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Easy

What about your friends? Those who keep you grounded, the only who give solidity to all your abstractions...

Challenging

Reminders of a world worth returning to.

Heroic

A broken instrument.

Medium

He'll have a talk with the vendors later today. A firm one.

Medium

Your friend is here.

Medium

Not part of his job description. A caring gesture.

Medium

They farmed out your asset, your friend, to some trouserless infant?

Medium

Maybe it was company he wanted. A chance to palm away the frost and peer into the old days. For some, that counts as 'urgent'.

Medium

It would have. It would have brought you running. If they'd bothered to tell you.

Easy

Tempo called for help. For cavalry. For you.

Medium

He already fears the worst. You don't need to get into the uglier details.

Medium

He doesn't know what he's asking for. Not really.

Easy

Tell him to not go into that office himself. He shouldn't see.

Easy

He doesn't have to like it, but his nights will be kinder for it.

Easy

He's trying to be polite and not point out you fucked it on your own terms.

Medium

Behind the words, you feel your old asset's ghost, smiling.

Medium

There's a hollow in his voice, one you doubt was there just weeks ago.

Formidable

He misses her dearly.

Easy

A tinge of grief flutters past his face.

Easy

Not that he minds.

Medium

His jacket's been patched over many times. Storied.

Medium

They're not sure how they feel about that.

Medium

And what could be worse than that?

Easy

So this headphones guy acknowledges the regency of Ultra Violeta.

Medium

They think you're uncool. Maybe someone at the bazaar can help you teen up your style.

Medium

So assured of their connection to her that their own emotional experience has assimilated that of their idol.

Trivial

A hysterical edge to her voice. This is an irreconcilable dissonance.

Medium

Typical adolescent obfuscation. This boast will fall apart the second you apply pressure.

Medium

Her friend had a genuine spiritual experience, and she never has. Every time it's mentioned, it drives her mad.

Medium

She thinks her loyalty will buy her intimacy.

Medium

Her voice wobbles, poor thing.

Legendary

They think they're in on the joke that they are. The irony is becoming them.

Legendary

Is it earnest, or ironic? Your head swims.

Medium

Maybe little pale lies draw her attention to the pitch black one at the core of this relationship.

Easy

Spoken as if he's talking to a stranger's child.

Medium

So this is what it's like to have a pod. It's nice.

Medium

It's so nice having a friend.

Challenging

His smile is warm, knowing.

Medium

A touch of desperation, there.

Medium

Too polite to allow himself to accept what you've said.

Legendary

You can't shake the feeling that he knows something you don't.

Medium

He has felt it too.

Easy

If only. There's plenty of past shame too.

Easy

You're as in denial as the doctor is.

Medium

Surely the idea of that man having any rights left is obscene.

Medium

It's not like he's in any state to fact-check you.

Medium

It means something to Dr Hugo -- perhaps a lot. He would be sad to see it go.

Medium

It means something -- perhaps a lot -- to whoever put it here. They would be sad to see it go.

Medium

Would probably snatch it and wear it as its own.

Challenging

She has a purpose.