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[allyourfeels]

You can send texts or videos, there's also a voice to text option if you don't like typing. I check the network pretty much every day, but I'm happier texting people one on one.

[ he holds his device so she can look at the screen and shows her where all the buttons are. ]

[sunmon]

Yeah. I've seen the videos. [ they had been depressing and disgruntling when she'd first arrived. ] How does that ... work? What I'm seeing, is it happening as I'm seeing it?

[allyourfeels]

It can be, but usually it's recorded. Like... pictures. Moving pictures.

[ he turns on video recording. ]

Right now it's recording. The numbers here are counting how long it's been, when you push the square it stops.

[ he stops recording. and then plays the video back. ]

[sunmon]

[ she watches the recording for only a moment. she's seen enough of them, but it's different to know that they're recorded in clips. ]

Everyone else seems much more comfortable than I am having conversations this way. [ she wrinkles her nose. the long pauses of saving and sending and waiting on a response puts her off. ]

[allyourfeels]

Honestly, I don't love videos. Or voice messages.

[ he plays the video back so alina can see how it's done. ]

I prefer texting but I reply to stuff in the same format I get it. If someone sends audio I send audio back because maybe they can't text for whatever reason.

[sunmon]

I prefer writing, too. [ she smiles. ] I can gather my thoughts.

[ but then she hands the device back over to him. ]

I hadn't thought about that. People not being able to. I guess if you're in a hurry ... [ she still doesn't go right to accessibility. but she breezes past it. ] Everyone's really ... open. Aren't they?

[allyourfeels]

I mean, not everyone. But there's not much of a point keeping some secrets, right?

[ like his empathy thing, keeping it a secret would've only hurt him. ]

Powers and stuff are so common here no one blinks twice.

[sunmon]

Not just with powers. With ... everything.

[ a lot of the posts on the network look to her like the kind of thing she'd only have put in a letter to mal. but everyone can read these letters. ]

Personal things. But I suppose when you've already seen everyone else without their underwear, what's left to hide? [ childhood trauma, she thinks pointedly. ]

[allyourfeels]

I mean, this place isn't big on privacy. If you got secrets they'll come out one way or another.

[ no one likes it, but caleb is completely resigned to it. ]

[sunmon]

Like with EROS?

[ people were blackmailed, seemingly at random. it didn't make much sense to her at the time. ]

[allyourfeels]

I mean, I think that was different. But yeah, and like, the city publishes profiles every so often, sometimes it's bullshit but sometimes it's legit?

[ it sucks but it's just One of Those Things. ]

[sunmon]

Oh, right. [ her nose crinkles. ] Those.

[ nothing on her dom-finder profile had been terribly personal or disarming, but she could think of a few embarrassing facts on others, now that she's putting thought towards it. alina is just a little too self-involved to notice that sort of thing without prompting. ]

Have you ever had something exposed like that?

[allyourfeels]

The last one published the empathy thing, which is fine because it's hardly a secret. And also that I may have killed a guy. [ which he is very much not okay with, but it's not like hiding it helps. ] Which is true. He wanted to hurt my boyfriend and I got angry.

[ angry is an understatement but he doesn't want to get into it. ]

On the bright side, I don't think I got any secrets left?

[sunmon]

I'm sorry. About your boyfriend.

[ she sets her device down on the table. ]

Is he alright?

[allyourfeels]

Yeah, he's safe. No idea about the other guy, I was gently removed while the adults talked about what to do. He was breathing though?

[sunmon]

If it's a choice between letting someone hurt someone else, and hurting them to stop them ...

[ alina hunches her shoulders a little. ]

I wouldn't blame you. Even if he weren't.

[ she thinks of the grisha lost on the sand skiff. thirty or forty people, and they'd died for nothing. the darkling and ivan had both survived, despite it all. ]

[allyourfeels]

Right, no one holds it against me. Which makes it pretty hard to blame myself.

[ he shrugs, there's nothing he can do about it from here anyway. ]

He wasn't like... murderer dangerous, I don't think. Just an asshole.

[sunmon]

Well, maybe this way he'll think twice about being an asshole next time.

[ alina is a little scary, admittedly. she doesn't seem entirely bothered by the fact that near-murder might be a lesson for this. at least, not given that it wasn't actual murder, and caleb seems aware that it was awful. ]

[allyourfeels]

[ despite this place and the blackmail and the murders, caleb still very much is at 'finds murder alarming'

he knows a lot of people who just shrug it off though. ]

I really appreciate that, but also remind me never to piss you off please.

[sunmon]

Oh, no, you don't have to worry about —

[ she realizes now that she's being scary. she holds up her hands in defense. ]

I wouldn't ... [ except, of course, that she had. ivan and the darkling had survived the skiff, but the others hadn't. so many dead grisha. just to free herself and mal. she lowers her hands. ] ... Sorry.

[allyourfeels]

[ there's clearly something there but caleb isn't about to go poking into someone's trauma uninvited, so he shrugs and smiles instead. ]

It's alright. I kinda like scary, it makes me feel safe.

[sunmon]

I know what you mean.

[ it's a tough admission. ]

But anyone who can make you feel safe by being scary can turn on you just as quickly. [ she shakes her head. ] I don't want to be that.

[allyourfeels]

I'm not sure I believe that. Or... I guess I don't want it to be true. Because I was scary, but I'd never hurt a friend.

[sunmon]

Depends on how you define friend, I guess.

[ is that mutable? surely the darkling justified it by presenting everything in opposition to him as a betrayal. alina had justified her actions in the fold the same way. ]

[allyourfeels]

Someone you trust and care about?

[ although, maybe it's naive of him. caleb's never had a terribly high stakes problem, while alina seems to be the... fate on the world in her hands kind. ]