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[codeoracle]

Right. Hacking CCTVs and traffic cams. Anything I can get my coding on.

This Brendan...has he given you a deadline?

[lempereur]

No, he has not. Probably until he sobers up enough to find a police station.

[codeoracle]

Okay that...definitely doesn't help. I don't even know what would convince him at this point if he's that determined.

I should contact him, but I'll follow your lead on this one, Fox.

[lempereur]

please, dont...follow my lead

Feel free to talk with him. He has more evidence, apparently, than he's given up so far. He's holding it over my head.

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[codeoracle]

It's your cover, I figured you'd have opinions...that's all.

So he's blackmailing you in a way? Rude. I'll take care of it.

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[codeoracle]

[A second message rolls in just after the first. She has to ask...]

Are you...doing okay?

[lempereur]

it isn't blackmail. He really thinks I tried to hurt him...

[ Still blackmail. ]






I'm fine.

[codeoracle]

If he's holding it over you it's still blackmail.





...It's okay not to be okay, you know. I'm here if you need me...

[lempereur]

How are you taking care of it?

I just need a distraction. That's all.

[codeoracle]

I contacted him. Seeing what he needs as proof. No one blackmails my team and gets away with it.



Distractions are my specialty.

[lempereur]

Don't take whatever he says about me too seriously.

[codeoracle]

I know you better, why would I listen to anything he says?

[lempereur]

because he is intense enough about it that I start to believe it myself, sometimes

[codeoracle]

intense or not,
don't believe lies. I know that's not the easiest thing in the world. Sometimes your heart likes to lie too...

Your friends think highly of you though...Myself included, Inari.

[lempereur]

keep your expectations in check.

[codeoracle]

they aren't unrealistic.

[lempereur]

I am trying. Give me some time and I will be fine.

[codeoracle]

I know...Just...

You don't have to do it alone. Space and time are a thing, but...don't think you shouldn't burden us or whatever. You aren't one.

[lempereur]

I wouldn't even know what to say.

[codeoracle]

You don't have to say anything if you don't want to...Sometimes it just helps to be around a person you trust.

The words come eventually.

[lempereur]

[ It's a little while before the next one. ]

Can you do whatever you need to do from here?

[codeoracle]

I can do this from wherever, really. I don't have a rig here so I'm portable.

[lempereur]

My housemates are gone. You could come, if you want to.

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[codeoracle]

See you soon, Inari.

[ The more normal she acted, the better right? She'd be there for him, but she wasn't going to treat him like he was about to shatter into a million pieces...if only for the fear that if she did that's exactly what would happen.

One bonus of living in the same city, however, is how shortly she could be to his place. And since his housemates were out, she's going to approach this situation like a normal person visiting a friend. No windows. Knock, knock.]

[lempereur]

[ His window is actually a block of ice right now, so. It doesn't open, it just melts all over the floor periodically and has to be replaced.

ANYWAY the door will do. Yusuke opens, and steps back politely, making sure the door is closed before he says anything. ]

Would you be more comfortable here, or upstairs?