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[wrackful]

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@goatface

[ghostface]

johnny
you got about five seconds to answer me before i tear this fuckin house apart

[wrackful]

Stop following me. You're not real.

text;

[medals]

meet me @ lake in 20

[wrackful]

If you're planning on drowning me, I want it on record that I'd prefer something quicker.

text eventually @koby

[kobes]

[but before the message comes -- a sort of mental nudge, a tap on the shoulder, close enough to touch, but no more invasive than that. immediately:]

Murphy? Was that you?

[wrackful]

[There's a sense of awareness, acknowledgement, quicker than some might manage. As if he's used to that kind of contact, even if he wasn't expecting it.]

Be kind of awkward if I said no, wouldn't it? You just knocked on some random guy's brain.

@eddie

[guitarpicks]

i'm gonna guess the answer and ask anyway
are you okay?
where are you right now?

[wrackful]

I'm fine.

[But, like Eddie says, he already knows the answer. So, more honestly:]

I'll be fine. I'm with Danny, at Roza's.

@TRICKY🦊

[endow]

hiya murphy 👋 i saw you at the accusations. more like heard really, you sure had a lot to say!

can youuu tell me more about the world you were in before?

[wrackful]

Hi, person I don't know with a seriously trustworthy username. Sure. But you'll need to tell me why, first.

[medals]

•]••´º´•» J E M «•´º´••[• has invited you to join chat FAMILY CONFERENCE 2.0

@blackrock00

[temporicide]

So you know
I'm not voting for Devon. I'll tell the others next

Can you please tell me I'm not fucking up by doing this.
Unless it's lying. Then tell me I'm fucking up.

[wrackful]

Depends what you don't want to be fucking up.

[A beat, two, because he's really fucking tired. But that isn't Roza's fault, so:]

Look, I'm not going to pretend Jem isn't right that filling the second cage will keep him out of it. But the only reason I'm ever putting anyone in a cage is because I have to.

What you do is your choice. Don't listen to her, me, or Danny. Just listen to you.

@blackrock00

[temporicide]

Things will happen quickly from now on
Like avalanches. Slow and slow until there's a big crush at the end.

[ A hefty pause, and: ]

Sorry
He's not doing well, so neither am I. But I'll be OK. You, too?

[wrackful]

Yeah, I've had a whole load of avalanches try to crush me, and I'm still here. I'll be fine.

[His own pause, long. He's never really shared anything of what he and Danny are with anyone. He's kept it tucked in close. Called it no one else's business, called it keeping it safe. But the truth is he's never had the space for it, even with the people who might understand.

Now, for once, it feels like he does. But the first piece is this: failure.]

I know he's not there right now. Inside. I don't know how make it better. Usually just wait it out. That probably makes me a pretty crappy brother, huh?

But if you need me to do anything, for you, just say.

[guitarpicks]

is it too early for another check in?

( someone's no longer dead or a demon!!!! )

[wrackful]

I don't know, seems like it might be a little late. Me checking in on you, I mean. Making sure you weren't planning anything stupid.

@hawkeye - text - after secret santa

[purpura]

wanna go shoot arrows?

:)

[wrackful]

That'd be me watching you shoot arrows, outside, in the cold. I think 'no'. Thanks.

@koby misfire, nsfw

[kobes]

Okay, fine. I'll be here waiting.

Just like this: [mp3 attachment]

All alone 😊

1/2

[wrackful]

[It takes him a moment, trying to see where the message makes sense with the last he'd sent, before he realises it doesn't. It really doesn't.]

Think you sent that to the wrong person, Koby.

text — un: guccibug (misfire)

[highlyemotional]

What gift do you get for the guy you're having sex with but refuse to admit you have any feelings for? Decorative shot glasses?

[wrackful]

Okay, definitely not who you meant to send this to, but: depends on why you don't want to admit it. I mean, if it's because he's an asshole, don't get him anything. Easy.

@NIGHTEYES → MISFIRE

[transfuse]

Your card was the Nine of Cups, reversed.

It isn't yours if you want it. Sometimes wanting is the trap.

[wrackful]

[What the fuck.]

I can't tell if this is another wrong number or if I'm replying to some new fortune telling app they've made that is way too damn accurate.

[ text ] » @chernayavdova

[obmanchivyy]

[ welcome to another round of misfires! ]

am I misplacing things or are you borrowing shit from my room like it's a bonus library?

[wrackful]

Third option: the house is screwing with you.

Not that I'm the person you meant to send this to, so yeah, they could be taking things. But it's probably the house.

— text

[guitarpicks]

am i still in the doghouse?

[wrackful]

I don't know, man. Not to kink shame or anything, but I don't really do doghouses.

❄️

[temporicide]

[ Left at an inconspicuous (read: sneaky) time throughout the day: a handmade hat, of traditional function, fur-lined, but somewhat modernized, a red Le Creuset braiser, and lastly,

We say sometimes 'good that you are', at home. That's what I wanted to tell you. Good that you are, good that you're someone I've met here, for as messy as this place is. I think we have some of the same bruises, you know? But I like the way that your brain works and I would never have gotten through October without you.

But we should do some fun things, too. In a place with all this luxury, they say experiences are more valuable than things. At an undetermined time I will be taking you on an adventure.

Roza
P.S. If we're still here next year, we should take a family Christmas photo. Bruce Quillis could be in it. Think about it. ]

@koby | prom tipsy text

[kobes]

i got lost in your hallway trying to show you im sparkly

[nothing since the mistletoe, not a thing, and then this? okay.]

fix your
halls
murphy
jeez

[wrackful]

[Woken by his phone buzzing, squinting at the screen in the dark. Reading the message. Reading it again. Rubbing his eyes, reading it a third time.

Nope, still doesn't make sense.]

Sure, I'll get right on that. You good?

@shadowheart

[nightsung]

Hello. Stephen told me you might need a ticket out of bronze. I have one, if you’d like it.

[wrackful]

Stephen as in Stephen Strange?