Train Meeting

[awakenerd]

Who: You
When: Day 23 morning
Where: The Lounge

[So you've all been invited via Chain to an "Informal Train-wide Meeting". Rean has a few things to say and then the rest of the post can be discussing things among each other really.]

Comments

[awakenerd]

[Hey don't turn it back on me]

Want to tell me a little about us? You said we were teachers.

[crimeson]

Sure. We taught at a branch campus for a prestigious Erebonian military school.

[awakenerd]

Yeah? And we were friends? Tell me about that.

[crimeson]

Umm...

[hm. considering.]

...Can I just say in advance it's kinda weird telling your friend how you became friends? It's not a situation I normally run into.

[awakenerd]

Ah... I guess so. Sorry.

[crimeson]

It's fine, just... new.

We probably should have been enemies, but it's impossible to hold a grudge against you.

[awakenerd]

...? Enemies? Why?

[He can't imagine making enemies with this person?]

[crimeson]

Your country annexed mine and you were pretty instrumental in that. But... you didn't want to be, and you were so sad about it, it was really hard to be upset with you once we actually met.

[awakenerd]

[Oh. Yikes.]

Maybe you're just a really nice guy...

[crimeson]

I think it can be both.

[awakenerd]

Hm. Well the really nice guy part is pretty much confirmed already.

[crimeson]

And I already know about the rest.

[awakenerd]

The rest?

[crimeson]

[shakes his head, just reaching over to ruffle his hair.]

How you were kind of a sad puppy about the whole mess, with your own circumstances.

[awakenerd]

A... A sad puppy... I see....

[He's embarrassed now. He's apparently not allowed dignity?]

[crimeson]

It's all good. I'm occasionally also a sad dog, so I get it.

[awakenerd]

Mm... well, if you're ever sad I would be happy to cheer you up.

[crimeson]

[I'VE JUST BEEN MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD]

...Thanks, man.

[awakenerd]

Like when you make an expression like that...

[crimeson]

That-- really sounded like a pickup line. But knowing you I figure it wasn't.

[awakenerd]

It... did? I... I didn't realize. Sorry.

[He still doesn't know why it sounded like a pickup.]

[crimeson]

Yeah, I know.

[RUFFLES.]

[awakenerd]

...Did you want me to be hitting on you..?

[Nah that can't be.]

[crimeson]

...Wow, that's like, the most perceptive you've ever managed to be on this front, probably.

Yeah.

[awakenerd]

Hey! Are you saying I'm not per--

...


What?

[What?]

R-really?

[Behold. Cool immortal Rean.]