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( 12 ) anon text ♧ so glad we've almost made it so sad they had to fade

( ooc | same rules as the first go-round; this takes place at O'DARK THIRTY after everything goes down icly on the 12th. i'll do the same i did last time, spread out the comments so it's not 'be here now or suck it', however all the bulletins will go up icly in a cluster.

neal isn't watching the post and in fact has no idea he made it, due to the anon function no ic tracing can be done; but it's not like he didn't do this already, so the people who know his work don't need to icly beat around the bush to spare MYSTERY etc.

other than that, have fun and remember: smiley is our friend.

...right? )

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Are you disregarding me because I'm a minor?

No, why on earth would you think that.

[ don't read his public conversations that's rude ]

I like patterns.

Maybe you should take up knitting.

And take a hobby from an old man like you? Never.

No, really, I don't mind. If you ever want to borrow some needles, hit me up.

Do you have yarn or did you felt it all with your bitter tears at being bullied by teenagers?

It's true, I cry myself to sleep every night over the opinions of immature smart-alecs on the space internet. It's a tough life. p.s. You're the one who brought up felting yarn, pretty sure that outs you as a knitter.

I spent half my childhood in Guatemala. The people we traveled with herded sheep as a cover for their movements.

You learn about yarn.

Dare I ask for the context behind your exciting childhood exploits in Guatemala with the fake sheep herders? I would assume you're making that up, but nobody would make that up.

I was born there. My mom chose to raise me there before we moved back to LA.

[ okay, yes, maybe hiding with sheep herders in central america and then moving to la is a normal thing for people to do. it sounds vaguely familiar, but it's not ringing any specific bells. ]

Back to LA? So I'm guessing you're not actually Guatemalan. What, was your mom writing a dissertation on covert sheep herders? That doesn't really seem like a top destination for child-rearing. Not that LA's much better.

She went there after my dad died. I didn't ask questions about why.

I'm sorry to hear that. Can't blame her from wanting a change of scenery, then.

I never met him. It wasn't a thing.

Don't worry about it.

[ He can do that. Quick, change the subject. ]

So did sheep herding prepare you for a life in space? I guess it has a few things in common with nomadic lifestyles.

Los Angeles did that.

Prepared you for life in space? What year are you from, anyway?

2007. You've never been to LA, have you?

Can't say I have, no. Mostly stuck to the east coast. If you tell me L.A. has space monsters and likes to conduct mass psychological experiments on its residents, I'm going to go ahead and assume you're from an entirely different universe instead of just a different time period.

Nothing like that. But you start just glazing over the weird stuff.

I've seen some pretty weird things in Boston, but I don't know, killer spaceship is still kind of hard to digest. You must have a very high tolerance for weird.

I do.

John Reese.

[ There's a strange moment of déjà vu at the name, and he's about to text back when it abruptly clicks. Because that's funny, it's a lot like in Terminator except not actually, with the L.A. and the Central America and the name and the attitude. ]

Josh Levison, nice to talk knitting with you. I knew a guy named Kyle Reese once, I think he was on the west coast for a while. Any relation?

[ This is genuinely meant as a joke, like haha, now we can bond over Terminator. Sorry, John. ]

When?

[He clicks over to voice, and he sounds -

Young. His has a rasp in his voice, older.]

When did you know Kyle Reese?

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