one (text) ♞ ❝stop right there, that's exactly where i lost it.❞

[curepotion]

Two questions.

If you can't control your power at first, how do you try to?

And if you don't have a power or magic... have you ever done something you regret?

Comments

[curepotion]

You know, you don't have to reply in text back. Switch to video if you want. I don't really mind.

1/3

[theguideless]

Alright if you want

[theguideless]

[right.

video.

that's...



















which button. oh no. I FORGOT.]

text -> video

[theguideless]

[SORRY MAN THIS IS TAKING A WHILE.

like five minutes or so.

he's still fussing and fretting over this stupid keyboard when his video function clicks on. he doesn't know it, because...because everything looks the same on his end.

he's muttering:] --n't know...how to...[a nasally sound. ruining everything again Marty.]

video (private); ... marty, never change. /giggling

[curepotion]

[ ... okay, he can't not switch now. so if he actually looks up, there's Riku with a slightly amused expression. ]

Are you okay?

he tries, man :(

[theguideless]

Oh-- [OH. voices and a face. Marty startles a bit, blinking a few times.

his face colors, embarrassed.]

Uh--yes, I'm. I'm fine. H-hello. Sorry, I was...[aHEM...]

he tried so hard and got so far but in the end he was a cutiepie. c:

[curepotion]

So you're not computer literate. Never would've guessed.

[theguideless]

[automatic mumble:] No, sir. [a beat, and he's staring and not quite realizing time is ticking. man. nothing ever makes sense. now there's a guy with white hair. is that normal. what is going on. hopefully he's not a...a dragon-thing, too. there's been too much of that.

oh right. tick tick tick. he needs to kill the silence.]

Uhm. How do you say it? [say what.] Your...your name, I mean.

[curepotion]

[ please don't ask if he dyes it. it'll lead to eyerolls.

a blink; how to say it...? ]

Ree-coo.

[theguideless]

[...]

Oh.

[man, that's lucky. he was totally going to go with rye-coo. ONE BULLET DODGED.]

Alright. [um.] Thank you.

[curepotion]

Uh, you're welcome.

What about yours?

[ maybe they say it completely differently from what he's used to-- ]

[theguideless]

...Martin. [simple enough.

slight pause.] Martin Darkov. [his accent gives his -ars a bit more emphasis, and a slight -koff at -kov.]

[curepotion]

... Dar-koff. [ a pause.

okay, now they can both be a bit awkward. ]

I guess I'll just call you Martin.

[theguideless]

Yes. That's fine.

[curepotion]

[ suddenly-- ]

You're not going to fight, are you?

[theguideless]

[a beat because woops gearchange.]

Uh-- fight who?

[curepotion]

Whoever they send us to fight. You're a diplomat, right?

[theguideless]

Ah, huh---[a flustered sound.] I don't know what that is, sorry. Uhm. But I think I'm fighting, if that's what has to happen...I, I mean, I'm working on it. But those...masked people are really strange. They didn't die when I...[making a face.] They're hard to understand, so I don't know yet...

[curepotion]

... [ wait hold up. ]

You couldn't destroy them?

[theguideless]

No, I only...[breath. in his exhale:] got them pinned for...a little bit. Then they chased us.

[curepotion]

Sounds like the guys that got me.

[ small deflate. ] My darkness didn't do much.