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Mockingbird

Please forgive me for missing your message. I'll be right with you.

The Other Me

He isn't that sorry.

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text: un: Mr. Cold Feet

[anyprice]

[ okay he's procrastinated on this long enough, he's rolled around and tried to pretend it wasnt gonna happen but hugo's here and he sees him on the app and there's no avoiding it JUST get it over with just say hi Mockingbird isnt evil it cant hurt you ]

Haha, heeeyyyyyy friend, look at you! On our lovely little app and everything--! Isn't that just--well. You know. It's nice having your pals in one place, and all of that.

Lovely little trinket you sent me today! Please tell me it was in good will and you didn't just fast-send me a curse to my nice new house.
I haven't had a house in years you know. I'd be pret-ty upset if you cursed my first and only good one.

[myriadeclipse]

You put down roots here? An extravagant estate with a husband and pets. You’ve become downright domestic, Mr. Cold Feet. I’m happy to hear about your growth and emotional fulfillment.

I’m hurt you would look at my gift with such hostility. I come to this new city and give my old friend a token of my appreciation and you question it to my face. I thought we had something special. You break my heart, Sampo.

[anyprice]

Whoa there, hey now, I MAY have put down roots but I am NOT married. I am free as the birds in the sky, thank you very much, I just so happen to have reconnected with someone I knew as a teen, you know! We're. Anyway! I don't want to hear about 'emotional fulfillment' from you! I was on the run for years, I think I'm allowed to be happy to have a front door now that I know the Black Order won't bust in and clap me in chains... hhhgh.

Anyway! Don't act as if you're actually so insulted! If I hand delivered a pretty trinket to you, the first thing you'd do is wash it off in case it had itching powder on it and you know it.

...
How long have you been in Kaisou, anyway? Last I knew, you were on the other side of the map.

[myriadeclipse]

Even in text, you sound so tense. You sure know how to make a guy feel loved. I bet I've been on your mind the whole time since that gift arrived.

I agree. You deserve to have a loving partner and a front door mat like everyone else. I believe in America it also comes with HOA's and picnics in the park, yes? Retirement where you waste your days making ships in bottles and sitting on porches in rocking chairs.

And of course I would check. That's why I never answered if it's cursed or not. Isn't the puzzle what's fun for you, Darling Sampo?

I haven't been here long and don't plan on putting down roots. Your little sandbox is safe.

[anyprice]

Who's tense! I'm not tense. I've never been tense a day in my life, do you even know me! [ he is the most skittish man in the world and everyone who knows him knows it. ] Also, you're hurting MY heart by saying I'd do something as insane as live in a HOA. Or spend any amount of time in a rocking chair. I'm still young, especially at heart! I'm a man who needs action, adventure, the thrill of a chase, the fun of finding a good score in a hidden trove!

...

It's definitely cursed. It's so cursed, I knew it. I just got done being ultra-cursed, you know. I'm totally not scared of whatever this curse is.

And hey, look, you SAY that? But that's what I said too. And now here I am. This city is... weird, my friend. So, so weird.

[myriadeclipse]

I'm not judging. Moving from world renown thief and scammer to wizened mentor would be the perfect ending to your story, My Anxious Myrtille.

You were 'ultra-cursed'? I get it now. The fear you hold of a repeat performance is why you messaged me today. How bad was it? I'm so sorry for scaring you, darling. Need me to hold your hand and go with you to get it cleared of it's magic? I'll even bring you back before curfew, so your beloved doesn't worry.

I do say that because I already have a ticket for Cabo where I will be spending three or so weeks. You know how business is.

[anyprice]

Anxious? Who's anxious! I'm never anxious, and seriously, are you ever gonna give me a cuter nickname? I deserve a cuter nickname.

....
And I'm not! I'm not scared of you! Who'd be scared to hear from an old friend! I was just--you know! It's like when you get a call from your parents completely unprompted! You start making up scenarios in your head about why its happening before it turns out to be TOTALLY MUNDANE, you know?


And I never go home before curfew. I'm a free man now. The Black Order isn't even after me anymore, you know?
Which, I guess I still owe you a few thanks for the last time you helped me out, so... since you're in the city now...

[myriadeclipse]

Cute like what, Aubergine?

You have a very different interpretation of 'helped you out' than I do. Running through Graz because they thought that we were partners or worse. Scrambling across streets and rooftops because just running into you on my way to Vienna was 'too much of a coincidence' for their taste.

They kept lighting portions of the street up like a bloody pinball machine but yes. I helped you get off free as a bird.

Since I'm here, what?

[anyprice]

idk like 'mon petit' or something like that!! it's way cuter than aubergine ))):

And look! it's not MY fault they jumped to conclusions, okay? Even though I told them numerous times that I'd be bad for their business and I'm not a fighter and a lover instead--it's not my fault they totally misinterpreted that as you know. meaning I had a partner.
But hey! you got away mostly unscathed and such, right? The Order didn't have a reason to stay on your ass for years. So I'd count you a pret-ty lucky guy!

and iunno. maybe I owe you a drink or a nice dinner for saving my butt, now that you're here. It's the least I could do--besides, you said yourself you're not staaaaying here, right? so what's the harm in showing you around a bit?~

[myriadeclipse]

Nothing about you is 'petit', mon cher. It's like trying to think of a great dane as a lapdog.

I would almost believe you if you didn't take advantage of that confusion. I also would not call what happened to me 'lucky'. It's true The Black Order had no reason to come after me myself, but that didn't mean they didn't do exactly that regardless.

[ Granted, that was because he kept being seen with runaways. THAT much was absolutely his own fault. ]

But. Fine. If you wish to meet and make nice now that you've turned over a new leaf, I will meet you.

[anyprice]

I meaaaaannn, true, I'm a pretty big fella, but that comes from years of exercising and beating feet. You can't keep your nose clean if you don't at least keep up with cardio, you know~?

And listen. For real, for real--maybe I did take advantage of a little confusion here and there, but you always made it out just fine too, right? Like. If you didn't make for a great distraction what, three, maybe six times--who knows what'd have happened!

Sampo Koski does NOT look good clapped in irons, and after all the sus stuff I heard about the old Order Operators? Ol' Sampo might have gotten chopped up to pieces if they'd caught me! Wouldn't that weigh heavier on your heart??


And good. See, we can play nice! Especially given I'm a free man and you know. --And listen. Talk about new leaves all you want, I'm still the clever businessman I always have been. But. You won't get into trouble hanging out around me anymore! ...I mean, unless you want there to be trouble. Gehehe.

I'll shoot you a message sometime when I'm free and we can get drinks! On me, I swear.

[myriadeclipse]

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[ Look. He could say something, and he was probably saying many "somethings" out loud. Some of those things probably went along the avenue of wondering how many times a person has to be used as 'a distraction' for the other party to understand he does not like being consumed by someone elses spontaneous scripts!

And that offer at the end. How dare he even breathe such a thing! He knows exactly what would happen, and he doesn't trust Sampo not to try and fleece him AGAIN. He will just... have to wait until Sampo messages him again.

In the meantime, He'll busy himself with thinking up a new thing to call Sampo that continued to not be cute. ]