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[4thprince]

tbh

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Psychic text!

[guylining]

hello hello incoming, texting 4321 it's your roommate

[4thprince]

Yes I understand it's you. Why are you you announcing yourself like this?

[guylining]

how else would you know it's me??

dude we can psychic text with our brains.

[4thprince]

You've never psychically spoken to another person before?

[guylining]

i have but like i generally avoid it because it gives me migraines and nosebleeds and stuff. it's just not my vibe

but this is different, it's like we're already connected so i don't have to expend magic to do it

usually i only talk like this with thorn
and that's not like texting really, it's more like dreamwalking. less conversation and more just existing together in the same space

it's sort of hard to keep to one line of conversation tbh like that's a work in progress it's very stream of consciousness rn

so you might say i'm practising

[4thprince]

Practice harder.

It's like any other form of focus.

[guylining]

i am that's exactly what i'm doing

practicing that is

my brand of focus is honestly pretty chaotic like. idk thinking just one thought at a time is like reading one book at a time, it's just kind of hard to do. because books 2 and 3 are always creeping back in you know?

[4thprince]

Chaos isn't focus. They're almost complete opposites.

Why am I your practice target?

[guylining]

well because i know a very limited number of people, nick is as chaotic as i am, and i really think i should be more impressive about this before i hit up zoya again

plus you get the full brunt of my chaos in person, so you're well equipped to deal with it.

[4thprince]

Ah, I'm a last resort. I see.

[guylining]

no you're just the best man for the job

plus, you know, you're all stoic and done with everything and shit
if anyone can help me be better at this it's you

[4thprince]

But as you noted, I'm done with shit. Including this.

[guylining]

no no no come on! it's just chat anyway, all you have to do is talk back

[4thprince]

I'm aware what it is.

So what do you want to chat about?

[guylining]

anything

how about this shit with the duchess what do you think of that? of her?

[4thprince]

She's a puppeteer it seems like. Distant but pulling all our strings.

Are you going?

[guylining]

yeah, cause i don't see the point in not

maybe she has answers for us, or knows who does
maybe she's responsible for all of this and there's some evidence in the castle that points to that
maybe she knows nothing about it but someone else up there does

it's been closed to us, im gonna take the opportunity

you?

[4thprince]

The same, of course. Whatever comes next, she's at least the start of it.

[guylining]

yeah i think so too.

she resurrected people.

[4thprince]

That unnerves you most?

[guylining]

idk if most

but it unnerves me

that's a big taboo where i'm from. old, forbidden magic, most people have never even read it about it. and she just did it openly.

[4thprince]

I'm more concerned about the fact that we can turn into monsters than her ability to revive the dead personally. Her skill is a lesser horror.

[guylining]

i mean I'm definitely not happy about that

but it reads like a curse
complete with curse marks and everything
it has werewolf vibes
and like i don't love that especially like for me, that's definitely not my vibe and i very badly want to break the curse

but there's werewolves where i'm from you know? it's objectively less weird to think about that than it is to think about death just not meaning anything at all

[4thprince]

Is there not immortality where you're from?

[guylining]

among vampires, demons etc? sure