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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he leans in closer to thorns, hands laced behind his back. hehehe. ]

Oh? But you were looking. Were you too busy thinking about how sexy I was?

[ tilts his head cutely. ]

I'm good at Ursus, too, if you want to be even more impressed.

[ kills chapter sixteen ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't waste your money.
I won't finish all of that and then my classmates will just take all of it.
I'll eat later.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It never hurts to have people in your back pocket…


But when's later?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ bragging!!!!

thorns unfortunately always thinks elysium is sexy so he can't refute that. he needs to be normal. ]


I guess if we go there then you can handle everything.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to take an exam now.

[ that's not a direct answer to his question but still

later. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I can.



[ hehehehehehehe

he smooches thorns and then rolls himself back onto his feet.
]

It's cold there, though. So maybe not for that long. Just a quick look?

Have you ever seen auroras?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)









The meal kit service starts tonight.
oversea: (pic#17607629)

[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he texts him another picture of a garbage can. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Once, on a mission. But not for long.

[ thorns was kind of busy at the time... on the mission.

so he figures it would be a different experience to just sight seeing with elysium. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ lmao

elysium knows thorns wouldn't dare.


he turns his attention back to the conference while imagining thorns pouting. thorns doesn't really pout, but elysium's perspective always has been kind of off. he hehehehehes here, too. stop him.
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I gotta find a way to pencil it in our schedule.

[ they eventually make their way back to docybara and the cart situation. just to be sure, elysium will check on docybara himself? how are his pupils?

idly, he keeps the conversation going just enough to keep thorns distracted from whatever elysium is doing too carefully.
]

Does this mean I won the bet, by the way?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ elysium... is the worst? thorns needs to study this further.

but he does have an exam, and then a few classes after that, before he drags his body back to the apartment to do more work. the longer elysium is gone the weirder it feels, but he also realizes that he has absolutely no idea what the situation is. at first thorns assumed it was a death in the family, but then it's odd that elysium didn't just flat out say that was it? hmmm ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ i'm sorry but the baby has been drugged. the plus side is that it doesn't seem to be a concerning dose amount, but it's still enough for someone who is trying to get his child sober to potentially be annoyed.

it's fine. ]


... I guess.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is trying to keep thorns fed so he's less lonely? him having an actual diet is also a plus but why is he catching so much flak for this…

dating is hard……


later in the evening, thorns gets a picture of a snail in the middle of the road. the next picture is it safely moved into the grass…
]

🐌
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

he crashes out internally.
]

Okay.

[ he is so preoccupied wondering how much this sets docybara's sobriety back that he can't even celebrate this win properly? this is hateful. ]



Anyone you wanted to say bye to other than the couple?

[ clearly elysium doesn't care… ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... thorns thinks this is adorable. he is literally never going to type these words or say them because he is not crazy in this timeline. ]

Making friends?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-06 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Not really.

?[ they technically said bye to the people running the inn when they officially gave the key back, and thorns mentioned to the people running the clinic that they were leaving soon so it won't be a surprise to find them gone. ]

Ready, mi vida?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It's rough out here, you know. My best friend won't talk to me…

[ literally whose fault ]

How was your exam?
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-06 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm always ready when it comes to you…

[ he does not sound it…

but he pads back to thorns' side, looking at thorns' hand longingly as if this will heal him. it's different than when he reaches out first? this is ill behaviour.
]

Oh. We do get to see our favourite person on the way out.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-07 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
I think it was fine.

It was on the things we learned while I was out.


[ he types something. stops typing. starts typing. stops typing again. ]

Can I call you now?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-07 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
You're my favorite person?

[ ...

wait. ]


Oh, the guard.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-07 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ you know what's funny. they are somehow talking more distances apart than when they are living in the same building!! okay!!!

elysium is not thinking about it this way, however. he is only thinking wow… they're talking everyday? without making that association.


he goes ahead and calls thorns first…
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-11-07 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[

he goes ahead and picks thorns' hand up himself, maybe just a little sulkily.
]

Who do you think would fight in a duel between you and him?

[ stop trying to pit thorns in various duels ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-07 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ who knew that they just needed to not be around each other. maybe they should be long distance forever.

thorns picks up the call. ]


Hey. [ smooth.... ] What are you doing?

[ where did he encounter snail. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-11-07 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ elysium you baby

thorns swings their arms automatically. ]


I would.