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so i may need to change my lifestyle around a little

[ It had been pure luck that she had found the number shoved away in a drawer, ink smudged and runny from the months-ago flooding but still legible. It's cheating, perhaps, to use the CereVice as a phone and not as the multi-functional communication device it was designed as—skipping past careful engineering in a moment of weakness.

It rings, and rings, and rings. Thirteen rings, to be exact, before - something. Static, the hum of a request denied, bits and pieces of a startlingly familiar voice swallowed up by snow. ]

▓▓is ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓sei. Lea▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓est pro▓▓▓▓▓

Than▓▓▓▓

[ Hope is uncomfortable in her chest, like a vise at her heart. It only pulls tighter when she hears a faint, distorted beep. ]

Hello, Captain.

[ Her voice is echoed back to her, undercut by the faint hum of static. ]

I'm sorry for leaving before you had a chance to finish our training. I never told you how grateful I was, but I wish I had. I - suppose I'm saying it now.

[ She leaves off anything too sentimental, knowing it would have galled him. Even though he'll never hear this, it's important to her. Pyrrha may feel like she's given him reason enough to be disappointed in her but... he would never have thought like that. He would have told her to get over it and prove herself. Those words, she keeps inside. ]

Things are very different now, in the community. I would have liked to have talked it over with you. It's strange, but even though you were so quiet, you always had a way of making me feel... helped. That's the word I'm looking for.

[ "I'm not handling things well."

"I cheated death, does that still make me a person?"

"These aren't consequences I ever expected to face."

Ultimately, all she finishes with is, ] I hope we get to talk again one day. It doesn't seem like the most impossible thought to have anymore.

... Take care, Captain.

[ Slowly, Pyrrha disconnects the call, eschewing the brief comfort of fantasy and returning to the life in front of her. ]

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[ So, Pyrrha accidentally fell into a life changing circumstance - and, by fell, we mean she bulldozed her way through like a literal bull and probably knocked down some trees in the process - but! Sousei's been fairly good at the whole "tough love" thing, having been the first person to tell her to get her act together since she returned rather than handling her like glass.

Hearing what she needs, not what she wants - weirdly enough, that is what Pyrrha wants now. She doesn't hesitate to reach out to him, some of her heart's disquiet settling at just... making that gesture.

Also, she totally wants to show off her cool new powers to him, weak as they are. She's still a teenager, okay.

Pyrrha leaves him a quick message: ]

Hello, Captain
I was hoping you had time to talk

Edited 2016-11-21 00:48 (UTC)

[ Sousei may or may not sense a... familiar presence nearby. Somewhere along his routine, none other than Jaune Arc jumps out of the shadows, armed and ready! The only difference is that this time he doesn't seem to be attacking Sousei at all, but stops in front of the man with his weapon drawn.

???? ]

Hey.

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