006✖; (voice)

[circumitus]

[There's no visual, but if one listens closely they might be able to hear the sound of running water in the background. Sounds a lot like the streams in the jungle area of the oxygen garden, where someone has been camped out these past few weeks.

[Rey is remiss to this already. The sound of her silence and the audio click makes that more than obvious. Eventually, though, she comes back:]

"Am not very good with these things. With talking. Been here for awhile. Would think it'd be easier by now, since so much time has past. Bottom line is, have changed quite a bit since fourteen jumps ago. Woke up not even knowing my own name. Didn't understand much of anything. But some things are still difficult.

"Can understand that we have an abundance of deeper concerns, can't get some things out of my head lately."

[She pauses, because damn. Where was she going with this again?]

"...Kissing. Been remembering this. Don't know why. Am missing someone, perhaps."

[This whole thing is stupid, isn't it?]

"Apologies, this is a rather pointless topic, in retrospect."

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voice;

[handelaar]

[Wait what. He actually plays this twice.]

Missing someone.

[One of these days he'll remember to spell out his entire question when he's talking to her. Today is not that day.]

voice;

[circumitus]

Yes.

[One of these days HE SHOULD, because Rey can't handle it when people are being vague. She can't handle you. Argh.]

voice;

[handelaar]

[He figures the "elaborate" that would follow is implied. Except with her apparently.]

Do you know who you're missing, I mean.

voice;

[circumitus]

Yes.

[Okay, so this elaborating thing is going to have to work both ways.]

...She was here once. But now she isn't.

voice;

[handelaar]

[Luckily for her, it's habit for him to wait on it. And for once she does.]

From your world?

audio;

[logicunlocked]

Sounds like that someone must have been pretty important to you, then.

audio;

[circumitus]

Uncertain. I didn't know them for very long.

I feel as if they may have reminded me of someone else...

[logicunlocked]

That doesn't make whatever you had with that person any less valid.

[circumitus]

I suppose I just don't understand it.

[logicunlocked]

Feelings are hard to understand sometimes.

voice;

[fuckinghysterical]

[LB really didn't really have any sort of insightful advice for Rey at all, but fuck it, she seemed to be on a roll with this relationship advice thing. Except not really.]

If that's what sticks out in your mind, it must have been really good -- eeheehee -- the kissing, I mean.

[LB pauses, considering something.] So what do you miss more? The kissing or the "someone"?

voice;

[circumitus]

I suppose. There are worse things that I remember.

[Things that she'd rather keep out of her current thoughts, for the sake of staying focused.]

Don't know how to answer that. I didn't know them for long, but I think it was nice.

voice;

[fuckinghysterical]

Most of us do have worse things than that to remember. Or at least that's my experience. With that in mind, I guess you would treasure something like that a little more than the average person.

[Not that she herself was an average person, as much as she wished she could be sometimes.]

Well, if it's just the kissing you miss, maybe you should find someone else to kiss. Hahaha -- I'm pretty sure someone would be up for it around here.

voice;

[circumitus]

Wouldn't know about the average person, only my own personal experience. Those ones in particular are few.

...

[LB, did you seriously just suggest-]

I don't know what it is that I actually miss. I suppose that's the problem.

voice;

[fuckinghysterical]

[YOLO, Rey, except apparently not? Whatever, LB sees no issue in this advice.]

I'm not sure either, but whatever made you feel good is what you want to feel again, right? Eheh? So why not replicate that experience?

[killarevolution]

[Haymitch is just staring at his comm right now. Luckily that much can't be seen.]

Kissing.

[circumitus]

[Even so, she'd just be staring right back anyway.]

...Yes.

[killarevolution]

Kind of an odd thing to be missing, things being as they are.

[circumitus]

Interestingly enough, I don't suffer myself through constant concern over the way things are.

[killarevolution]

[That gets a laugh out of him.]

And you must be deliriously happy for it, right?

voice;

[maternityward303]

Intimacy has that effect on a lot of people. The missing it part, I mean.

voice;

[circumitus]

Didn't notice until recently.

...Things have changed.

voice;

[maternityward303]

Is that a bad thing?

voice;

[circumitus]

Sometimes, I believe things were simpler when I could hardly remember my own name.

voice;

[maternityward303]

[.....]

I don't really know what that's like, having memories tampered with. But I could see the appeal, if it made things less messy.

...Opportunity can be scary.