catch-all texting.

[shoegaze]

catch-all texting
midnight texting . general texts . unsent texts . etc.

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@yuuko

[wingclip]

Kochou Shinobu wants to share their location with you

Message deleted.

[Three seconds later:]

Yuuko-san. Apologies.

[fulfiller]

I'm afraid I can't make it over to you at the moment, Shinobu.

[ yet, she reached out. ]

Can I help you?

[wingclip]

[Ahh, drat. She wishes she hadn't.]

Oh, nothing to concern yourself with.

It's simply been one of those days!

[fulfiller]

This connection works much the same way as my shop. If you've reached me, then you must have a reason.

It's important to modernize your business when you can, wouldn't you say?

[ that last line is as much for shinobu as it is for a peeping watanuki. ]

[wingclip]

Is that right? I can imagine the wonders that must yield for your human clientele.

As for the rest...

[She doesn't want to wrap her head around the idea of youkai using phones.]

I suppose I was in a bit of a bind.

[Emphasis on was.]

[fulfiller]

Less than you might expect.

You're already aware the cost of my help with your work is far too big to consider, of course.

[wingclip]

I can pay it.

[Upfront, as she always is.]

What I am requesting... an ear.

[fulfiller]

[ words and thoughts are powerful, and even a request like that can wind up more than one bargained for, but she trusts shinobu is already aware of that. ]

Well then, by all means.

[wingclip]

I can hardly stand it sometimes, Yuuko-san.

[Iron hangs heavily like an afterthought in the back of Shinobu's throat. It fuels her rage, previously boiling over and now kept warm by the blood in her veins.]

Why do they act as though they cannot help themselves? Everyone must take responsibility for their actions one way or another.

[fulfiller]

[ lending an ear means — listening, plain and simple as that. if shinobu wanted advice, she'd have asked for that.

for now, yuuko offers gentle understanding, for everything said and unsaid. ]

Yes, they must.

[ that is a fact. ]

[wingclip]

[That small affirmation is enough, but Shinobu feels various degrees of tired and irritated tonight. She rubs a bruise on her ankle and greedily thinks: see, even the Space-Time Witch agrees with me.

She isn't foolish enough to lock this away as truth, but it's a meager comfort all the same.]

Youkai are rarely liars, I will give them that. But when one says he enjoys the taste of fear specifically from humans how can I ignore it...? It is out of the question!