hadriel | tenth. text. (and if you leave me, rest assured it would kill me.)

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tenth. text. (and if you leave me, rest assured it would kill me.)

[He's put off doing this notification as long as he can, hoping against hope that she'll turn up again, that her physical absence and alias's disappearance from the directory are mistakes, that there is another explanation waiting to be found. But it's been three long days, and no sign of her. She has friends, and they probably deserve to know, too.]

Sharon's gone.

[Yes, he's upset. No, he doesn't want to talk about it.]

I'm taking over maintenance of her emergency supply cache network, but I could use some help.

[Grieving? What grieving, there's work to be done.]

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[Prrrrobably, yes.]

It's fine. There's nothing to be done about it.

[never let it be said that George doesn't know how to cover her ass]

I guess not? Doesn't mean she won't be missed.

I know. She had friends. She did a lot for everyone here.

Yeah. Lots of friends. She's not gonna be forgotten.

I won't forget her. Ever.

[damnit, she should be better at this. she's had to give the loss speech to tons of dead people. but Sharon isn't dead, just missing. so there's no real closure]

Then. A part of her will never really go away.

[It's a little too close to what he was told as a child, when his mother died.]

You're making it sound like she's dead. She's not.

[death is the only frame of reference she has :( ]

No, you're right. She could come back. You never know.

I hope she doesn't.

[It's only partly true; the selfish part of him, the part that feels ripped in half without her, that part very much wishes for her to return to him.]

[what can she say to that? nothing, because George does hope she comes back. so instead, time to change the subject]

You mentioned caches. What are those and what needs to be done to help?

Stashes of emergency supplies dispersed around the city. They're marked. They need to be checked on and replenished periodically.

Okay. I can help with that. Just tell me how.

Just pick an area of the city and take responsibility for the emergency supply caches there. Check on them regularly, I'd suggest at least once a week.

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