WHY DIDNT YOU MENTION THSI SOONER WE NEED TO WE NEED TO LOOK RIGHT NOW LETS GO
[ yeah, he's busting out of the makeshift shelter/hotel/miscellaneous retreat he's sequestered himself in thus far. the most horrific thing in this convo thus far ... ]
it's like doing porn.... even if you do it only 1nce you're always a porn star
i'm coming!!!!! i'll check the apartments you check the gardens i don't know how these things are programmed but she might be hanging out in one of the trees text haru, too. just to make sure
[ a beat, then - ]
use the flashlight on your cerevice
[ one can never be too careful about these things, especially when makoto's in panic mode. ]
i did!!!! i'm looking rin i'm scared i've never let her out of the house this place is so big and she'd get lost even if she made it out and she was a present and if i lost her i don't know what i'd do
[ and there's a strangled interval of radio silence until makoto invariably texts rin again. ]
we'll find her, stop worrying i only went through the first building, still have a few more to go if we don't find her we can put a message on the network do you have a pic of her??
[ if it was his own cat, rin might have been similarly frazzled... thankfully captaining has taught him a bit about crisis control. ]
i'm the personification of that one shaking head emote rn
i have one here but i'll need to go through my album for the rest do you want them all now?
[ they're at a juxtaposition already, composed against frenetic, but makoto doesn't need to point out the obvious now that the cool air has done a number in sobering him (somewhat). ]
i went through the apts a while earlier and i didn't see her at that time i'll keep looking so you should go get some rest
[ makoto can't exactly ignore the acrid bite of guilt stinging at his conscience, but no need to bother haru (again) at such a late hour. if things go south, he'll ask them both for help in the morning. ]
shaking with abject adoration..... dw i get this a lot
nah that's good for now did she have a serial # or anything???? wondering if she had, i don't know gps or something?? tech's pretty advanced here did haru have any ideas?
[ honestly, makoto. rin doesn't give any further notice to makoto's attempt to continue the search alone. something about friendship, remember that? ]
[ of course, the serial number is nothing more than gibberish to rin, who stares at it for a moment before giving up. better to spend his energy searching the apartments. ]
where'd you buy her? instruction manual?? i'm gonna text haru if you don't
[ it's as much of a threat as rin makes it sound. ]
anyway stop apologizing just treat me to steak later
[ win/win. since his arrival, he hasn't spent as much time with makoto or haru as he would have liked. ]
[ he's ducking into one of the last apartment buildings that hasn't been rendered inaccessible by the flood, clicking away from makoto's text to check on haru instead, but a flicker of movement distracts him.
there's a break of a good twenty minutes before rin responds. ]
hold up found her however you've been training her??? you gotta teach me those tricks
[ and attached is a picture of haku with her front paws resting on a severed tail of what rin had immediately recognized as one of the dolphins that had invaded with the flood. her tail is a blurry curve in the air. rin's light isn't strong enough to illuminate much of the room, but it's enough to see that her flanks are streaked with greenish blood. ]
in the interim, makoto surveyed the entire span of the gardens at least two times over, short of crawling up the trees themselves. his cerevice is down to 15% battery and while he isn't consoled with leaving the fate of his cat to the various denizens of the night, he's in the middle of dialing rin to force-compel him to go catch some shut-eye when he receives the notif and —
... makoto nearly drops his cerevice down a storm drain in the process attempting to type actual words. ]
rsjfsr ?????????????????? i is that blood
[ did his cat just viscerally disembowel one of those shark-dolphins from hell or nah ....................... ]
[ it's likely that she just found the severed tail. one hopes...
all the same, rin does his best to clean the blood off her flank, knowing that makoto will freak out at the sight (like he already has) if rin shows up with a bloody cat]
meet you back at home
[ more like "home", but. you know what they say about home being where the heart is, and since both makoto and haru and there...
and he'll be fussing over rin and the killer cat the minute they return, thanks. hopefully they can circumvent waking haru up in the process, but haku likes him best (obviously) so who knows. rin stays with them, regardless.
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good riddance. i don't associate with bing users
probably a good thing there isn't
he'd take a dolphin as his bf instead
[ if makoto thought that sharing his secret with rin would allow him to escape the requisite teasing, he was sorely mistaken. ]
this is bullying
rin's such a #poser. tactical ignorance only goes so far. ]
you might be able to find one in a cybuddy shop
do you think it'd be hard to maintain? i think finding one for you would be nice too
well-deserved, though
a boyfriend or a dolphin???
[ speaking of... ]
did your cat make it out of the flood okay
i used bing like oNE TIME also 1/2
[ smart aleck.
but all of that is sidelined for the sudden, soul-crushing realization rin presents him with at approximately 2 a.m. in the morning because wh — ]
i lied 2/3
done
WE NEED TO LOOK RIGHT NOW LETS GO
[ yeah, he's busting out of the makeshift shelter/hotel/miscellaneous retreat he's sequestered himself in thus far. the most horrific thing in this convo thus far ... ]
it's like doing porn.... even if you do it only 1nce you're always a porn star
you seriously FORGOT about your cat?????
wow
[ he expected better of you, makoto... ]
where did you last see her??
