deercountry | (closed) january catchall

[ The decision to go explore when a lot of people set out to do so is easy for Ange to make. Considering she has given up her life she had back home - if one could call that a life, anyway - for a life in this place, she's determined to find out as much about the world they have found themselves in as possible. Especially now there's another desire constantly running through her veins, a heightened insistence that she has to keep the people around her safe.

And part of that is being fully aware of all possible threats around them.

It helps when the alternative is spending the month attending the parties at the Snake Den. Sure, she'll do that one or twice with people like Ruby and Break, but after how utterly sociable it made her last year, Ange is fine with keeping it to a pair of visits at best and then setting out to explore instead.

Not that she's just going to leave like that though. Ruby is coming with her, so there's no need for her to sit down with her wife about it, but there is one person she absolutely has to visit before going.

Especially when she has no clue how long of a journey it'll be, and-- well, she'll miss Break in the meantime. Even when she can just (hopefully) call him even across that distance.

It's how Ange ended up at Break's place, sitting at the table while the man is serving them some tea with snacks. As Break is pouring the tea, Ange has already grabbed hold of a cookie, chewing on a tiny bite before swallowing and speaking up, already having brought up the topic of her traveling to the other city and now adding: ]

Anyway, hopefully it shouldn't be a ridiculously young journey. If it feels like we're not really going anywhere, I'll just turn around and head back instead.

Mm. Good.

[Always the sensible kid in the midst of wild protagonist nonsense, Ange. It's one of the things Break most appreciates about her. Of course he still worries — he's frowning somewhat as he finishes pouring the tea and sits down across from her — but after knowing her so long, he knows Ange doesn't get involved in Trench's shenanigans for the sake of adventure and excitement. Rather, it's because she's nosy and likes to investigate things, and she actually knows stupid when she sees it.]

I'd heard a little about it before. Truthfully, I did think of going along too, for a moment or three. This is exactly the sort of business I'd have followed after at home, when I was the only adult available to chase the kids properly. But with so many who have so much experience attending and my blood powers still not quite under control, I imagine it's best that I remain here.

[Break is still getting scolded off and on by various loved ones for collapsing after his little stunt at the Sleeper Farm a couple months ago. In all the ensuing bickering it's become very clear that he will not hesitate to overdo it that much again if he feels a need, and this is just what he's like. The only sure way to prevent it is to keep him out of that sort of situation in the first place.

Is it the scolding that has him seeing sense now? Is it the nagging sense of guilt that maybe he should be kind enough to stop making everyone around him worry, and the desire to keep them safe by not allowing himself to become a liability? Sure, but mostly it's the memory of how mortifying it was when he collapsed at Sablier, far from home, and Gil had to go carrying him around in front of everybody. He has this horrible mental image of Ruby or somebody going around with his unconscious body slung casually over one shoulder in the middle of some abandoned horror city, and quite frankly if that ever happened he would probably have to squid himself and go back to the ocean where no one could look at him.

Priorities.]

[ Ange seems to quietly ponder his words for a moment, but then she dips her head into a nod. ]

That does seem like the best idea.

[ Not that she'd stop him if he did want to come along, mind you. After all, Ange would be there as well, and she wouldn't feel as fussy about it if she knew that she'd be there to help look after him if something did happen. And though there's a faint fussiness about leaving him here in the city and being so far away from it, that's more due to the sense of intense protectiveness over everyone she knows that's been nagging her for a while now more so than any logical reason.

This city ought to be safer, after all. Sure, Trench still has some dangers, but Break has proven that he can deal with those. Ange trusts him enough to deal with those, and to be alright once she returns here. ]

Ruby and I will be going together, anyway. So we'll be able to keep an eye on each other.

[ Sure, they may be young, people who technically have only just left their teenage years - but it's not like they're weak, or inexperienced with this stuff. Ange knows Break knows as much as well, which is why she knows she can let it be left unsaid, instead silently understood between them as she grabs her cup of tea, holding it between both of her hands to warm them up a little. ]

I'll make sure to call you too, as long as the Omnis keep working over that distance. [ There's never any telling. ] Because I..

[ ...

She's not going to say 'would miss you otherwise', even though it's the truth.

You can't make her!! Nuh-uh!! ]

.. I want to keep you updated.

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