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[dicey]

Hey, this is Vriska! I'm ignoring my PCD right now. Leave me a message and if I like you enough, I'll get back to you!

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[dicey]

[...]

Maybe we could meet.

[combatking]

Where?

[dicey]

Near Ta Prohm.

[combatking]

Alright, I will be out there soon.

[dicey]

[she'll be sitting on a rock when he arrives, arms around her knees]

[combatking]

[It doesn't take him too long to get there, and for once he hasn't done up his hair horn. He's warily looking for those telltale tracks from invisible hounds, but only because he is pretty sure they don't trust him a bit. The parcel is an old box he found at some point or another.

Seeing her, Zell waves and gives a quick smile.] Yo.

[dicey]

[Vriska's on her own for now; the hellhound is inside. A coconut crab may be wandering over, though.]

... Hey.

[combatking]

[The sight of the coconut crab brings him a moment of amusement as he remembers her attempt at teaching them to mobilize. He holds out the parcel.]

Broughtcha this.

[dicey]

Thanks.

[she reaches out to take it]

Sorry I've been... you know.

[combatking]

Welcome.

[Inside she will find the requested goods and a macaroni picture of them in a field]

Out of touch with society?

[dicey]

Yeah.

You're probably pissed at me, huh.

[combatking]

I'd be pissed if it wasn't for the reason behind it. Not to mention it was a doube blow. I'm just kinda disappointed 'cause y'don't really trust me to understand stuff.

[dicey]

It's not that I don't trust you.

[combatking]

Oh. [And for a moment he's silent.] Well what it is then.

[dicey]

What the hell do you think it is? Pitch and Hanna both left!

[combatking]

Yea! I know that part! But then you just disappeared from everything! [Which really wasn't unheard of, but the concept of feeling alone and then going to lengths to BE alone was fuzzy to Zell.]

[dicey]

And you didn't think those two things were connected? God!

[combatking]

I knew they were. [His shoulders lower in disbelief. At times he wondered how stupid she thought he was. Other times he wondered how much he really understood at all.] Just... I dunno!

[dicey]

Then I don't get why you don't get why I disappeared.

[combatking]

'Cause everyone else is still here! [Well that came out wrong.] They weren't the only ones who give a shit about you.

[dicey]

Maybe they were the only ones I gave a shit about.

[Which isn't true, but.]

[combatking]

[A spreading pain runs through his chest and he's unable to keep the look of hurt off his face.] Ouch. Thanks. That's fuckin' great to know. [For a moment he just stands there in a mild shock.]

You know what, I'll see ya later. Or never. Whatever works for you. [Dropping the package, he starts walking off.]

[dicey]

-- You're a fucking dick! You know I didn't mean it!

[But not meaning it is exactly why she shouldn't have said it, and deep down she knows that.]

Maybe I just want to be alone!

[combatking]

[He stops, turning to shout back.] Half the time I don't know what you actually mean an' are just slinging anymore!

[Zell's hand shoots to graze his eye. Probably dirt or something.]

Yea I know y'do! You sure as hell proved it over the last few months! I get the mourning period, but there's a point when you gotta pick yourself up!

[dicey]

Who says I'm not picked up?! You think just because I'm not hanging around being all buddy-buddy with the whole city, I'm just lying in bed all day or something?