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[swiftlet]

[Swift is, let's be honest, not great with using this thing. It feels clunky and unnecessary, but it's what he's got to work with. Not everyone is a har, so he'll learn to live with it. Maybe eventually he'll even get good at it.

As it is for now, when the video starts he's glaring at the screen and it catches the tail end of a curse before he schools his face into a more neutral, perhaps diplomatic, expression.]

As I understand it, Seel har Parasiel has been here for quite some time...alone, let's say. [Unsupervised. He means unsupervised. He hasn't had a proper babysitter.] I would like to take a moment to apologize personally if he's been incorrigible or stubborn or plain mean. I don't know all of what he said to everyone, but I'm hoping it won't be a problem for much longer. [It will still be a problem for a while until Seel gets used to having Swift around again, and he knows that. He's at least prepared for it. This by itself is going to cause a fight.]

If you are having problems with him, please don't hesitate to contact me and I'll make sure it's taken care of. Once again, I am very sorry and I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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[lifetothefullest]

[No huge surprise in this response, since Lance thinks he has an idea of what the particular subject is, although it's a least a good sign that Swift seems to recognize a correlation if this is indeed the actual issue.]

Of course he doesn't, and no amount of past experiences excuse or justify current actions. But it's also unrealistic to expect drastic changes without addressing the cause, and an expectation to simply ignore or forget about a past issue and move on tends to worsen problems, not resolve them.

[swiftlet]

I'm not the one expecting to ignore it. Or expecting him to.

[lifetothefullest]

[Lance is not seeing this conversation going anywhere useful from this point, and he's said the most important things, so--]

Alright. I presume he'll go through these conversations later, if he hasn't already, so perhaps the advice will get to him and he'll reconsider confronting the issue on his own.

[Lance hopes so, because it's obvious things aren't exactly working in continuing as they are. But he doubts anyone is going to listen to him, and he can't exactly make them do anything, so hopefully they'll just come to the same conclusion on their own.]

[swiftlet]

Perhaps. I suppose we'll find out. If nothing else, he knows I'm upset with him.