duel 5. ( anon text. )

[puzzlingly]

You know what fucking sucks?
The Speakeasy
The owner is never around.
Just Who Does SHE Think She Is?!?!?!
She can't do shit right around here.
WE HAVE NEEDS!
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO STAND THIS HEAT WITHOUT MY BOOZE?!

「Hey, hey, Rey's friends... yeah, he's calling you out, come defend your friend, come show you care about her! He needs you... She needs you. Please.
The clock is ticking.

Yep, this is ruse. It WAS HARD, OK?! He feels terrible. It had to be done.」

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[puzzlingly]

Is it? Are you telling me it is not true then?

「Give him some good news for a change.」

[restinglichface]

[Her mouth twists into a thin line, which doesn't bode well for anyone.]

Gimme some context. What did you even hear? And where!? Was it Kravitz? Cause I'll kick his undead ass...

[puzzlingly]

「That's not a no...」

Where are you?

[restinglichface]

You can't skip over my question! [But the elf huffs. Ugh, he wants to do this in person. End her.]

Just soaking up some sun outside my place.

[puzzlingly]

You skipped mine.

「Well, duh!」

Why do you even need a place?

「Look at that, he's on the move.」

[restinglichface]

[well played, atem. well played.]

What? Just cause I'm undead, I'm not entitled to a home? Your prejudice is showing, Atem.

[puzzlingly]

What can I say, I thought I knew you.

「Ouch.」

It's not all you though, I've been making that mistake over and over.

[restinglichface]

[For Lup, all of this is coming out of nowhere. They'd just had a nice moment not too long ago, sharing the sun and enjoying each other's company, so what the fuck was all of this??]

Excuse you? What crawled up your ass and died? I didn't do shit.

[puzzlingly]

「Hmm, is he wrong? Is that Lydia girl wrong too? He stops in his way to see her, just to ask again.」

Do liches feed on emotions or not?

[restinglichface]

Going by textbook definition, yeah. Liches are bad news. Like, ninety-nine percent of them just want to slurp up your pain.

[puzzlingly]

「Well, that sucks.」

Hah... That sure explains a lot...

[restinglichface]

Like what exactly?

[puzzlingly]

Never mind.

「He's probably making a big thing out of nothing, yeah he probably is. Can't see it.」

I'll explain you about Rey some other day, okay?

[restinglichface]

[Lup doesn't like any of this, but she especially doesn't like feeling like she's lost a friend. Or something. She's not sure.]

Yeah, whatevs.

[puzzlingly]

See you around then.

「Or not, yeah.」

[restinglichface]

[She rolls her eyes and hangs up. Lup doesn't like goodbyes, especially like this.]