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[dirtdevil]

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[zerotohiro]

[Excuse you he totally counts!!!]

Heh. Been better, but I'm alive and we're out of there. Gotta count for something right?

[dirtdevil]

yeah. everything ok?

[zerotohiro]

Depends. You talk to Tadashi today?

[dirtdevil]

yeah. he told me that girl's gone.

[zerotohiro]

Ami???? Yeah I heard from another friend. I didn't know he already noticed.

He was already gone by the time I woke up this morning. We haven't really talked a lot in the last couple of days.

[dirtdevil]

I haven't seen him. he's got a lot to process, so maybe he just went somewhere to be alone for awhile.

[zerotohiro]

He's at his workshop working on your 3D gear, he already told me that. I'll be surprised if I see him again before I fall asleep again. I guess just…y'know. If you talk to him again later today check in on him. Stuff like that.

[dirtdevil]

in that case, I might see if I can stop by. I'll let you know how he is.

[zerotohiro]

Make sure he's not drowning in pizza.
Also I might have to put a slight pause on the arm I'm building you. That okay?

[dirtdevil]

it's fine, it's not like he's here right now anyway. is there a problem?

[zerotohiro]

Not exactly? Just slowing down a little bit, working on something else, bed rest...all that fun crap.

Mostly the second one. It should only take a couple of days once I find parts.

[dirtdevil]

you mean that "keytar" thing?

bed rest, huh? I didn't realize you'd been bitten that badly. or did something else happen?

[zerotohiro]

Nah, something else. It's...sort of a split-decision, but I think it might help all of us if I can get it right.

And it's something else. Being bitten didn't help though. Like I said, it would have been smart to stay out of the underground.

[dirtdevil]

[ ...he's curious about what Hiro's making now, but that's gonna have to wait. that second part... it's probably just as well this conversation isn't happening in person. ]

..."would have been?" are you saying you went back down there?

[zerotohiro]

[Whoops.]

Maybe?

Yeah. I had to, Levi, I had to make sure nobody else was stuck down there! And I wanted to get another look at that weird altar.

[dirtdevil]

[ facepalm goes here. ]

you should have told me, I would have gone with you. what happened?

[zerotohiro]

I don't need people to babysit me...

...it's a really long story but the masks--I don't know how to explain it. It's like people who wore the mask had their entire personalities shifted around and I just wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time and somebody challenged me to a fight and almost killed me.

[dirtdevil]

to help, not to babysit. you almost died? I might have been able to do something about that.

[ come on, man. 'babysit,' really? ]

[zerotohiro]

[Someone's used to having a very protective older brother.]

A two on one fight wouldn't have been fair either. [He almost gets disemboweled and he cares about fairness. Thanks Disney.]

[dirtdevil]

life's full of unfair fights.

[ he's not trying to sound like a patronizing douche, but it's... true. in his experience, anyway. ]

[zerotohiro]

Look it was my own fault. I shouldn't have gone back down there after all of that. And besides, she probably would have really hurt you, too.

[dirtdevil]

[ he's not sure about that, but it'd be pointless to argue it, so he leaves it alone. on the other hand... ]

I'm sure Tadashi had something to say about it.

[zerotohiro]

...usual Tadashi stuff. I haven't really talked to him much about it besides what happened and who it was. I'm sure he was worried but it's fine now. If he didn't think it was fine he wouldn't have left.

[dirtdevil]

true. I'm sure he would have stayed home with you if he was still freaking out about it.

[ shit, what else do you say to someone who just got stabbed? ]

I'm glad you didn't die.

[ nailed it. ]

[zerotohiro]

[Levi...but at least it helps ease the tension.]

Believe me, you're not the only one who's really glad for that.

Anyway, looks like the masks' power's been totally drained, the girl's fine now. Or about as fine as she was before all this.

[Debates...debates...]

I gotta tell you something else, too.