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[legal_eagle]

[Today, the message is brief - and Sonya's back to her usual excessive brightness, a deep contrast to the last time she sent out a message.]

So what are everyone's New Year's resolutions? I'm a big proponent of publicly announcing what you intend to do so that later, people can publicly shame you if you don't keep to it. And yeah, okay, no one bust in with "We've been chatting about them elsewhere on the network," I don't stalk you, you shameless egotists, so I haven't heard, and I totally want to know.

Anyway, my number one resolution this year is to quit smoking. Again. And to learn how to cook something - anyone have any suggestions as to where you should start when you're learning to cook?

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[quackery]

Well, I guess it depends! There's stuff they could probably be necessary for.

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[ringthenoise]

Moppin' up after that clusterfuck musta been a real treat.

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[jailbreaks]

Eggs, riceballs, anything that just requires a little heat. Maybe even a salad so you get used to the balance needed in recipes. I mean, if you can't even make a decent salad you might just not have the aptitude to cook. Better that you realize that then than try to poison your comrades thinking you're the best cook ever.

[His bff is the world's worst cook. He's going to be extra blunt about this, sorry.]

[individualist]

You said it! Not me.

Joking aside, I trust you entered the new year well enough.

[aka how was christmas, he just doesn't want to say it directly.]

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[givetheslip]

I was a steward of the Knights Templar.

[Was being the key word. Officially, she's unemployed.]

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[legal_eagle]

A laugh and a half. Fortunately, I'm pretty fabulously competent.

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[legal_eagle]

Are you thinking of anything in particular?

voice;

[quackery]

Hm? No, not really! It just doesn't seem like the type of thing that could never be necessary, I guess. But that's just my opinion.

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[vaccination]

And you want to stop? Aww. [She sounds so disappointed!]

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[legal_eagle]

That's a bit mean, isn't it?

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[gevurah]

Does it really count as cooking?

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[vaccination]

And that was me toning it down. Oops.

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[ringthenoise]

Does the fabulously competent lady have a name?

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[legal_eagle]

Okay. Well, if you want to talk in a civilized manner ever, you know where to find me, okay, kid?

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[vaccination]

[It's a good thing Ellie really doesn't know where to find her. Jesse may be gone, but that doesn't mean Ellie's still not angry on his behalf.]

Yeah, sure.

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[legal_eagle]

[And Sonya would leave it there, flipping off the little asshole all the while (bless the lack of video, so easy to sound like you're smiling when you're really flipping the double bird), but...Well - ]

You doing okay?

[She's pretty sure that the kid's been kept in the dark about Jesse. And she wants to fucking stab Goodman in the eye because of that.]

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[legal_eagle]

Sonya.

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[vaccination]

[He went home, is what she was told. Ellie wants to hope it's better than this shithole, with these people, but he'd said it wasn't all that different, didn't he? Welp. Nothing Ellie can do about that but move on and keep in mind what happened on the moon.]

Super. What are you trying to get at now?

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[ringthenoise]

[A smile]

Sonya, eh? I dig it.

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[legal_eagle]

[A bit dryly:]

Trying to get at how you're doing, mostly. Hence the dastardly subterfuge of my question.

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[vaccination]

Why? Just because Jesse's gone doesn't mean we're on anything even close to good terms.

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[legal_eagle]

You're aware that there's a difference between me asking if you're doing okay and me writing your name down in my best friends book, right?

But you're okay with him having gone?

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[vaccination]

[Rolling her eyes so hard.]

People come and go all the time. Of course I'm fine.

[knightofcourage]

There are. Why?

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[legal_eagle]

[And that confirms this shitty kid doesn't know.

Sonya finds herself suddenly really, really, really fucking mad. Her voice gets just a little bit more strained.]

Well, good to hear you've got a positive attitude.