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“Hey, it’s Zack. Leave a message after the beep.”

[ beep ]

Hi, Xie Lian!

I’m kind of pissed but otherwise good!

He didn’t really do anything himself, per se, but he knew about it in advance, didn’t say shit about it, and was 100% on board with it so.

I’m figuring out a game plan here.

Ah, Xue Yang.

[He sighs a little, shaking his head to himself.]

There are times when knowing but not saying is the same as action, and there are times when it isn't.

It seems that at least two out of three of that party were a bit too interested in self-destruction. I don't know Johann well enough to guess if he had notions beyond destruction in general.

Yeah, I don’t know Johann well enough to say, either. I’m not gonna get mixed up in it since I’ve got my hands full as it is.

Xue Yang was definitely in it for the self-destruction, though. He told me so himself.

I saw Envy. [Xie Lian has no doubt there.

He sighs again.]

It's good that Xue Yang is open with you. I was planning on speaking with him. I'm afraid I was rather, ah, direct with him in the last flood, and then he was down in a coma. [It's not that he feels any guilt or responsibility - two different things - over Xue Yang's actions, or thinks that what he said, or hadn't, played a part in the self-destructive habits. But the mess has reminded him that he does want to have that conversation.] Self-destruction without care of the destruction caused to others.

First vines, now large holes... There are people here who express their feelings very energetically.

Yeah, we were both in a coma, actually. I’m extra annoyed he decided to do this right after we woke up, you know. All of this might have been very slightly better if he could have waited, like, a month.

[ Zack, pls. ]

I wish people be a little less energetic about it, honestly.

What do you mean by ‘direct’, though? Did he get mad at you?

If he could've waited a month, it might not have happened at all.

[He rubs the back of his neck.]

I don't know if I'd say mad, exactly... more, ah, distressed... [He's not going to say anything about crying, but, well.] There are things that should be said, but I don't think that's the same as saying that they should be said without care.

Especially to someone with a sensitive spirit.

Edited 2023-08-13 21:54 (UTC)

Yeah, he was kinda...sensitive during that flood.

[ A pause. ]

Was it about Xiao Xingchen?

Yeah.

[It's a topic he's pretty sensitive about, even without the help of the flood.]

[ Zack…sighs. ]

Yeah, that…whole thing is a really big mess.

Haven’t gotten around to addressing it much with him since- well, you know, coma. But that’s gonna take a while to deal with, I bet.

Yeah...

I understand why Xue Yang has his perception of what happened, and why Xiao Xingchen's understanding of events would be hard for him to consider. Especially as I don't think he wanted to.

I usually wouldn't have pointed that out to him. Not like that. I don't think the truth is necessarily useful, just because it's true.

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