Tae-gun feels like this conversation is going great, actually! She hasn't decided to break up with him even a little bit! He's still, like, feeling dead inside, but since she hasn't broken up with him even a little bit after all of this he feels like he can in fact hug her and try to comfort her.

(The sleep dep might be catching up to him in weird ways.)

Okay. This is allowed. He is allowed to hug her while she cries about how she's apparently garbage at displaying that she cares about people and their feelings. (And is a horrible bitchy crazy person who can't do anything on her own, and can't try to do anything with anyone else because whenever she asks for help she apparently fucks it up and-)

Look. There will be a lot of crying, okay.

That's okay, crying is okay, he's here for her. "I don't think you've stomped all over my feelings. I'm sorry if I gave you that impression." He has no idea where it could have come from but clearly they've been going through some insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane amounts of miscommunication here that just flew under the radar. "I like you, Hye-jin-ah. I like you a lot."

Sniffle.

"Okay. ... I like you too. Just." She doesn't know how to finish that sentence. She doesn't know 'just' what. But. It sure is there.

"Just wish I didn't have a crazy stalker psychic ex. Just wish I were better at understanding other people's emotions and expressing mine. Just wish I were more helpful or useful with the single most dangerous thing in our lives right now." That last one is new, he would not have rated Kang Jaeha as dangerous before. Or—not in that way. "Just wish you could believe and trust that I'll actually support you and be there for you despite you feeling like I haven't at all. Just wish you had more than liking me."

"I do trust you completely in combat situations! My bodily integrity is fine with you around, just. ... My complicated fucked up feelings are also part of me."

"I know. And I want to support those, too."

Nod.

Snuggle.

The world is awful and being a human being is awful and being an esper is extra awful, since it comes with this kind of insanity, but snuggles are nice. She can hide from the wide awful world.

At least he's tall and has long arms so he can hug her a lot and help hide her from the world.

🪁freefall: @LeeTae-gun
🪁freefall: did Kim Hye-jin by any chance get a look on the shooter
🪁freefall: or do you by any chance have the bullets that hit her

...he's not going to show this to Hye-jin. She's going through enough.

LeeTae-gun: Why?

🪁freefall: getting a postcog to look into shit

Okay that's something he'll need Hye-jin's thoughts about.

LeeTae-gun: I have a bullet.
LeeTae-gun: I'll ask her if she has more.

"Hye-jin-ah..."

🪁freefall: sick
🪁freefall: send it over

"... Mmm?" she hums, frightened of the implications of having More Conversation.

"Si-yeon is getting a postcog to investigate what happened and is wondering if you've seen the—culprit. Or something."

"... I don't... Really remember much of the dungeon itself." Which has some implications she doesn't want to think about right now!

Fortunately, there's something better, even if it's going to suck to have someone watch it.

"But I was um. Wearing a body cam. Footage should have uploaded onto the server the minute I left the dungeon."

"Oh. Yeah. That'll be useful. Thank you. Um, I need to go send Si-yeon the bullet, too, back in a sec?"

Nod.

He'll be fast about it, hyup grab the bullet attach it to a message to Si-yeon and then back to snuggling, he can grab the video and send it to Si-yeon while doing that.

Oh, she thought he was literally leaving, just this is fine. She’ll go back to hiding from the world, then.

🪁freefall: cheers boy
🪁freefall: btw when you're no longer going through shit, we should meet tonight and push forward Friday's thing
🪁freefall: we need to figure out wtf to do

LeeTae-gun: That's a good idea.
LeeTae-gun: I'll let you know.

The chat was locked immediately after the event, and remained locked for two hours until people could confirm what happened and there was time for them to cool off.

🚫do-not-jin: do not plot revenge murder anywhere you can leave an audio, paper, or electronic trail
🚫do-not-jin: especially do not plot murder in my chat
🚫do-not-jin: thank u

MODERATOR ANNOUNCEMENT: This chat is no longer locked; members may freely send messages again.

🛡️discountraidcaptain: I had a 'get well soon' card made for Kim Hye-jin, for anyone that wants to sign it.
🛡️discountraidcaptain: Most of you have probably seen it already but if you haven't!