If You Try To Go Alone, Don't Think I'll Understand [video]

[wormintheglass]

[Bianca, instead of the bar or her own quarters, is broadcasting from a Spire apartment that's unfamiliar to anyone who didn't happen to visit Johanna Mason's quarters.

There's no music, no theatrics. She sits on a single bed, a throwing axe lying across her lap, and looks into the camera with sombre, dark eyes.]

Johanna Mason's gone. She got away. She's free.

[And Hadriel just became smaller, darker and lonelier than Bianca feels she can bear.]

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voice; private.

[scarletcast]

[ Sombre, ]

You are alone.

[ She understands when a piece drifts away. ]

voice; private.

[wormintheglass]

I feel like I've been alone forever.

Did you meet her, Wanda?

voice; private.

[scarletcast]

No.

[ Everyone is alone. It is a painful truth, and Pietro shielded her from it as he did so often. ]

Tell me what she was like.

text; private

[dedikated]

[ it takes a while for Kate to figure out what to say to that. part of her just wants to bitterly proclaim how lucky johanna is, the other knows it's tactless.

so, because she actually likes Bianca despite her bad ideas, she goes for another option entirely. ]

Location? [ she can guess that the flat is Johanna's, but where that is is another question entirely. ]

text; private

[wormintheglass]

[That's going to be Bianca's only consolation in this. It's a paltry one from where Bianca's sitting: she's selfish enough to prefer Johanna here with her regardless, but somewhere under her rage and misery, there's a very real gladness. Bianca saw what Johanna went through for her freedom.]

spire one 701

bring tequila

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[dedikated]

[ it doesn't take much time at all for kate to turn up. okay, so maybe she pushed herself along the rooftops a little faster than normal - as much to avoid running into anyone else who used them as to get there faster - and stopped by the bar to sneak a bottle of something out (vodka, not tequila, but the principle's the same), but she's here now.

knock knock. ] Vodka and whiskey do? [ she still had half a bottle of that particular present left; may as well use it. ]

[beanstalk]

Then she's better off.

[wormintheglass]

[She's still red-eyed and soggy, but it's remarkable how quickly Bianca can lift her chin and speak as her normal self-assured self when the feed clicks on.]

Of course she is. I just thought people might like to know.

[beanstalk]

I'm under the impression it happens frequently, people leaving. You intend to do that every time someone you know manages to leave without you?

[text]

[thechoiceisyours]

[It takes a little while before he decides if he wants to reply to this or not, considering everything that's gone on regarding Bianca, but he'd really liked Johanna. He's not entirely sure if he going back to where she's from is a good thing or not, but he hopes so.]

Thanks for letting us know.

[text]

[wormintheglass]

thank you

[private]

an apology seems very inadequate, as well as potentially inflammatory; Emily was very firm about wanting me to avoid you all now.

but I am very sorry, Chris.

[private text]

[thechoiceisyours]

[He wasn't really expecting that, especially now that the guilt that went with Sorrow's resurrection seems to have worn off, and it's... Kind of strange to hear. Not bad strange, just he doesn't entirely know what to feel strange.

So it takes another short delay to respond, mostly because he has to figure out the right words.]

It's okay. I mean I can't say I'm not still pissed you all decided to do the whole thing you did, but I believe you and Kate didn't want anyone to get hurt at least.

[He doesn't think that can be said about Sharon, but he doubts Bianca or Kate had any ill intentions toward anyone but the gods. Of course that doesn't mean he likes that they decided to risk everyone that way, but that's a different issue.]

[Text]

[mismanagement]

I am sorry.

[Text]

[wormintheglass]

you are so much kinder than I deserve, Maketh <3 <3

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[64th]

What? [ she looks pissed. ] You can't say that and not explain.

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[wormintheglass]

[Bianca doesn't look pissed so much as devastated, but she answers with a snap of ill-temper to her voice.]

What needs explaining, exactly? She was here. Now she's not. I don't think I can simplify that down any further.

[64th]

You said she got away. What do you mean by that?

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[wormintheglass]

yes. yes, i am. even i can't be selfish enough not to be glad.

but i wanted her with me.

voice

[unitas]

[ For someone who is so often harsh, there is something incredibly soft to her tone currently. ] ...Can I do anything? [ Sharon knew Johanna. She wouldn't say she knew the woman exceptionally well, but there's something about wrecking havoc together in Fear's temple that bonds you, much in the way wrecking Hadriel bonded Bianca, and Sharon. And it's very clear Bianca was close with the other. ]

voice

[wormintheglass]

I don't want to be alone. Where are you?

voice

[unitas]

No where you would want to be. [ she's made the small gap of fog, and darkness her new temporary home, far from the eyes of everyone else. she won't have Bianca come out here. ] But I'll come to you—wherever you need me.

text

[pighead]

aw man im gonna miss her

guess i better go steal an extra bottle of tequila from the bar

text

[wormintheglass]

i knew i liked you.

tell me how you made friends. tell me everything she did before i met her.