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[...? Everything's been a little weird since she woke up again... was there something she was supposed to talk to Isaac about?]

Yes

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god i just

im so sorry

[He doesn't know if he can type it out, doesn't know if he can actually bring himself to send her the words. I killed you. She didn't even see him. She doesn't even know.]

are you ok?

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[Well now she's just even more confused.]

You dont have to apologize im ok

Im fine now the gods brought me back

[Did she worry him when she'd died...? Probably. She should have been more careful...]

1/3

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[Alright. Deep breath. He has to tell her, somehow. And while he normally might just go on and let everyone think that he's innocent... it just matters. As silly as it is, he values her friendship, and he doesn't want to lie to her.]

i was one of the people who

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i was

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its my fault. i... im the one who did that to you. that hurt you.

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[There's a very long pause after that.

What...?

She's reading the words, but... it just doesn't make sense.

Isaac? The one who... who did that to her?]

But you werent there

[Right? She never saw her killer, but... it couldn't have been Isaac. It just wasn't possible.]

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i dont remember it very well still

[He takes a deep breath and squeezes his eyes shut. It's harder than it should be.]

harry was one of us too. he lured you out. i have shadow power so i... i hit you from behind

hibiki i am so so sorry. i would do anything to take it back i dont know why i did it i just. i dont know. im sorry.

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[Harry, too?

No. No, no, no, no. This isn't how it's supposed to be. Both of them are her friends, they wouldn't have--

She tries once, twice, three times to write a message back. But in the end, all she can come up with is:]

why

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[He doesn't have to see or hear her to know what she's going through. That single word is all it takes to have him drowning again in his own guilt, and Isaac swallows hard and tries to answer, but he can't, because he doesn't fucking know.]

i dont... we werent ourselves. thiazi got into our heads. i dont remember a lot of it but it was dark and terrible like a nightmare except it wasnt. it wasnt about you she just wanted us to destroy everything we could.

i hurt a lot of people. i dont know what to do but i wanted you to know and to know that i would never have hurt you if i wasnt- i dont know. mind controlled

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Then it wasnt you

[She clings to that, because otherwise, she just can't conceive of it. The two kindhearted people she knows, doing something so... so cruel, so painful, so terrifying.

She refuses to believe in it.]

It wasnt you so it wasnt your fault

Thiazi did it

[It was Thiazi who did it. Not her friends. It was Thiazi.]

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im sorry. i cant believe i could even...

are you alright?

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Yes im healed and everything

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do you need anything? books or candy or- i dont know anything???

i want to make this right

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It wasnt your fault so you dont have to do anything

[She seems pretty adamant about it. No matter what, she just... can't come to accept that this was because of him.]

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im still going to- thats dumb to not blame me. im still going to make up for it.

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But it wasnt you

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as a friend then

let me do something nice for you because 'someone else' murdered you

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[Murdered...]

But i cant think of anything

[And it's true. It's hard to think about anything happy when you've just found out someone close to you was the very one who was forced to kill you.]

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well let me know if you do

how is the hamster?

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Ok

The hamsters ok

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good

the pet store is closed indefinitely but ill grab you a bunch of food and stuff ok? so you dont have to restock

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Its ok if you do that??

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well like i said the store is gonna be closed for awhile if it ever opens again. better than just letting it sit there

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If your sure i probly need more food now