Deerington Inbox

[incandescentfaith]

Hello, you've reached Rei Hino.
I'm sorry to have missed you.

Please leave a message and I'll contact you as I am able.

Comments

[phaseflex]

yes
beams of meat

amara
is this not louis

[incandescentfaith]

This is Rei.
I'm sorry I thought it was a prank call.

[phaseflex]

not at all
i guess i accidentally hit your name?

[incandescentfaith]

Something screwy is going on with the network.

Who is this?

[phaseflex]

amara
nice to meet you?

[incandescentfaith]

Same to you.

Been here for very long?

[phaseflex]

a couple months
long enough, really

what about you?

[incandescentfaith]

Now? A month.

I was here before for nine.

[phaseflex]

"before"?

[incandescentfaith]

I left and returned.

[phaseflex]

i wasn't aware that was possible

what was it like, waking back up?

[incandescentfaith]

I didn't remember this place.

I just went about my life for three whole, boring, ordinary days. I cleaned my house...

And then I woke up in Deerington last month and found a year had passed here.

[phaseflex]

fucked up
but not unlike a dream, as this is meant to be

[incandescentfaith]

Yep.
I tend to remember my dreams, but this one is a special little hell.

[phaseflex]

did you reconnect with anyone?

[incandescentfaith]

You mean people I knew from before I left?
Yes.

Chloe, Diarmuid, Pidge, Lance, Shiro, and Allura. The rest of the people I was close to are mostly gone, thankfully.

[phaseflex]

i can't work out if that's luck or not

do i say
i'm sorry?
or
i'm glad you still have them?

ah, reality-warping gets so confusing!

[incandescentfaith]

It's fine.

Better they got to move on, but it's more comfortable for me that I still know people.

[phaseflex]

a double-edged sword
but the handle
is also a sword




also it's on fire
and you are on fire

[incandescentfaith]

Sounds about right.

How about you?
How long have you been in our little slice of paradise?

[phaseflex]

since january
this is only my second month in the actual town, though
the last two months were
elsewhere

[incandescentfaith]

The Titanic and an undersea city?

[phaseflex]

yeah, that bullshit
didn't know how much you knew about it

[incandescentfaith]

Chloe and Lance explained it to me when I came back. Seems awful.

[phaseflex]

i'm only sorry for those who suffered
it's good to be back on land, at least