AUDIENCE: ALEX

[retellers]

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[chanteuser]

...


I was about to say a lot less things on fire, but... um.

[ sorry about her boyfriend. ]

[retellers]

Burning it down should've been a solution.

[ they hate ghosts. ]

[chanteuser]

Would it have stuck? The inn got burned out last time and wasn't that okay...?

[ valid though. ]

[retellers]

It'd have gotten better afterwards. Perfect solution.

[ no. ]

[chanteuser]

But we got to resolve some of the issues the ghosts had, didn’t we?

And I’m guessing you’re not actually engaged anymore.

[retellers]

I wasn't engaged!

[ STOP ]

[chanteuser]

Congratulations on not being engaged.

[retellers]

[ they want. to die. ]

... It worked out. That's what matters.

[chanteuser]

[ not until they've eaten that stew ]

It did. [ she'll even nod at the stew ] I'll leave you to eat that.

[ ... although: ]

If I asked this time to see under the mask, would you say yes?

[retellers]

[ ah. they seem taken aback ]

... That again?

[chanteuser]

Only if you want to.

But it's nice to talk to you all face to face rather than... like this. Really.

[retellers]

[ wolf looks up at the bubbles, contemplative, because this is still memshare week and i forgot ]

... So long as we don't know who we are, these masks are just as much our identity as anything else.

[chanteuser]

[ 😭😭😭😭 ]

That's not true. I know that much.

1/2

[retellers]

It's who we are now. That's what it represents.

[ they sigh ]

But alright. If you're that curious.

[retellers]

[ he takes off the hood and mask! anna voice: cloud strife is here ] Satisfied? [ in all his glowy eyed, pretty boy glory ]

[chanteuser]

[ YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ]

[ she genuinely looks delighted. ]

I feel like I should say it's nice to meet you, at this point.

[retellers]

We've been meeting. [ he just looks? tired? ] Don't make a big deal out of it.

[chanteuser]

[ SHE WANTS TO LAUGH. WOLF. YOU'RE ADORABLE. ]

[ she does not laugh though. ]

I won't, I won't. I'm good at keeping secrets.

Thank you, though. For showing me.

[retellers]

... Yeah, well... Not like it tells you anything about me except my hair color. [ false, glowy eyes. ]

[chanteuser]

-- And your eyes! They're very pretty.

[ glowy... ]

Don't worry about it too much. It's just... nice to see the face under there. Regardless of how you see your role, all of you are still people under all that.

[retellers]

[ dskljgds? he just. blinks, looking a little flustered ] ... Yeah. I know. I just... Take the mask off, and I'm still Wolf. That's all I've got right now.

[chanteuser]

Your face isn't a mask, Wolf. [ there's a difference. ]

... Have you remembered anything since the first week here?

[retellers]

... Nothing much. Know I'm an ex-SOLDIER turned mercenary. [ no one else can hear the caps so ]

[chanteuser]

That's... more than nothing. Military turned mercenary is... kinda common, I think. I know some people who have been mercenaries.

[retellers]

Pretty popular career path, yeah. It doesn't tell me that much about myself. 'Xcept that getting paid is more trouble than its worth.