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[sullenstallion]

Maybe this is a bad time?

[When Dylas starts the audio feed, he’s already not sure if he wants to do this. What a follows is a long sigh before he actually begins speaking in earnest.]

Hey. I know everyone’s sick. It’s pretty bad. I’m sure you all know some of the symptoms, but maybe you guys have been feeling something else, too? Something happened to me last month. Er, has been...happening.

[There’s a long, uncomfortable pause. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.]

I mean, maybe your body is changing. Doing things it couldn’t before. Maybe...being more sensitive. Maybe you’re noticing something different about yourself that you didn’t before? Something that doesn’t line up with the symptoms? If that happens, you should talk to the Orbiters. [Another pause. Ugh. He hates doing this, seriously.] They can apparently change our bodies without asking. They, uh. Can give us things that weren’t there before.

[He’s clearly not wanting to go into any details. Or maybe it’s not clear. He’s just this deep, masculine voice who sounds sort of confused about how to address large groups.]

So if you start feeling weird outside of the sickness or weren’t sick before, it might be that your body is going through new changes.

[Another long pause.]

It’s not puberty. I’ve already done that.

Comments

[competing]

[ ...what.

no, seriously, what. ]

Are we talking about the same Keith here?

[sullenstallion]

Er...yeah. I think so. He's the one you interrupted.

[That was rude by the way?]

He's pretty handsy. And after meeting me, he ran off to buy something for me to wear so I just left.

[competing]

[ technically, he interrupted you, but. details. ]

Yeeeah, that doesn't sound like the Keith I know. I'm probably missing some details here.

Sorry for the late reply!

[sullenstallion]

Hey. I'm not lying about that. Or any of this. If I wanted to lie to you, I'd try a lot harder than this.

np!

[competing]

I didn't say you were lying, man, I just said it sounds like I'm missing some details.

Why did he have to buy something for you to wear? Were you naked or something?

[sullenstallion]

[Dylas growls.]

I wasn't naked around him! [He sounds disgusted at the thot thought, naturally.] He wanted to buy me a headscarf! But I left. All my clothes were still on!

[competing]

Ohhhhh. Okay, see, you should have just said that from the start. You had me thinking something lewd was going on!

[sullenstallion]

[Gods. He wants to retch.]

No! I'm not into that kind of thing! [Being lewd, that is. When will a horse learn to love?] Maybe that's what he was thinking, but don't drag me into that!

[competing]

[ lance nearly laughs out loud lfmskdmsl ]

Dude, I can 100% guarantee that wasn't what he was thinking.

[sullenstallion]

Good! I don't want to be the subject of someone's weird thoughts! If he ever acts weird around me again, I'll kick his ass for real.

[He huffs. His ears flick a little as he calms himself down from that little outburst. Lewdness is not appreciated here.]

You his friend or something?

[competing]

[ now maybe lance should be a little more reactive to someone threatening keith like that... but he's also pretty sure keith wouldn't necessarily dislike a fight. he's been stir-crazy, after all. in need of a good training partner. ]

Something like that. [ he sounds both amused and fond. ] We're both paladins or pilots for the same team from back home.

I'm also his boyfriend.

[sullenstallion]

[Boyfriend?? Well, okay. That's not really all that interesting to Dylas, except:]

Oh, thank gods. He can think lewd thoughts about you instead.

[He's so relieved.]

[competing]

[ lance honestly doesn't know whether to feel amused or insulted. ]

Uh. Thanks, I guess.

—Wait what do you mean "instead"?! We just finished talking about how he wasn't thinking those kinda things about you anyway!

[sullenstallion]

[Both, probably, not that Dylas really cares. He's just sort of relieved Keith is taken.]

You're welcome.

[See? He has manners sometimes.]

I didn't know that until just now! Don't think about that. Everything worked out in the end.

[competing]

[ did it tho... ]

I guess...............

[ but alright fair. lance would rather not think about it. ]

So what's your new ability anyway?

[sullenstallion]

[And Dylas would rather not talk about! Great minds, or something like that.]

I can smell things better than I could before. It's the same for my hearing, too. If you ever wanted to hear things you didn't want to hear or smell things people dropped on the ground, then it's great.

[But from his tone he clearly did not want either of those things.]

[competing]

Yikes, that's tough... Do you have any way to control it?

[sullenstallion]

A little. I had to get to used to it. It was a pain for a while, but I'm more or less over it now. I thought I was sick when it kicked in, so the love of your life gave me a hand.

[competing]

[ lance ain't even fazed by that wording... ]

Aww. Yeah, he's real sweet once you get past all that grump.

[ maybe that's why you two don't get along... too similar... ]

Glad to hear you're doing better though! Man, that would've freaked me out at first...

[sullenstallion]

['Gross,' he thinks. It takes considerable effort not to say that same word out loud.]

Yeah. That's great. [He doesn't. Really care? But instead of sounding emotionless like he usually does, he sounds a little confused? Why is this guy sounding so nice now?] Nothing like that is able to keep me down. But, uh...yeah. It was pretty freaky. I started to notice right in the marketplace, too.

[Lots of sounds and scents there.]

[competing]

[ dylas you literally brought it up yourself??? stop this ]

Well, it's a good thing you had some help while you were there. Even if it didn't really work out all that well, in the end...

[ because he's nice??? do you even people, dylas. ]

[sullenstallion]

[look...lance...he can bring things up and then immediately hate them. horses aren't very smart like that. and he doesn't people, like, at all. furries and space princesses only.]

It's all in the past. I hadn't thought about it much since, but I guess looking back on things Keith wasn't completely unhelpful.

[Maybe he was a bit too rude to Keith, even? Dylas feels a little bad now.]

[competing]

[ that's great, lance is a furry!




wait. ]

Eh, he doesn't tend to have the best bedside manner... [ meaning maybe keith had been a little rude in turn? who's to say. lance wouldn't be surprised, even if he does love the guy, smh. ] But I can say, 100%, that even if it doesn't really seem like it, he's always trying to help out.

[sullenstallion]

[Get in, loser, we're going fursuit shopping.]

You think really highly of him. I guess that's not surprising. [He's never thought this way. Ever. But Dylas is a little jealous. He wonders if anyone has ever had this much faith in him before.] I should probably clear up the whole pants thing, huh?

[competing]

[ sweats aggressively ]

I mean... if you want to. [ there is a pointed pause. they seem to have settled into a fairly cordial conversation now, and lance is not entirely in any rush to ruin it.

still... ]

I know I'd appreciate it.