♊ 21 ♊ [Text] [Back dated to within 30 minutes past 'dawn' on the 23rd]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*The handwriting is sloppy, but being written in the dark and by a shaking hand will do that.*

plea2e tell me you can read thii2.
anybody.
anybody plea2e tell me they can 2ee me, ii don't want two do thii2 agaiin, plea2e 2ay 2omethiing.

IB? where are you? 2tay where you are, ii don't know what happened, even the fake 2un wa2 gone.

Comments

[ghostly_stutter]

U-um. S-Sollux? Are you okay?

I can read what you wrote, if that helps.

[ghostly_stutter]

Great.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

maybe 2omeone wiill fiind you agaiin thii2 tiime.

[ghostly_stutter]

But... wh-what about you?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

what about me?

[ghostly_stutter]

Someone--someone needs to find you, too.

Do you--do you think I could leave this room?

[Did she even want to? Chloe had no idea what danger awaited her out there. In the dark.]

Maybe I c-can try to find you.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

NO.

no one need2 two come fiind me, II WIILL BE FIINE.

[ghostly_stutter]

...

A-at least keep talking to me, then. Or writing to me.

[Yeah, now she's doubly worried about you, Sollux.]

[thii2ii22tupiid]

why?

[ghostly_stutter]

Well, do you want to be alonein the dark with no one to talk to?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii don't miind iit.

*That's not entirely true, but talking to most people wouldn't help.*

[ghostly_stutter]

...

You don't mind it?

After panicking, now you suddenly d-don't mind it?

I--I do.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii don't have a choiice, do ii?

[ghostly_stutter]

Even then.

...I'm going to walk around a little. S-see if I can... find something.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

you won't.

[ghostly_stutter]

Won't find something, or won't be able to walk around?