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[curvaceous]

Noted.

For what it's worth, I get that it's important to settle this Lily and Zelkova thing, but I care more about the real, living people caught in this shit situation, you know?

So I'm not mad because I want to be, or whatever. I'm mad because Hani's one of my closest friends, and I really don't want to see you like this, either. I don't want this game to ruin us, even if we're all kinda falling apart.

...But I get it. We're lost and confused. So, sorry for coming in here guns blazing, earlier.

[gluttoning]

What would you do if it did start to ruin us, Kara?

Would you do this again, but without apologizing? Let yourself be angry?

[curvaceous]

Why does it matter? Are you expecting me to fall to my knees and beg you for forgiveness?

I am sorry for coming at you so strongly without talking to you first, Barrett, but with the way you're talking to me now, it seems like you're just interested in continuing this argument.

If that's how this is going, I'm done here. Think whatever you want. Don't touch Hani again.

[gluttoning]

I'm not asking you to beg for anything.

I want to know if you'll keep getting mad. Even if things start to fall apart.

What kind of things are you going to do for Hani? Or for you? Anger fuels a lot, right?

I kind of wonder if this is how our dad felt. I hate it.

[curvaceous]

If that's how you see me, Barrett, as a mirror image of your father, I'm not going to speak to you anymore. Period.

[gluttoning]

Not you.

[curvaceous]

...Okay. Sorry, read that wrong.

But, my point still stands. Don't I have the right to be mad that a friend of mine punched my roommate in the shoulder so hard that they couldn't use it?

What are you hoping to accomplish right now? What's gotten into you?

[gluttoning]

Maybe. That's not what I'm asking.

I wonder how much more good could be done if there were more people who could just be just like you, Kara.

If we fought, would you feel better?

[curvaceous]

Good? Good? There's nothing good about me or anything I've done here, don't make me laugh.

I'm not gonna lie, you're seriously weirding me out right now, but I'm not going to fight you. Is that what you want?

[gluttoning]

You're getting vengeance for a friend that got hurt. That's good.

You're standing up for other people. That's good.

You're turning your bad emotions and making them work for you. It's good.

We talked about it once. At the church. I wonder if you remember.



Yes. No?

I don't know.

Something's got to be at fault for all this. Everything. Maybe it's me. But I can't fight myself.

[curvaceous]

Vengeance isn't it. It's not good. Don't say that it is, Barrett.

This isn't like you at all.





And yes.

I remember it well.

1/2

[gluttoning]

Huh.

I wonder why I said it that way. But it still feels like it fits. Right?




I'm glad. I'd hoped you would.

Even if you never came back, I wondered about you a lot. So I'm glad you're here. And I'm glad you're letting yourself be seen. Even when you're angry.

/2

[gluttoning]

[A pause.]

Sorry.

Sorry.

My head hurts. I'm not going to keep talking.

I won't touch Hani. Keep them away. Okay? I don't want to fight. But I do.

I'll feel better in the morning. I'm sure of it.

Goodnight, Kara.

[curvaceous]

[ There's a long, long delay before she responds. It probably comes long after Barrett's fallen asleep. ]

Goodnight.