voice.

[theguideless]

[feed starts at the tail end of a harsh exhale.

a beat.]

Where're...Chloe and...Er-eri...[huff. another pause. his voice gets grumblier, agitated:] My friends. Here. Why am I even back.

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[effective]

It wasn't real.

[theguideless]

Yes, it was.

Voice;

[woahwoahawkward]

[...well, he half-monitored the disaster on Anora's post -- so he knows better than to bring up that it wasn't real.]

Are you hurt?

[effective]

So those people, they all attacked you the first time you lived through that?

[has_a_cult]

If you kept better track of where you were going, you might not have this problem.

[sunlitcrown]

None of that was real. It was just a memory.

voice; /slams in here!!

[undeadarmies]

I'm here.

[theguideless]

She didn—[sucking in a sharp breath. her voice is...and with the arrows and...

accusing:] You shot at her.

[theguideless]

No.

[...wait.

erhh. hrn.]

Not anymore.

[theguideless]

[biting back on his agitation (failing):] I'm trying.

[theguideless]

[talking over her second statement, angry:] It wasn't. You weren't there and you don't know.

[effective]

[She is glaring, not that you can see it]

She was trying to kill you. You're welcome!

[theguideless]

[beat.

hh.]

And...not hurt. Right?

[theguideless]

That was a mistake. It's a hunt! You didn't have to shoot her you messed everything up! All of you did.

[effective]

Okay, fine! Next time I'll just let whoever's attacking you kill you then, shall I?

[She's about to hang up, but then the memory of the boy leaping in front of the girl flashes into her mind. There's a significant pause, and a sigh.] Look, I tried to fix mine too. And it didn't work. You don't get second chances, that's how I know it wasn't real.

[theguideless]

[good, he thinks to the first. it's what he deserves anyway. and, reasonable or not, continuously being denied this thing he really wants is really not fun. talking over her talking:] It was what I wanted. Going back to fix my mistake. I asked them to let me go back and fix it and I was there and then everything went wrong because everyone else came and...[MESSED IT UP.] They didn't know! People don't just. Just walk in to hunts like that, they didn't know! Everything out there was supposed to die because that's how it's always been.

[undeadarmies]

Not really. [A short pause before she sighs.] I don't know, the whole thing was just weird. Messed up kind of weird. Like a psychological thriller.

[Mm.] I think I should be the one asking if you're okay, though.

[theguideless]

[no comment on psychological whatsits; just another thing he doesn't know.

he's still upset, but at least she's alive. he didn't screw up as supremely bad then.

a long pause. blankly:] I was home. Now I'm not.u

[Video]

[hornedomen]

Martin? Are you okay? We were never gone. It wasn’t our worlds it was fake.

[theguideless]

[an exhale.]

You're wrong.

[sacrificar]

You wanted to stay?

[theguideless]

[a lengthy pause.

does it even matter, he thinks, that she's...?]

I have to. To fix what I ruined. I could have...

[hornedomen]

I’m not. It looked real and I thought I was home, too. But everyone was different. They all attacked us for training.

[theguideless]

No. It was a mistake. You weren't supposed to be there.

[hornedomen]

None of us was supposed to be there. The machine was broken. It happened in everyone’s world.