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[ wash doesn't immediately respond on waking up, because he had other things to take care of: but also, because. this was a lot. so much. the rabbit pictures help to weigh the scale down more on the "endearing" side of things, but it is still kind of alarming to someone like wash, who still doesn't think of kazu as someone he knows particularly well or anything.

this series of messages probably gives him a good idea what kind of guy he is, though.

he gets around to responding after he's spent a couple of days just -- pulling himself together. ]

Trixx looks like she's growing up well.

[ yep that's it he'll wait for you to expend your energy a bit on a reply before he gets into it ok ]

She is. Perhaps you should come see for yourself.

Are you alright? You were out a long time.

Almost two months. I'm fine, all things considered.

I appreciate all the concern, Kazu.

[ though it's... it's a lot. there was a lot of concern ]

There are a lot of things to consider, yes. If you need any help readjusting, just ask.

...honestly, I was prepared for you to be unhappy.

Unhappy at what?

All of this?

[ just like an attached screenshot of the PILE OF MESSAGES ]

Yes. That.

You would not be the first to tell me to back off.

Spread out over the course of two months, that's fine. A lot for me to get all at once, but I've dealt with worse.

That's not an invitation.

Understood.

But my offers still stand.

I'll let you know if I want to take any of them up, Kazu.

You were really worried about me, huh?

It didn't keep me up at night or anything, these comas apparently happen all the time. But yes, I had some concerns. Especially surrounding how long it lasted.

Two months is long for one of these, but I think any amount of coma is too much coma for people to just randomly fall into.

Agreed. My worry was just more directed towards how you'd handle waking up. Two months of lost time is significant, especially in a place where the state of things and people changes so quickly.

And I know what it's like to be gone and feel like at best no one cares. You'd never mentioned any other friends or partners, so I didn't want you to wake up thinking that.

Are you like this with everyone?

Depends on what you mean by 'this' but I guess so?

Anyone who I know isn't a total asshole, anyway.

It's not like sending a message once a week was any sort of burden, especially considering you'd recently done me a significant favor.

Worrying about whether or not they'd wake up feeling alone is more than most people would afford a relative stranger.

I'm not complaining. You'd know if I was.

[ he is, if nothing else, pretty good at setting boundaries. and maybe if it'd been more frequent than once a week he might have drawn a line, but kazu struck a good enough balance between "wow this is a lot" and "TOO MUCH". ]

Okay. That's reassuring.

If I ever do bother you, please just tell me immediately? Pursuing friendships is kind of new and I'm learning that I don't pick up hints very well.

[ you're literally a puppy. ]

If you do something I don't like I won't be shy about telling you.

So this is pursuing friendship? You know I'm not great at that, either.

Good.

What do you mean, you're not great at it?

You may not have noticed, but I am not what most people would call a people person.

I didn't, but I also admit my standards may be

different.

How so?

Generally speaking people have been so much nicer here that it seemed suspicious to us at first. I know now there are some jerks around, but overwhelmingly everyone I met when I first arrived was either friendly or helpful to the point it was weird.

You're less outgoing, but still not unfriendly.

I don't have to be an asshole to not be a people person.

I still think it's suspicious. The way people around here are. But from where I'm standing it looks like you and yours have made yourselves quite at home already.

I'm not claiming you are, really. Just saying you aren't actively hostile, which puts you ahead of most people from our home even if not all the way to outgoing.

...not only do I have no choice in adapting, but the folks I've begun to trust have proven themselves. And who is mine besides Val, anyway?

No choice is just a matter of how stubborn you are.

[ and wash might slightly be talking to himself here, because among the many things he's starting to come to a grips with since waking up, is that south is here starting to settle in and build something for herself again, and wash is. uh. not doing that. because he's a horrifically stubborn bastard who still hasn't quite accepted that he has to live here. ]

How bad was home?

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