WHEN did you last see her??? did you check with haru
destroys u and obliterates this convo from memory
[ newsflash: it's hard to type when he's sprinting aimlessly through the dark. ]
i didn't forget i was
preoccupied. a lot's been on my mind lately
[ makoto's just about ready to shoot himself in the foot, equanimity broken for his poor calico. ]
at home. that was a while ago rin i
haru would have said something
ri n
[ help him?????????????? ]
you're welcome
you check the gardens
i don't know how these things are programmed but
she might be hanging out in one of the trees
text haru, too. just to make sure
[ a beat, then - ]
use the flashlight on your cerevice
[ one can never be too careful about these things, especially when makoto's in panic mode. ]
im so salty byE
rin i'm scared i've never let her out of the house
this place is so big and she'd get lost even if she made it out and
she was a present and if i lost her i don't know what i'd do
[ and there's a strangled interval of radio silence until makoto invariably texts rin again. ]
did you find her??
nahhhhh u love me
i only went through the first building, still have a few more to go
if we don't find her we can put a message on the network
do you have a pic of her??
[ if it was his own cat, rin might have been similarly frazzled... thankfully captaining has taught him a bit about crisis control. ]
i'm the personification of that one shaking head emote rn
do you want them all now?
[ they're at a juxtaposition already, composed against frenetic, but makoto doesn't need to point out the obvious now that the cool air has done a number in sobering him (somewhat). ]
i went through the apts a while earlier and i didn't see her at that time
i'll keep looking so you should go get some rest
[ makoto can't exactly ignore the acrid bite of guilt stinging at his conscience, but no need to bother haru (again) at such a late hour. if things go south, he'll ask them both for help in the morning. ]
shaking with abject adoration..... dw i get this a lot
did she have a serial # or anything????
wondering if she had, i don't know
gps or something?? tech's pretty advanced here
did haru have any ideas?
[ honestly, makoto. rin doesn't give any further notice to makoto's attempt to continue the search alone. something about friendship, remember that? ]
2nd building done, on my way to the 3rd
shameless
hold on i'll send you the details
[ and shortly afterwards, rin should receive the notif with a bunch of technobabble roughly passing for a serial code. ]
i don't want to bother haru
[ anyways, it's not so much disregard as it is sublimation. like rin said, makoto's the one who lost her to begin with. ]
i'm sorry for overreacting earlier
i really appreciate your help rin. thank you
no subject
where'd you buy her? instruction manual??
i'm gonna text haru if you don't
[ it's as much of a threat as rin makes it sound. ]
anyway stop apologizing
just treat me to steak later
[ win/win. since his arrival, he hasn't spent as much time with makoto or haru as he would have liked. ]
no subject
[ it's almost implicit, half-typing out you were there, remember before backspacing, continuing on without a discernible break. ]
i texted him earlier for something else
he's tired. just let him rest
[ this is like a cautionary tale with no moral, but makoto appreciates the sentiment. ]
sure. do you have a place in mind?
for later
no subject
there's a break of a good twenty minutes before rin responds. ]
hold up
found her
however you've been training her???
you gotta teach me those tricks
[ and attached is a picture of haku with her front paws resting on a severed tail of what rin had immediately recognized as one of the dolphins that had invaded with the flood. her tail is a blurry curve in the air. rin's light isn't strong enough to illuminate much of the room, but it's enough to see that her flanks are streaked with greenish blood. ]
no subject
in the interim, makoto surveyed the entire span of the gardens at least two times over, short of crawling up the trees themselves. his cerevice is down to 15% battery and while he isn't consoled with leaving the fate of his cat to the various denizens of the night, he's in the middle of dialing rin to force-compel him to go catch some shut-eye when he receives the notif and —
... makoto nearly drops his cerevice down a storm drain in the process attempting to type actual words. ]
rsjfsr
??????????????????
i
is that blood
[ did his cat just viscerally disembowel one of those shark-dolphins from hell or nah ....................... ]
no subject
[ it's likely that she just found the severed tail. one hopes...
all the same, rin does his best to clean the blood off her flank, knowing that makoto will freak out at the sight (like he already has) if rin shows up with a bloody cat]
meet you back at home
[ more like "home", but. you know what they say about home being where the heart is, and since both makoto and haru and there...
coughs.
anyway. ]
no subject
a
alright
i'll see you soon. be safe
[ makoto doesn't want to lose anyone else.
and he'll be fussing over rin and the killer cat the minute they return, thanks. hopefully they can circumvent waking haru up in the process, but haku likes him best (obviously) so who knows. rin stays with them, regardless.
that's all he could ever ask for. ]