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[isawallflower]

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post-hiatus nap, late april???

[hairday]

ok i guess i have to apologize to you for every time i've ever teased you about the rip van winky thing

nods, lapril

[isawallflower]

Oh my GOODNESS, welcome back to the land of the living, Steve!!!
I greatly encourage your recently found empathy for the horror that is waking up and discovering many weeks have passed in your absence.


Are you doing okay?? Do you need a recap???

[hairday]

i'm sorry
OFFICIALLY

now can we not say things that imply that i was dead


i'm fine, but apparently i'm not the only one in the house who's been catching up on beauty sleep so a recap would be great , actually? please??? you're the best riles

cw: drowning mentions

[isawallflower]

OH
SORRY

I wasn't thinking!!! :X

March was not very good. There was this stranger than usual fog that spread throughout the city, and it sort of created a huge mind-meld? It wasn't like last year with the network linking to our minds, it was like people seeing and re-experiencing memories, both their own and others. It was overall incredibly exhausting and I personally slept for a few days after it was over with.

That sort of strange and unsettling harpy, Harrier Du Bois, took credit for it in the name of the fog. I think. It was a little disjointed and incoherent.

The expeditions that were being planned into the Wasteland and Lake Fors moved forward. I went on the one to the lake. Both of them brought back some old artifacts from the abandoned town and underwater city, but most of what we found was something that looked like the Sea of Stars but was just a lot of glittering rocks.

[ riley maybe has five of them. perhaps six. ]

Something like a siren that lived in the lake got angry, and that's what you just missed! She played I think a magic violin and compelled people either to tell the truth or go drown themselves in the lake.

On a more personal note, Ms. Jodraiel isn't at the orphanage anymore. I checked and her name's in the graveyard.

In the non-horrible, more every day news, a lot of people are moving out of the apartments as of late. I think mostly to your neck of the woods, actually. Possibly somewhat influenced by the aforementioned disaster that was March.

[hairday]

awesome
is it too much for those fog lovers to stop making everybody's lives worse for power or pats on the back or whatever the hell for ONE second??
like i know the answer is yes, but i'm honestly just shaking my head right now

and i know i'm the one who hyped up the apartments, but i've gotta say it
moving out's the best decision i've made

there's no telling whose sharing the building with you nowadays

[ Hint, HINT. ]

[isawallflower]

At least this time other fog followers got were among those angry. I don't think most anyone liked that.

I know, finding somewhere else may be the best option going forward...
But it's been home for so long it feels like.
And I wouldn't really want to move out of the city.

[hairday]

i kind of get it
and kind of don;'t

you're not saying any of that bc you just don't want to also have the move all that random stuff on the roof are you
you know, your art project
your bird art project?

[ What a long way around saying "nest". ]

[isawallflower]

It's a NEST, Steve.
You can say it, it's not a dirty word.

[hairday]

Hey, answer the question
It's not a dirty word, but i'll still think of you as person before i think of you as a bird

[isawallflower]

[ A pause. ]

It's not JUST because of the nest.
I wouldn't want you to think of me as anything but a person, either. I've just accommodated to the instincts well.

[hairday]

I'll change the subject. :( for now
But just think about it! the advantages of not being bang in the center of every crazy thing that happens here

[ ... ]

your expedition, let's talk about THAT

< r.gardner >

[sweartoyou]

Riley, I have a normal girl problem sort of and I think maybe sisters would be able to talk about this, so can I ask you about something kind of...silly?

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

Now, Ray, no question is silly.
What's on your mind?

< r.gardner >

[sweartoyou]

Someone told me he has romantic feelings for me and he's not being weird about it.

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

[ oh that ain't what she expected ]

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

Oh!! Oh my goodness, well!!
It's very good he's not being weird about it!!!
Do you like him back?

< r.gardner >

[sweartoyou]

[She tried to prepare Riley. Not well, because "normal girl problem" could mean just about anything, but an attempt was made.

...It's probably not worth pointing out that that's a lot of exclamation points.]

I don't know.
How am I supposed to tell?
I mean, I do like him, but what if it's not the right kind?

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

[ Sorry, Ray!!


Oops, exclamation points. ]

What do you feel inside when you're with him? Is it different than other friends?

< r.gardner >

[sweartoyou]

[It takes her a long time to type something that isn't "I don't know" to send.]

I feel like all my friends are different.

I mean... You're my sister, but things with my brothers are different. I made Sonic the same promise Zack made to me, but they aren't the same. Reira...

...Too strange to replicate.

It's not a bad feeling with him, though. I like when he talks, and I'm comfortable being myself around him.

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

Okay, I think that was a poor question on my part, you're right.
But if he makes you feel good and he's comfortable with you, that's a good start!
I think the only way to really know is to spend more time with him.

< r.gardner >

[sweartoyou]

I don't like not knowing things.

It was almost better when the boy that liked me was weird about it...
At least with Eddie I knew what to expect and I didn't care about him.
I don't want to hurt Donnie by accident, though.

<CheeryCherry>

[isawallflower]

That's the problem with figuring these things out, when you care about someone.
When you don't, it's easy.

He isn't pushing you for a response or anything like that, right?
It doesn't SOUND like he is, but I have to ask.

< r.gardner >

[sweartoyou]

No. I told him I had to think about it and he told me that was okay and he doesn't want it to get in the way of us being friends. He just wanted to tell me.

[How dare he be reasonable and thus worth consideration, UGH.]

Oh. Another thing.
What is it supposed to mean when someone likes "girls who are mean"?

begins june 30th.

[digiorno]

[On the evening of June 30th, Giorno stops by a stationary store on the way home from An Event. He purchases a pocket-sized black notebook with a small yellow bird emblazoned on the front. When he gets home, he opens it and writes a few things.]

[On the inside cover, he writes: PROPERTY OF RILEY WILLIAMS. On the first page, he writes: TODAY'S DATE IS:, although he does not put down a date. And on the next page after that, he writes:]

6/30

Riley,

Trish was challenged to a duel and arrived in a maxi dress wielding a pipe. The kind of pipe that goes in plumbing. I am so angry with you for not being here so I can tell you about this. The only people who would understand how goddamn insane this is are not in the mood to be incredulous. So when you come back, the first thing you're going to do is process this with me. That's compulsory. I need to see your facial expression as you digest.

Hurry up.

—Giorno

july 18th.

[digiorno]

7/18

Riley,

A lot of bad things are happening, but there is one funny thing. This month everyone turned into a mixture of monsters, which is simultaneously among the weirdest things I've experienced here and something it surprises me we haven't seen before. Fugo is a demon and a vampire. Trish is a pooka and a waldgeist? She looks a lot like Steve during the fog, but pink. I'm the same, but I decided to be a demon for a while. I can fly, which is a lot of fun as a demon even though it wasn't as a vampire. I wish we could fly together. If I see you again, maybe I'll try it again.

Also I forgot to say before but you missed pride. I got you some things. Visors and a regular hat and a really ugly shirt. Probably some other things? I got a lot. Taako and Lup were selling Baby Slut shirts but I only found out afterw

I could ask them to make an orange one custom, I think.

I'm going to go do that.

Miss you,

—Giorno