Code - 005 [Text] (Dated to the 10th)

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

 I've got an important question for you, Hadriel:
Can a Kangaroo Jump Higher than a House? 

[99% of you will not realize that this is Whistler's announcement that he is no longer well...dead. But thats the point, isn't it? The people who need to know will know. The rest of you can enjoy a quality joke.]

[Private to Julie]

How you holding up, Jules? 

 

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[redwinekindofgirl]

Sure, go for it.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Why did you come? It's a war zone out there and I'm just a random blind man.

[redwinekindofgirl]

You sounded afraid. It didn't matter that I didn't know who you were.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Well. I owe you a very big one, Julie.

Don't know if you noticed but there's not exactly a long list of people who'd notice if I went missing.

[It's not really meant as self pity. He's a hermit, after all. But facing the prospect of dying alone definitely puts the consequences of being a hermit into sharp focus.

It's maybe the first time Whistler's ever been bothered by his general isolation.]

[redwinekindofgirl]

What about Atem?

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Well yeah. He'd notice.

Or I think so.

Things are sort of complicated on that end.

[redwinekindofgirl]

You don't have to tell me about it.
I mean, it sounds personal.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

I think maybe more personal on his end than mine
So. Did I miss anything exciting while I was away?
What about you? You all in one piece yourself?

[redwinekindofgirl]

Sorrow was killed.
It was pretty awful. We all felt it. Even the Null did, I think.

I still have all of me attached. I guess I'm doing okay.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Shit. I'm not even sure what to say to that.

You're probably tired of talking about it, aren't you?

[redwinekindofgirl]

Which part?

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

The God getting KO'd part.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Oh.
I haven't really talked about it.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Really? It just sort of seems like the type of thing a person would talk about.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Why?

I wouldn't have even known, if I hadn't felt it.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

People here always talk a lot when anything happens with the gods.

[Too much if you ask Whistler.

Then as a random afterthought]

You aren't hungry are you? Making pasta.

[redwinekindofgirl]

I don't really care about them.

Are you offering me food? Because I'll take it.

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

[That was a good answer. Another check in the 'pro-Julie' box]

I wouldn't tease about free food. But only on one condition

[redwinekindofgirl]

Another joke?

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Damn I didn't think of that.

Ok. Two conditions.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Damn, shouldn't have tried to guess.
What's the condition?

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

Always guess at your own peril.

1st Condition: A new joke
2nd Condition: You have to make it here in one piece. No wiggle room on condition 2.

[redwinekindofgirl]

I wasn't intending to have any parts of me fall off along the way.
Are you at the labs?

[whistlewhilstyouwork]

No.

Spire 2. 801.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Okay. I'll be there, in one piece.