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[pushfall]

Huh. I guess that's true. I've been thinking of trying to find it. Everyone keeps telling me the gardens are so amazing and I need to spend more time there yada yada. Wanna come?

[darkart]

If you'd like me to. I've spent a lot of time there.

[pushfall]

Is it amazing.

[darkart]

It's a garden.

[pushfall]

My mom had a garden, once. A fat raccoon ate all of her tomatoes. Anyway, I thought it would be something interesting to do, maybe after the recon thing. So. Yeah. I'll get in touch.

[darkart]

All right.

[pushfall]

Did your jump go okay this time around?

[darkart]

Is it that obvious?

[pushfall]

[ She kind of stares at the screen because it had been more of a cursory investigation than actually calling him out but - it is, now that he mentions it. ]

Maybe a little.

[darkart]

[ William's already pried. Extensively. He doesn't know how to gauge it anymore. ]

Most of it's not my business to discuss.

[pushfall]

It's affected you in some way. That more or less makes it your business.

[darkart]

Just more people who hate me. I've been thinking about what will happen if those who've been kind of me here get caught in inevitable crossfire.

[pushfall]

That isn't your responsibility. People take that onto their own shoulders. I can't speak up for anyone else who's been kind to you but, you know how I feel about that. I care about you. Screw everyone else.

[darkart]

Isn't it my responsibility to be honest?

[pushfall]

I didn't say that, just... the whole crossfire thing. It might boil over tomorrow, and it might never boil over but it's not your fault if someone gets caught up when and if it does. People can make their own decisions.

[darkart]

I don't know what to say.

[ Instead of just not replying. Because he thinks that would piss her off. ]

[pushfall]

[ She recognizes that as progress, and she's thankful for it. ]

I know. You don't have to have anything to say. I get it. I think someone just needs to make you realize that you don't constantly have to take everything onto your own shoulders, alright? If that's my one job while I'm here then I'll annoy you with it until I'm forced to stop.

[darkart]

I do have to.

[ No really that is-- pretty much exactly his life, anymore. ]

[pushfall]

[ God he sounds like Peter. She wants to simultaneously bash his head against a wall and put a helmet on him. ]

Why?

[darkart]

I'm not in prison.

[pushfall]

You mean that in regards to your position in the war at home? What we talked about before?

[darkart]

Yes.

There isn't anything else for me. It's not sad. It's the result of choices I made.

[pushfall]

That doesn't mean you owe yourself any more misery than you're already putting on your own shoulders. I'm not going to argue with you about the kind of person I think you are and the kind of person you think you are, and I'm not going to tell you that maybe there are things here that can be something else, because that's just going to eventually come off as delaying the inevitable or being in some kind of denial. I do know that everything happens for a reason.

[darkart]

I hear that phrase most often at funerals.

[pushfall]

Stop it.