wants

❰ but he's said it too late, after other things have been said, so he'll clarify: ❱

to ignore each other forever

[lethechained]

[ Even without the clarification, the message makes her pause. It sounds like an insecurity talking, and yet at the same time Naminé knows all too well that without being more familiar with their relationship, she oughtn't really be assuming anything. But somehow it doesn't feel quite right to accept that fear as the reality of the situation, either.

Maybe Sora's finally rubbing off on her. ]

He's your friend.

[ Which could be taken a lot of different ways, really. Does that mean she doubts Emil would reject him so readily, or that Lalli would know better than she would what's likely? Both are true, honestly. But either way, ]

Do you really believe that's the kind of person he is?

[ It's one thing to say it to yourself in your head, but entirely another to put it into words on the outside. On a certain level, to do so is to impugn the other's character. ]

sorry so late. i want to hit her up on something more recently to remedy this disaster thread

[skittering]

wasn't. but he's different now

AHH NO WORRIES I gotchu bruh. Just tell me where you want shenanigans and I shall make it happen.

[lethechained]

[ Keenly aware though she is that Lalli's the one who ought to know his friend better, it still seems... wrong, somehow, to make such an assumption. ]

People do change sometimes
especially when something awful happens to them.

But I'm not sure he'd change that much so quickly.
Haven't you been friends for a pretty long time now?

[ As long as she's known Lalli, at the very least, and probably longer if they're from the same world. While that's not quite so great a time period in the grand scheme of things as it could be, she figures that at least-- ]

He must know by now that you wouldn't have hurt him if you didn't think you had to.

[ Which would be enough for her not to blame Lalli, at least, if she were in Emil's position - and that's what makes it so hard for her to imagine that he wouldn't want anything to do with Lalli at all even after such an incident. ]