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[whatpenguin]

Uh...

Were there always so many floors? I got lost a little earlier... did I miss something big?

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make that both of us

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi doesn't even bother to hang up properly before she takes off running. Anyone she passes probably thinks she's a little hysterical, with laughing and crying at the same time, and nobody should really be capable of the high-pitched squealing sound she's making in the short interim. She stops just outside the library, wiping at her eyes a little, running her hands through her hair, and trying to make herself a little presentable, but all that's gone the moment she actually sees him.

The past month and a half has been absolutely awful, for the most part, and she fell apart pretty spectacularly for the better part of it. But when she starts running again, arms wide open, she's smiling as wide as she can, even through those happy tears.]

I'm falling apart all over the plaice, I'm sorry, I just missed you so much. Things have been just terribubble around here and I - do me a favor? Pinch me so I know I'm not just dreaming?

pretend that's not kidou -

[whatpenguin]

[He catches her easily holding her close for a second despite his confusion, before pulling away to do as she asked - giving her cheek a little, bemused pinch.]

Just what happened to get you so worked up like this, Feferi?

It's alright, of course... but I don't really understand.

[He just... dreamed all of what he saw of his world after all, right? He couldn't actually have been gone...]

who's kidou

[cullscuttlefish]

[That little pinch makes her giggle, and she finally relaxes, just a little. It's all right, she's not dreaming.

Explaining the rest of it wasn't going to be easy, but it needed to be done. She'd still rather do it sitting down, though, and she catches his hand in hers, finding a table nearby and taking a seat.]

I guess I should ask what the last fin you remember is, before - no. There's not much sense in trying to hold back a tidal wave, is there?

[She takes another long, deep breath.]

You've been gone from here for almost six weeks now. They had a grave down there with your name on it. I...I assumed the worst had happened, and I didn't take it too whale. But I managed to get myself back together, for the most part. That is, till...till the elevator. A bunch of us found the admin elevator had been left open. We couldn't not take the chance to explore what was down there.

It was worse than any of us could have imagined. I...