[network] Event: Long & Lost [NIGHT 217]

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it's been so long between the words we spoke
will you be there up on the shore, I hope

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[mrcreamsicles]

This sock thing for my tail. I've been getting by wrapping it up in this curtain I found early, but it's kind of annoying compared to something specifically made for it, you know? I figure I can swap to using the curtain like a cape for my wings. The feathers keep from from... freezing...

[His voice trails off just after the slide of another viewing window. He swallows thickly, then manages,]

I found Tifa.

[heroproceeding]

[ For his... tail. Well, that's a new one if he's ever heard one, but well. He's heard stranger things at this point, so he takes it pretty well in stride with a hum and a nod that can't be seen. Is about to say something more but then... Well, then... ]

...I see. [ There's a soft touch to his tone. No matter how divided they'd been as far as ShinRa went, it hadn't changed the fact that he'd considered her a friend if not a distant one as time had gone on and they'd fallen out of contact. She was tough and strong, he'd reasoned. Had braved facing Sephiroth, too, after all. He doesn't say anything more for a minute or two. ]

Knowing her, she didn't take things lying down. [ Didn't and she's not gone. He keeps needing to remind himself of that. Steph confirmed it. She did.

Still doesn't make him feel any less sick knowing how many people are barely hanging in there these days. ]

[mrcreamsicles]

Didn't know she was gone.

[It's a kind of quiet shock to his voice.]

Obit must have gone up after I died the last time. She... I didn't know her well, but I got these gloves from her. [An audible breath.] I didn't get to pay her back.

... Gimme a few minutes. I'll check the rest of these and get pictures for the records.

[heroproceeding]

I don't think she would have minded either way. [ Zack hums softly. ] I knew her from my world. We traveled together here for a while.

[ Before they'd split off, but he'd thought she'd be safe. She'd been with friends for a while since. But it seems it doesn't matter who you travel with or what you do, does it. Not in this place. ]

..Anyway, take your time. Not like I'm going anywhere. You.. want me to send you an update of the list afterward?

[ In case he dies, too, might be too morbid to say. But the more people holding onto collected information to share, the better, right? ]

[mrcreamsicles]

[It's a short stretch before he answers again, the intervening moments spent peering into the remaining drawers. Once that's done...]

Looks like Tifa is the only new one. Still kinda feel guilty I couldn't hold up my end, even if you said she wouldn't mind. I only talked to her a couple times, but she seemed really nice, you know?

[It's more than he meant to say, but at least it's nothing bad.]

I'll take a copy, sure. Can't hurt to have around.

[heroproceeding]

[ Nothing bad, no. Even if it still hurts, better to speak well of the people lost than hurt from it, right? Or try to. ]

She was, yeah..

But- yeah. Alright. I'll send it to you soon then. Might as well give myself something to do in the meantime. Maybe it'll help deal with... this whole thing.

[ Or not at all considering the hot water he's going to be in, but. Can't say he didn't attempt to be hopeful, right? ]

[mrcreamsicles]

[Davesprite sighs, soft and brief.]

Sometimes all you can do here is keep working toward a goal. But I'm gonna hang up and let you go before this gets any more depressing and we say something we don't want to.

[He's said too much of that already elsewhere.]

Thanks, still, for keeping track of this stuff. I'll talk to you later.

[heroproceeding]

[ Sometimes all you can do is work towards something.. That sounds familiar. Zack nods even if he can't see it. ]

Yeah.. Not a problem. I'll catch you later, man.

[ And with that, he'll hang up for now. He's going to have his hands full shortly anyway. ]