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[fiddlestick]

Makes sense. You were so out of it I was thiiiis close to putting a sleep spell on you too.

...Which in retrospect, I probably should've.

[usurpers]

Don't be hard on yourself for it. Better to happen with pixies so I have a chance to separate things than with a fae. [ priorities. ] I've been trying to figure things out for a while now and I might have some answers if I can figure out how to dance.

[ ........ yeah he typed that ]

[fiddlestick]

[....]

How to dance? Did I read that right?

[usurpers]

Sully told me where to find the oldest fae in the city, but he'll only come out to a good dance.

Are you tired?

[ why else would you doubt his wording ]

[fiddlestick]

No, it was just a very random statement.

Why do you want to find the oldest fae?

[usurpers]

Because they know something. Creia's brother does too, but I don't have any leads on where he is.

There're stories from her time that say dragons and fae are connected. Some of them strictly protectors or predators. I'm going after why.

[fiddlestick]

I see....

I'm coming with you when you do.

[usurpers]

I'll let you know. Do you know how to dance?

[fiddlestick]

I know how to play dance music, which you need for any great dance.

[usurpers]

I'll need practice, too. [ . . . ]The fast violin music?

[fiddlestick]

[A pause as he considers things]

Yeah. I think a jig would probably be our best bet.

[usurpers]

What about metal?

[fiddlestick]

I don't have the instruments to pull off metal music. Plus it's not really...dance music?

[usurpers]

I heard there was a metal dance, it’s called mosh.

[ that was a dance he could do!!! ]

[fiddlestick]

Can't say I've heard of that.

What does it entail?

[usurpers]

You run inside a pit and slam into each other.

[fiddlestick]

[.....]

Yeah, I don't think we can pull that off with just the two of us.

[usurpers]

I thought about asking Mikasa to make us a fairy ring and Jean to get slammed, so that'd make four. [ he knows something is a little tense hanging around the former with what mikasa told him, but he had yet to hear from elliot. ] How're you with them?

[fiddlestick]

[.....Ah....

He hadn't brought up his fight with Mikasa to Eren because he didn't want to bother him.]

I'm okay with Jean, but...

Sorry, I don't think Mikasa and me working together would go very well.

I didn't know you two were on talking terms again.

[usurpers]

It's still tense. [ expected, not even half of what they need to resolve is resolved, ] I always feel like I don't deserve to be around her but I'm not in any position to be pushing her away anymore.

[ it wouldn't fix the hole he blew open, but . . . he didn't know where it would lead, either. he was tired of snatching every "good" she could have away from her. ]

What happened?

[fiddlestick]

[There's a pause on his end. So Mikasa is trying to work through things with Eren, the guy who was the reason for the rift, while he hasn't heard a peep. Welp, that just says it all, doesn't it? ]

It's not important. I just overestimated our relationship.

[Or rather, how much HE mattered]

I know how much Mikasa means to you, so I really don't want to get you involved.

[usurpers]

I was involved from the start, I always would’ve been. I’m sorry, for that.

[ he can’t say for certain if he made a mistake in staying quiet anymore. he needed that time and so did mikasa, but it was true that it caused . . . collateral damage. again. damage to people that had nothing to do with either of their problem.

no, he did make a mistake. it’s about time he accepted that it was, even if it would’ve happened anyway or if it was better or not. ]

I won’t interfere, if that’s what you mean, but what you’re feeling [ he pauses there, even ends up sending the message the way it was before sending the remainder: ] is important to me.

[fiddlestick]

[He stares at that message for a good while, torn about what to say. ]

It's just how it is when you're a healer and a musician. I'm there for really important moments in people lives: weddings, injuries, funerals - you name it. My skills are important for those times, but it's not like I'm important. People will be grateful, sure, but I'm still an outsider to their lives.

Anyway, I slipped up and forgot that. I thought Mikasa and I were friends. So after she found out you were here, I decided to tell her that we were Bonded - because I didn't like the idea of lying to a friend, you know? But...turns out the feeling wasn't mutual, and she made that really clear.

It's my own fault really.

[usurpers]

[ eren pieces both together, what’s being said here and what mikasa mentioned, but he still takes longer to respond. ]

That doesn’t make a healer or a musician, Elliot. If you were something else it would’ve been the same, but not because you lack value.

You’re given. You come from a place that allows you to be that way. It’s not your fault or her’s, it’s mine.

[fiddlestick]

[...Ah yep. This is why he didn't want to tell him]

No. You might've been the initial cause, sure, but Mikasa and I are our own people too. Besides, if it was only because of you, it would've been resolved after she started talking to you again. But I haven't heard a word.

And before you say it, I'm not gonna reach out to her. She made it plenty clear she'd use violence if she had to be around me longer. Which I feel bad for hiding things from her, but not THAT bad.

[Elliot "no i'm not a sucker for punishment" Craig]