041 - Macintosh Apple

[deadly_ned]

I don't...expect there to be anyone. From my world, that is.

There wasn't anyone last time, but.

Hope's a hard thing to squash.

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[composited]

True. But I have faith you.

[deadly_ned]

I wish I had faith in me.

[composited]

I do too, Ned.

[deadly_ned]

What do you think I should do?

[composited]

Same thing I thought when I left: that you should go home.

[deadly_ned]

Just like that?

[composited]

Letting go is simple. Just uncurl your hands.

[deadly_ned]

I'm frightened.

[composited]

That's natural and normal, Ned.

[deadly_ned]

Change was never something I was very good at.

[composited]

No? You don't say.

[deadly_ned]

Can I ask how you're settling into your new life?

[composited]

I'm settled. [ He can't call it much of a life, after the Thoughtpocalypse, but it's his. ] It's-- been a few years. Since we spoke last.

[deadly_ned]

A few years?

That's.

Wow.

I'm touched you still remembered me. People fall out of touch after only months.

[composited]

Have I ever been most people? I mean -- I guess I'm compromised of people, but event they aren't 'most people'.

[deadly_ned]

It still means a lot. I must have had a bigger effect on you than I thought.

[composited]

If you only knew, Ned. If you only knew. [ He's both wry, and a hint self-depreciating there. It's funny, how things worked out, he thinks. Funny. ]

[deadly_ned]

It..isn't just a one-way street.

You really helped me to be braver. I don't know if I ever thanked you for that.

[composited]

Well, you helped me find a new way to be. So thank you for that.

[deadly_ned]

Any time.

[composited]

Not really phone enabled here, but if the offers still open, maybe I'll get Iris to come give me a lift. I'll come visit.

Once you're settled, I mean. Chuck does get first dibs.

[deadly_ned]

Of course the offer's still open. The offer is always open.


I think I might ask her to marry me.

[composited]

That sounds like a good plan.

[deadly_ned]

It means a lot that you approve.


And there didn't seem to be much of a point in waiting.

[composited]

[ Approve? Or just knows that she makes him happy, and wants him to have that happiness? Alpha's not so sure. ]

No, no. I think you waited long enough.