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[isawallflower]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHEERYCHERRY. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 019.46.820.17 *** CHEERYCHERRY has joined 019.46.820.17 <CHEERYCHERRY> It's Riley! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please leave a message! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please be someone with their priorities sorted out properly!

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[missleadingquestions]

[There's a longer pause than usual.]

ok!!! so maybe it's nepotism

are you saying no???

[isawallflower]

No!!
No I'm not saying no!!!

I just don't know
Why are you doing this?
You don't know what I sound like. You don't know what I need money for. But you're just hiring me in a causal text message?

[missleadingquestions]

because i want to!

[it feels so simple... but]
If you really want to know, it's pretty much no risk. there's like a million different things that need to get done at a food service place so there's bound to be SOMETHING you can do even if it isn't singing! and acts are pretty come-and-go anyway

that's just how Ryslig works!!

and why we've all gotta help each other out when we can ; )

[isawallflower]

[ acts are pretty come-and-go

She doesn't respond for a long, long few minutes. ]

If you're really sure.

For the record I do like my other jobs. Cassandra's just out of the office right now and taking care of animals all day can get a little tiring.

[ She's making it business. Giving into her emotions right now would leave her a wreck and...she's had enough of that, at least for this week. ]

[missleadingquestions]

tooootally

besides you should totally do as many things as you can in a place like this right?? try out all the jobs, all the weird career paths... who's gonna stop you??

plus if you come work for me we'll have to see each other more often ; )

[which she has a suspicion maybe won't be Riley's *favorite* part.]

[isawallflower]

[ Surely, on the other end... ]

I don't particularly like to do things I'm bad at, so, I'll stop me.
And I'm not really looking to get too wild with it.

[ She tries to not comment on that last bit. This is still weird. ]

[missleadingquestions]

to each their own~

so, when can you come by?

[isawallflower]

Give me a few days.
I'm recovering from something. I know I just said I needed money but I don't think you want your employee collapsing on stage.

[missleadingquestions]

oh good point. yeah stay home if you're sick!!!

oh

one more thing


you're not still scared of dandy, right?

[maya did she even ever say she was scared of him]

cw: abuse logicish, complicated punishment thoughts

[isawallflower]

[ Sick, Maya says, because she doesn't know it's Riley’s body weak from revival. She almost clarifies. But, she doesn't want the pity. Not for something that she thinks about and can only conceptualize as justifiable punishment.

It's fine. The question shakes her from that soon after. ]

I've never been scared of Dandy, Maya, he was just rude to me and I didn't want it to happen again.
It’s fine, as long as he doesn't yell at me it'll be fine.

[missleadingquestions]

oh yeah i can't promise he won't be rude that's just kinda him
but

i'll help make sure he doesn't yell.

[isawallflower]

I can work with that then.
Both the attitude and the job.

[missleadingquestions]

then you're hired!





try not to disappear too soon ok?

[isawallflower]

[ Riley's eyes glaze over, and the world around her feels like it's filled with static.

I won't go anywhere, I won't leave y̶o̷u̸.̴
I will fly to your side, n̷o̸ ̶m̸a̵t̴t̸e̴r̴ w̴̹̎h̷̢̚á̶̼t̴͙́.̴͈̎
I will take care of you, Sunshine. From the moment you were born, until the very last star in the galaxy burns out, I̸ ̷w̴i̸l̴l̵ ̸w̶a̶t̷c̶h̴ ̴o̸v̷e̷r̴ a̸͈̾ǹ̵͖ḑ̷͒ ̵͈͑ṕ̷̮r̵͉̆ò̵͎t̵͈̚e̴͙͑c̵̩̋ẗ̵̻ ̸̞̈́y̶̗̿ŏ̶̺u̴̜͝ —̷̘̹̹̯̎̿͗ ̵̡͉̥̌͜ț̵̡̌h̵͚̒̈́͂ͅa̴̟̍̕t̸̥̊͜,̵̡̤̈́ ̸̘͚̤̞͆͋̍Ȉ̴̛͉̤̈́̕ ̷̢̗̣̮̋̽͝p̷̭̀͑͑̍r̴͕̹̓̉o̴̥̼͆̎̿͝m̴̨̲̩̩̍î̸͇̙̼̀̆͝s̸͎͔͉͚̃̊e̵͙͖͍̲̋͘.̶̧̨̇

Her claws are poised very precariously atop on her laptop. They tremble. The way they're moving, they almost—


She pulls them back.
A few long minutes later, she shoots back a quick, simple reply— ]

If I do it won't be by choice.
I'll see you there.

[ And then she shuts her laptop away. She's afraid, if she doesn't, that she'll break it again. ]