[he wants to say you're only sixteen! how the hell do you have that many awful memories?! how could bad choices get you that far that quickly? ... but whenever he starts typing out the words, they grow too heavy, too stark, too inconsiderate.]
[the pause stretches a few seconds too long. finally,]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org You just are an old man
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org I heard Gale's a newbie so maybe if you brought him a welcoming gift he'd like you more
I'm not sure about that... [ who even knows. Ed hasn't met Gale. Maybe he's nice. Ed just works on the assumptions that the instructors are assholes unless proven otherwise. ]
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
Don't you have some training to do too? Any news on what it is?
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Can you climb trees? Can you jump??? How high can you jump? How heavy are they???? Are you really clumsy? Or clunky?
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Can you rope animals to ride on????
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What are you going on about??? Slow down!
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
I'll be fine. My brother and I survived a month alone on a remote island when we were kids.
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
And nobody actually rides on wild animals ...
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Cool people ride on wild animals
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
It'd be better to ride a wild animal then have to restal and kill it, just saying
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
But wait why were you and your brother on an island for a month?? Were you shiprecked?
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Wild animals don't usually let people ride them. Did you learn everything you know from a storybook?
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
No, but we
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
Nevermind. I hate remembering that time.
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[uh.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
You a lot of those times, huh
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
I'm not sure if your life's exciting or if you just make that many bad choices
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No one knows more about making bad choices than I do.
[ he's edward "i've spent a third of my life fixing a bad choice and i still have no idea how to proceed" elric. ]
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
... But this isn't one of them
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FROM: Hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
How old are you actually?
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16. Are you going to tell me I sound like an old man again??
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No
[he wants to say you're only sixteen! how the hell do you have that many awful memories?! how could bad choices get you that far that quickly? ... but whenever he starts typing out the words, they grow too heavy, too stark, too inconsiderate.]
[the pause stretches a few seconds too long. finally,]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
You just are an old man
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
I heard Gale's a newbie so maybe if you brought him a welcoming gift he'd like you more
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FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
If I'm an old man, then you're a five year old.[
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
Are you asking me to kiss his ass
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[that requires remembering they're useful. or could be handy for finding fun facts about your friends.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
I might seem like it compared to you!
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
And no??? Just be nice?? Use your manners????
Do you have manners...??
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I'll see if he deserves manners first. [ ah what a 40-year old brat ]
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That isn't at all what I just said
Be nice!!! He's here to help you! Kind of
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I'm not sure about that... [ who even knows. Ed hasn't met Gale. Maybe he's nice. Ed just works on the assumptions that the instructors are assholes unless proven otherwise. ]
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
Don't you have some training to do too? Any news on what it is?
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FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Some
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
It'll be fine
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Did you even try to ask about yours or are you going in blind for fun?
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It's too late now. Anyway, they probably won't even tell me. You know how the instructors are like.
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Like what?? Warriorhead's always been straight with me
I mean, they're still instructors
It'd be stupid if they didn't help at least a little
[but that's also because you don't ask very intensive questions, Hinata...]
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What? He's straight with you? He always seems to answer me in riddles!
[ though ed asks the hard-hitting questions ......
either way WHOA!! FAVORITISM MUCH
-- not that he's so surprised, really, since he's never been nice to Warriorhead either. ]
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[yeah Ed um.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
About what???
I could ask for you if you still want to know
And not mess up in getting answers