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[day 2 of the dust storm and...yo, Hadriel, Dr. Asshole needs a favor]

I don't suppose there's anyone who can give me a hand with something.

[he shifts the video from himself, past an enormous black flag tacked to his wall, to a gaping hole in the wall of his apartment. There's already a fine layer of dust collecting like drifting snow around the edges of the floor.]

My place took some damage in the Null battle. Fixing it wasn't exactly a priority until right about now, and I'm not exactly a carpenter.

If anyone can take care of this so I don't have to sleep in the hallway outside, that'd be great. In return I can use my ability to teleport you in and out, or anywhere else in the city.

[but Law, why can't you just find a new apartment? He has reasons, okay.]

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I cant keep it up indefinitely. its a stamina thing. anything I bring up will only stick together so long as the room is up, and I cant keep it up until the storm is over

ohhh ok.
we have somethin like that where im from too.
its called an illusion.

[omg Harlan he will punch you]

I know what an illusion is you asshole

this is not an illusion!!

idk man sounds p fuckin similar to me.
wtf good does it do if the effect is fleeting?
ive got illusion spells out the ass. sounds like its on par to me.

[he is not drunk enough for this]

illusions dont deal with actual physical objects, do they? I do.

[such a level of inebriation would be a health hazard so that's for the best really.]

they can. i can kill ppl w. illusions. ive done it more than once.
in that case it doesnt matter whether or not its real. it has real effects.
and those effects arent permanent unless u can make it count sooo still sounds close enough to an illusion to me.

yeah come over here and let me stick your head to a wall and you tell me how illusory it is

[but you know that is some interesting info there, Harlan]

so what like. terrify people to death with visions or something?

jfc u kno im fuckin w. u right?
settle down there tiger.
but yeah kinda. i can conjure illusions that feel real enough to do actual damage.
fuckin w. a persons brain is nothin to sneeze at.

[nope, because Law is easy to bait when he takes everything seriously. He has a long way to go to learn to read tone in text...

So he's going to conveniently pretend he didn't see that part and just forge on with the illusion bits]

no it really isnt. didnt think you could do anything useful besides throw hail at people. had a huge bruise from that by the way thanks a lot

lmfao fuck off. i can do tons of other shit.
im not a one trick pony.
like some ppl.
js.
and look buddy a bruise is better than idk decapitation. impalement via laser cutter. etc.
yw.

[yeah yeah, he gets the point]

just hope we dont get into another war like that where I have to show you everything. that was bullshit on another level. I really dont want to watch you die again.

[well, the general "you." He likes Michael better.]

wtf u didnt have to show me shit. i was doin fine on my own.
how tf did u kno i died?

[welp time to finally talk about this, it seems]

I was there. near there. I was fighting just outside on the steps. sensed two life signs weaken and then vanish behind me.

[it sucked, okay? it sucked a lot.]

[...What?]

how did u know it was us?
and why the fuck didnt you do anything about it?

I have eyes, you know.

there were too many of them, I couldnt get in until it was far too late. I cant raise the dead.

right.

[Congrats, Law. You have encountered the rarest of situations in that Harlan doesn't know what to say. Man, of all people, why the hell did it have to be this guy?

Then again, he wouldn't want his friends to have witnessed his death, either. It, uh, wasn't pretty.]

it was a fluke.
sorrow dying fucked everything up.

[yeah, at least it was the guy who's used to things like that, and worse. Still, Law didn't take it well. Rampage of death to all Null, very handy but very exhausting.]

yeah i kind of gathered that. knocked me down for a second too.

I havent talked to Michael since then, you two all right?

were getting there.

[That's as much as he's willing to say re: Michael's issues... If Law wants to know, he can talk to Michael himself. And Harlan's hearing issues are all fixed, so no need to explain that.]

anyway its not a big deal. dying isnt permanent so who tf cares.

[someday he will. Today is not that day.]

not a big deal? unless it was totally painless and a nice nap from which you wake up and everything's fine, Im going to keep believing its a big deal

once the horrifically painful part was over it may as well have been a nice nap.
not like i knew any different in the moment. tho ig it was idk heavier than sleeping.
like when ur exhausted and u pass out and suddenly its the next day and ur grasp on time is all fucked up.
and ive heard usually everythings fine after. hope was just spent from the null battle.
so there u go. two out of three for not a big deal.
just dont take a laser cutter to the everything and ull be fine.

[iF HE JOKES ABOUT IT MAYBE IT WON'T SOUND AS TRAUMATIZING it was pretty traumatizing.]

[jesus christ Harlan...]

still not going to be rushing out to experience it myself.

[but if he says it's fine Law's not going to argue. He'd be the first one to just pick up and keep going with life, so he'll allow Harlan - and Michael - the same courtesy.]