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[hottest_shot]

Heyyyyyyyyy, you know who you've got, babe. Say what you've gotta say.

[A long pause.

Shuffling.

Cloth.

Clatter.


Another long pause.


The actual cacophony of Finch's dorm.

And if you haven't hung up YET:]

Saints! Is this still o-?

[BEEEEEEEEEP.]

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Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[Something bright and reassuring presses out his way, curious at that itch -- making as though to try and gentle it, perhaps]

I said I thought I had a good feeling.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[He BASKS in that reassurance, and a languid sort of fondness comes back, like a cat nudging a petting hand.]

You did. I- This is incredible. You feel this all the time?

[The itch, though? It doesn't gentle. It goes down deep, deep, into a certain nothing of Jesper's own.

Though oddly, the more he's doing THIS, the more it diffuses a little.]

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[How could anyone say no to a begging Jesper? Certainly Eddie can't, that reassurance settling in like a blanket, warm and fond]

[He leaves the itch be, for now, though he does keep an eye on it]

Oh, no. Mostly you got to get it started, like. It's a -- something you opt into, ya know?

Mostly.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[He goes a little boneless at that. Luckily, they're laying down anyway.

STILL-]

Mostly?

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[Reaching out to pet at him with a hand as well as emotions]

-- it just sort of kicks on when I'm touching Henry.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

You two seem close.

[There's a quiet sort of interest, maybe even a little ping of jealousy. But mostly something warm that blankets the sentiment.]

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[There's a soothing sort of warmth, to smooth down that jealousy]

We worked together, back home.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

And just that?

[Oh, he lets that emotional petting happen. It eases.]

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[The petting keeps up, steadying and easy]

We been fooling around some, since we got here.

He blushes real cute.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

He does. And is VERY handsome.

Little ... interesting in perspective but...

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

His family really had the bees, ya know?

And I don't think he got out much, when he was younger.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[Please know that all this has done is add Beekeeper Henry to the lore. Did they have apiaries AND textiles? Is honey that valuable??]

Or older, by the sound?

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Older too, I'd wager.

He ain't that street-smart, but he's real good with books and paperwork and things, and he could give the widow a run for her money, everything he knows about cults.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

[There's a sneaky sort of curiosity.]

Was he.. in one? Tell me he was in one. So much would make so much more sense.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Think he might've been.

Or -- his family was.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

... [That's a stomach drop]

Oh.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Yeah.

[Concern, low and thick and heavy]

Anyway -- I better not say nothing else.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

Yeah. I mean, I'll ask him and then just sit and be confused and slightly alarmed by the answers.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

[That concern hasn't abated; it's a little tangled, a low knot somewhere down deep]

Don't -- push too hard, yeah? If he don't want to say nothing.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

It's Finch. We DON'T ... usually at all.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

That sort of a thing, huh?

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

I think everyone's a bit of a minefield in their own way. Except me, of course.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

Sorry, chief. Your mines are just painted bright orange and yellow.

Re: Day 65, morning

[hottest_shot]

... Why orange and yellow, outside of great colors for my skin tone.

Note: This is not me accepting what you just said as remotely possible.

Re: Day 65, morning

[nowyouseemenowyoudont]

You flash em up some, so no one sees they're mines.