hadriel | 015 [Video]

Heya, guys. I'm sure a few of you um, already know what I'm gonna say.

[Chris definitely doesn't look as cheery as usual, but also not terribly upset; mostly he just seems a little drained, but otherwise calm enough.]

Em's uh... Emily's gone. So I guess I'm gonna have to take over for her in the 'telling people like it is' department, and I'd add like, the 'being right' one but I'm already right at least as often as she is. However, I'm totally not doing the sewing or getting up early to run the coffee cart parts. Gonna need other people to step in on those.

[And okay, joking aside, he takes a deep breath and continues.]

I know um, I know a lot of people here knew her, but not necessarily much about uh... What we're going back to, at home, since I don't think she talked about it much. So if anyone has any questions about that, I can probably answer, and hopefully that'll make things... You know. A little easier?

[Worrying about what people are returning to is usually the hardest part on him, when someone leaves, after all. Oh, and one more thing--]

Wolfie's still here, by the way. So no one freak if you see him with me; as Em always said, he only bites if you're an asshole.

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Thanks. I mean, it'll suck not having her around, but I think she was running out of patience for this place.

[Joking making everything okay, obviously.]

[Jo smiles softly. She gets it.]

God, aren't we all?

[He makes a noise somewhere between a sigh and a laugh.]

Yeah, fair enough. Though how much kind of seems to vary day by day.

That's the truth.

I'm thinking it'll be more when Delight and Rage go off on their scouting adventure.

[Because the coffee supply will dwindle and that'll definitely mess with his patience.]

How bad do you think it can get?

Well I know we're not gonna have any new coffee unless we can con Hope into it, so at least that bad.

[Speaking of, he should send Hope a message.]

[She meant real problems, Chris.]

...You'll survive.

Sure, but at what cost?

[This is a tragedy, Jo.]

[No it's not. Chris will survive without coffee, even if it's hard.]

No one's going to die.

You're really gonna say that? Here?

[If there's any way that someone could die from lack of coffee, it'd happen in Hadriel.]

Okay, no one is going to die of caffeine withdrawal. Better?

I guess, though it's still this place. Who knows what might happen, and we just shouldn't take that risk.

[He needs his coffee.]

[She would roll her eyes, but she doesn't want to get into that with the teenager.]

Good luck.