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[elevelvetor]

Elizabeth Velveteen

"Good morning, noon, or night. You have reached Elizabeth Velveteen, who may or may not be here right now. Please leave a message if you have need of me."

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[feistytrader]

I wanted to come home. I'm tired of this.

[It's not a good reason, and saying it gently doesn't make him feel any less childish about it, but it's the truth. He turns to Liz; she's taking it easy on him and he knows it, but he doesn't want to leave her question unanswered.]

I got caught in the fog. The guy that keeps showing up for me can make himself look like anyone, so... He caught me off guard.

[And that makes him feel way more vulnerable than he does with Goro cleaning out his wound. He's a good sport and doesn't move around any or protest all that much.]

I got the burns when we first got to the jungle.

[elevelvetor]

And here I thought the girl plaguing me was terrible.

[ ...she is pretty bad, but Elizabeth can't imagine... There's the things she helped Yato with too, and that girl—she touches her left arm idly, though she's wearing something long-sleeved. Tugs at her sleeve a little, too. ]

You have my greatest sympathies. Really, very many of them, actually. At least they can't come inside... I'd dislike it if we lost our apartment to destruction. [ ...Mmm. ] Are you alright?

[ Not physically, she obviously can see that, but... The gentle way of asking she has, she means otherwise. ]

[feistytrader]

[He pauses briefly, hesitantly, and his expression looks vulnerable for a moment, but he quickly shakes his head. No, it's not that he's upset or scared, it's-]

I'm angry. How long are we supposed to accept that this is gonna keep happening? I want to do something about it.

[He hates feeling helpless like this. He hates knowing that every night, one way or the other, his friends are risking getting hurt...]

[twostringsonebow]

What can we do, Silver? It's not like we can just stroll up to them and tell them to knock it off.

[... As nice as that would be.]

Don't get me wrong, I certainly would like to put them in their place, to give back all they've troubled us with, it's an injustice I hate having to allow simply because there's nothing I can do to prevent it, but the fact is that there's not much we can do besides what amounts to damage control.

[elevelvetor]

It's true, and I know you hate to hear it, Silver.

[ Given he dislikes how she handles her own affairs. ]

Until we find a way to fix this once and for all, however that may be, we'll simply have to deal with what we can, and that's not a crime at all.