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Hey, it's Pidge. Can't answer right now-- Rover quit it! --so leave a message and I'll get back to you when I can.
Rover, what did I say--?!?!

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text; evening 7/26

[shiro2hero]

I'm sorry.

Hunk's gone.



Check your pokemon. he may have lef


might have left you one

[pidge_out]

i thought you said people can't leave this place

[shiro2hero]

no they cant


not by choice

[pidge_out]

so

whatever brought us all here

can just take us back without warning

[shiro2hero]

yeah

yeah that's how it works

[pidge_out]

[There's a very... very long pause.] great

[shiro2hero]

[What should he say. What can he say. Or do. He should have tried harder. Should have listened to people who wanted to figure this place out. He never should have gotten so complacent.]

[Never should have let himself live. Like a normal person. Because normal people here didn't run the risk of losing their friends on a whim.]


i
should have listened to you

back there

[Normal people don't let their friends down this much.]

[pidge_out]

what? what're you talking about, Shiro?
you're acting like it's your fault he got sent back.

[shiro2hero]

maybe it wouldn't have happened if


we tried

[pidge_out]

what could we possibly have tried to do to stop something like that? if both our arrivals and our departures are random spontaneous events, we really can't even take preventative measures


and besides, maybe it's better this way. technically it just means that he's home now

[shiro2hero]

Right

Better he's home.

[Maybe he should leave it at that. Maybe he should consider this done. But... with someone now missing, it feels like a nagging reminder of what they should be doing, now.]

[pidge_out]

shiro

whatever guilty leader thing you're thinking right now, stop thinking it

[shiro2hero]

Who said I was thinking that kind of thing?

[pidge_out]

when are you ever NOT thinking that kind of thing

[shiro2hero]

I'm not thinking that.

[Yes he is.]

[pidge_out]

you totally are

[shiro2hero]

I'm NOT.

[pidge_out]

let's just pretend i believe you

[So you don't end up embarrassing yourself.]

[shiro2hero]

Okay then.

Good talk.