89. [Video/Action for travel group]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[A short while after the singing wild Pokemon and egg presents had died down, a rather unfortunate discovery was made upon dialing a number she'd been meaning to dial ever since Claudia Wolf and Kaito Kuroba had disappeared from Johto.]

[Already on the road, the weather's mild enough (even with the wind picking up) that Heather decided that was pretty much a good time to pocket her Valentine's Day present and just head off for a walk. Because lord knows, she needs one.]

[It's not the first time Johto has given everyone the gift of a precious little egg, but it is the first time that Heather's found herself resenting it.]

[The video feed pops on, focused in on a tiny, pale yellow little egg hardly bigger than a chicken's, nestled in the palm of Heather's hand as dry grass goes past underfoot.]</sub>



It would be so easy to just... crush it.

Comments

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

It always still hurts. I don't think there's anything anyone can do to make it not expect to stop caring, and that hurts in a different way. All you can really do is try and cover it with other people until it's not so raw any more.

Sorry...

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_{[There's a sort of quake in her voice.]}

I know. I know.

I know.

That's what I've been doing.

That's what I've been doing ever since the first fucking time someone I cared about disappeared, and I KNOW that's how you handle it, but I can't. I can't. Right now.

I can't keep doing this.

_{[She can, and she WILL, and she knows that, but right now... thinking about doing it indefinitely just hurts too much.]}

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Winces a little because oh man, he knows that pain. He knows it so well...]]

I wish there were something I could do...

[Video]

[foolishwren]

_[Flatly.]

That's the thing. There's nothing anybody can do.

Sympathy, disgust.... none of it makes any fuckin' difference.

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

Did you want a visit? Maybe something to help you not think of it so much....?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

... No.

No, I don't think that would be a good idea.

_{[What she wants is to take her anger out on something, and while Bakura's probably a better target than an EGG... it's still not a great thing to encourage.]</sub.}

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

[[a small nod]] If your sure....

If there's anything that might help distract that you can think of that I can help with... just let me know, okay?

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Sure. Fine.

<sub>[It's terse, but... she can't think of anything. This-- this issue, not just the individual disappearances-- is not something that she can be distracted from. At least not without getting angry in a different direction, and she'd rather that direction not be Bakura.]

[Being angry at Bakura is like drop-kicking a tiny unicorn.]</sub>