PIRATE TEAM, ASSEMBLE /conch

[redmarksthespot]

[This is the five of you all getting the same terse phone call:] Come to the house. We have to talk.

[... after which the nice captain hangs up before you can object and sits and waits. :|]

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[redmarksthespot]

Joe is one of us.

[yellowhasthechest]

Who did something stupid.

[redmarksthespot]

[and he's the first?]

[yellowhasthechest]

[You dying on me is a whole different story.]

[redmarksthespot]

So we get past it.

[yellowhasthechest]

Eventually, maybe.

[redmarksthespot]

I don't care how long it takes you. But he won't come back until you let him.

[yellowhasthechest]

I'm not stopping him from doing anything. I'm just not in the habit of chasing after people who decide to leave. It tends to bite you on the ass.

[redmarksthespot]

I'm not letting go of any of you.

[yellowhasthechest]

It's not you I don't trust.

[redmarksthespot]

[:|]

[yellowhasthechest]

[You didn't think this would be easy, did you?]

[redmarksthespot]

[and we wonder why I am so pissy]

[yellowhasthechest]

I've already told you: if he wants to fix it, he'll fix it himself. If not, he can just go on not giving a damn.

[redmarksthespot]

What the hell is that ...

[yellowhasthechest]

[That's me not being a fan of this weird unsettled shit happening in my chest all the time and never wanting it to happen again, that's what it is.]

[redmarksthespot]

You think I like this shit? You think any of this is good for any of us?

[yellowhasthechest]

You think I do?

[redmarksthespot]

You're not the only one.

[yellowhasthechest]

I didn't say I was. But I'm not the one who created the problem, I'm just the only one it looks like who isn't reacting in the most convenient way.

[redmarksthespot]

This damn problem isn't his fault.

[yellowhasthechest]

Then tell me whose fault it is that he made the decision to run off to the worst possible place. Tell me whose fault it is that Ahim thinks we owe Basco for "taking care" of Joe.

And "this place" is not an answer, because the last time I checked, this place messes with everyone, but the rest of us never did that.

[redmarksthespot]

Ah. We didn't kill one of our own, either.

[yellowhasthechest]

Even if I did, I wouldn't run and hide in a place like that.

[I would literally rather chew my own arm off.]

[redmarksthespot]

Where?