Repose

[locked to patrick g]

Hey. How are you?

[locked to mary m]

Tell me how the trees are doing, Mary.

[locked to 'blath' (anonymously)]

Hi.

[locked to misha b]

Hey. I wanted to thank you again. I was going to thank Damian, too, but you said he's out of town?

[locked to reece e]

Hi Reece.

[eta: cat c]

I decided to go through with it.

[Locked to "Muerte"]
Hey. Cat said she yelled at you or something and something was going on with you being addicted to Eddie?

[Locked to Stephanie M]
Hey, man.

[Locked to Eddie N]
Cat had to unexpectedly leave town because Helena got attacked by a growling thing in New Jersey. Jsyk.

[Text to Reece E]
[After this.]

Hypothetically, if something big and growling is after Helena, and the possibility exists of going to help her, even with the knowledge that she is absolutely going to lose her shit if I show up, because I'm male and terrifying, should I still go? Is going the most selfish thing on the planet? Am I doing it for me and not for her? In this hypothetical scenario, someone capable, and who she isn't frightened of, is already planning on going.

P.S. I think I just fucked Em up. Help.

Opinion poll time:

How rare is too rare?
For a burger.
Or a steak.
Or... I don't know, meat in general?

[Posted anonymously]

Dad? I feel like my head is caving in

Minutes to hours to days to weeks and they all slip by unnoticed

Am I even me, still?

Or is this all some dream?

Dreaming isn't so bad. It saves me from fighting with you.

Because-

Hush little baby, don't say a word.

Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbi-

I don't want a mockingbird!

I want things to go back to normal!

I want you he-

And if that mockingbird won't si-

NO.

STOP.

JUST. STOP.

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[Text to Reece]
[Out. After Jack and Adrian, the morning after the carnival, and while the pond is being installed.]

We're going to house a potentially homicidal entity of dark magical energy. Also I hate men. All men. All British men. Old British men of the ginger variety that bleed on doorsteps and can't duck flying books.

[Locked to Hannah S]
Geez, I'm sorry about just rolling out last night.

[Still drunk.]

[Locked to Destiny S]
DESTINY

[Delivered to Cat C shortly after the debacle in the bar.]

[Public]

So. Things you didn' t know existed before you movedto Repose. Necromancy. Let's start with that one Didn't know that existed, didnt know the dead could come back.

[Locked to Hannah S]
Hey, Hannah, uh, are you busy?

[lock to hannah s (anon]

What kind of day are you having?

[public (anon)]

Say you're visited by three spirits on some ordinary night, and you get to see your worst regrets, what all your friends think of you, and the worst version of your future, ending in your death. What happens next? Do you turn it around and buy the Christmas turkey, the one as big as you, lad? Or is it too much for someone who isn't a character in a story to see the worst of the past, the present, and the future?

[Locked to Reece E]

So.

[Locked to Reece E]
[During this.]

My brother's here. Don't worry. I lied to this one myself and it worked.

[Public]

So social gatherings in town. They look rough. Are they rough? Are they usually people who don't know each other? This isn't weird if you live here, is it?

I was going to throw something, to get to know the neighbors but I don't want to give them PTSD. There has to be some way of getting to know people here that isn't bingo, the ladies at the rec center look like they would take an eye out if you got in between them and their numbers.

[Fam]

[She writes it, timed to post when normal people are asleep]

so good news bad news, i got into this art program out of state where they don't need like a ged to let you in or whatever and i found out the girl i was with at the place from before is dead, so. it's kind of like the universe doing its thing. i'm bailing, i guess and i don't want the super awkward stuff so you can write me [email address] but not here. i figured one last town thing was kind of the goodbye party. i love you and i'll visit maybe when i'm on a break and not super poor.

[Minis]

[Not a forum post. She sends the latest thing learned in a tin to the last address she has, and the note is on sketchpad-paper, folded in half on top of the cake, with an email address for contact.]

i hate goodbyes so it's not a goodbye? thank you for the lessons, i'm way better at not burning stuff to shit now. not-goodbye, H]

[Martins]

[They get a proper card, sent through the mail like a normal human. In it, there's a longer snippet from the course that she's going on, a program of classes and she's scrawled on it 'thank you for believing i could do it'. Inside, it's a giant, hand-illuminated 'thank you' and not a lot else, apart from email address.]

[Clary House: past and present]

so hey, thanks for being awesome people to live with. i'm kind of leaving town, which i figured i should probably say but Destiny, i paid rent through April and you shouldn't have any problem with getting someone cool to live here, it's a really nice place.

[And after all the above, forum posts bounce-back.]

Hours. Days.

I blinked and it's been a week.

[locked to reece e.]

How'd you do with these books?

[locked to eddie n.]

Hey. You okay? I didn't see you check in with Damian yet.

ETA: [call to tim d.]

[RING RING.]

[The message comes through with no available sender. Just two words. Nothing more.]

Tick.

Tock.

[Locked to Ren S]
Did you go? Was it wonderful?

[Locked to Rory B]
I don't know if I think you're the type to read books. Are you?

[Locked to David P]
[She knows it's a longshot, but:] David?

[Griffin]
Are you out? Where are you?



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Is becoming a man always an extremely violent experience or was I just lucky?