52 // public text // just to be sure.

[40410]

Has anyone heard from Sofia Lamb?

She left the mansion about a week ago and I

[ ...want her back.
...miss her. ]

wondered if

[ ...he'd ever see her again. ]

it was temporary.

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[audio]

[exiled_torch]

I haven't. Sorry.

[audio]

[40410]

...Right.

[ He sounds a bit defeated. There's still that possibility that she's coming back, and he's trying to hold onto it, but optimism isn't one of his strongest skills. ]

Did - do you know her?

[audio]

[exiled_torch]

Sort of.

We spoke a few times.

[audio]

[40410]

At the clinic, or as friends?

[ He doesn't know why he's asking this. It's like picking at a scab.

His tone's a bit Inquisition, but that's not intentional, that's just what happens when he's worked up or... oh, okay, most of the time. ]

[reckless_eagle]

[Poland had to think for a while before he remembered who that was. A two-hundred year timeskip can muddle things in your head a bit.]

Like, not in ages, but we weren't super-close or anything to start with?

[40410]

[ The narration is impressed with his memory nonetheless. ]

Why not?

[ That had a hint of being confrontational. Some people get sad when they grieve; some get really ridiculously easily riled. And Poland came a hair's breadth too close to speaking ill of the dead. ]

[reckless_eagle]

[Poland frowns, trying to think, but doesn't rise to the confrontational tone in Alex's voice. Alex is a weird human kid, he's a nation who just occupied Moscow for shits and giggles, he's got nothing to be insecure about.]

I... totally can't remember. It's been, like centuries. I think we just didn't ever really hang out much?

[40410]

...

Centuries.

[ wat

This is where it becomes relevant that the mun realised Alex has not, in fact, learned about the countries thing. 'Poland' is just a nickname or whatever, right? ]