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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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Everywhere is terrible. At least home is a familiar terrible, I suppose.

For what it's worth, I'm sorry you have to stay behind.

Thanks, but... I dunno. I guess it's not a lot better or worse being here, it just is.

[So he feels weird about saying it's a bad thing he's here, but he can't say it's good either.]

That depends on who you ask. But if everywhere is shit, there's always a place that's a little less shit. All you can hope for is to make the most of what you've been given.

[Chris gives a small grin at that; he can't help it.]

That's the most optimistically pessimistic thing I've ever heard.

I do my best. It's better to just accept that life is hell wherever you end up living yours. It makes it easier to find anything good in it. Even if it's not bright enough to chase the darkness away entirely.

I guess so, but I like to think the 'hell' parts are the outliers, not the good ones.

[Even in this place.]

Then I envy you. You've been quite lucky.

Or I'm looking at it differently.

[He says it amiably, but he does really dislike that insinuation. He doesn't doubt he's had it a lot easier back in his world--until the last day there, anyway--than a lot of people, but not necessarily in Hadriel, and he just generally doesn't like people assuming such things.]

Maybe. [That goes against everything Cal had experienced in his life, but he's also not stupid. Maybe life is just hell for him. If someone told him that he would actually believe, anyway.]

Then I envy that you can.

[He's really not sure what to say to that, so he just shrugs.]

I guess that's fair. I mean, at least you've got the right idea on the looking for the bright moments, right?

They're rare enough that they're hard to miss.

Maybe you're looking too hard. Like... Something doesn't have to be super important to still be a good thing and worth appreciating.

How very trite. And yet true, I suppose

Hey, it's not trite if you're saying it might be true 'you suppose', because that means you hadn't thought of it that way before.

[Right? Close enough. He's going with it.]

[That actually earns a laugh]

Fair enough. You've caught me.

[Chris laughs a little at that too.]

Sweet; I'll take my victories where I can get them.

I'm sure you'll cherish it forever. Call it a gift.

Thanks. I'll enjoy it as one of the little things.

How very sincere of you.

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