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[the_adjutant]

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[wearenumberone]

Riza. Status report.

[ as terse as always, one. ]

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[the_adjutant]

I'm alive, if that's what you mean.

It's touching to know you care, though.

[wearenumberone]

Is it so strange to worry?
You are one of the few mostly competent people in this city, after all.

Are you safe?
What of your commanding officer?

[the_adjutant]

I'm fine. I haven't heard from him since that whole mess began, though. Communications weren't exactly working.

[wearenumberone]

I see. You have my sympathies.
And what of a contract?
You arrived just over two months ago, I believe. Have you made progress on that front?

[the_adjutant]

I have a contract. I actually found a Submissive right before everything went sideways.

Very lovely girl named Mey-Rin.

[wearenumberone]

Is that so?
Congratulations are in order, then.
Has she remained near you?

[the_adjutant]

We're sharing my apartment.

Fortunately she was in the Up when I was stuck in the down so there was someone to watch Black Hayate.

And how have you been?

[wearenumberone]

Your dog, yes?
At least no harm came to it.

I was stuck, much the same as you. And I acted as necessary to protect my Submissive and myself.
I would prefer not to go into such impersonal details over these devices. Surely you understand.

[the_adjutant]

My dog, yes.

I understand perfectly. It was a trying time for everyone, I think.

[wearenumberone]

Yes, it was. We appear to be on the same page.

At some point, I confess, I would like to meet with you once more.
We have some things to discuss, after all.

[the_adjutant]

I'd be happy to get together again now that things have calmed down.

[wearenumberone]

Is that so?
I will admit, someone being happy to hear from me is a new feeling.

[the_adjutant]

Calling you kind might be stretching the truth, but you helped me. You've given me good advice. Of course I wouldn't be unhappy to hear from you, One.

[wearenumberone]

If only more saw things as you do.
My sister's disciple is gone, now, and I doubt he would have minced words were I not nearby.
And my eldest sister largely only seeks me out to throw insults my way.

It is still better than our old ways, I will admit.

[the_adjutant]

What were those old ways, if I can ask?

[wearenumberone]

Her attempts at sororicide.
Or filicide, depending on how you wish to view it.

[the_adjutant]

Not a very close relationship then. I'm sorry.

[wearenumberone]

It is what it is. There is no sense in regretting such things.

Besides, my hands were hardly clean in the matter.
She may have been the one to kill our sisters.
But I sat by and watched as she did.

[the_adjutant]

It sounds complicated.

[ Complicated familial relationships. She's all too familiar with those. ]

[wearenumberone]

Does it?
It is the only life I have known, after all.

[the_adjutant]

When something drives that sort of divide in a family, it usually is in my experience.

[wearenumberone]

And if your very birth is the divide?
What could be more simple than that?

[the_adjutant]

I see.

I don't know that I have an answer for you on that one.

[wearenumberone]

No matter. In truth, none is required.
We ended each others' lives, and we have come to a truce in this new world.
All that matters are the actions taken from this point out.

Do you drink tea?