pc catchall for stephanie.

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[shitpost incoming.]

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w2, saturday.

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[Yikes.

Nobody is really happy about this, but as far as people who are distinctly unhappy... Natalie's guessing Stephanie is somewhere near the top of that list. She isn't the best at providing comfort by any means, but that doesn't stop her from looking around for her after the trial. When she sees her:]

Hey. Are you, uh...

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No.

[ she knows how that question ends, so she might as well just be honest about it.

she is not okay. ]

But I'll deal.

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...Yeah, I can't really blame you.

[She hesitates for a moment.]

I'm - really sorry.

[vigilantics]

[ she rubs at the back of her neck. ]

It's-- [ well. not fine. ] He's going to yell at us for doing a bad job.

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...I think you did the best you could.

[She's pretty sure they all suck at this, actually, but she isn't going to say that to Stephanie of all people right now.]

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[ steph got uno thing right and honestly that is more than i, francy, have gotten right in the rest of my mg trial career ]

... I'll just have to do better then.

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Right, but... It's not just you.

[vigilantics]

... logically, I know you're right.

[ but..... ]

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...Yeah, I get it. It probably feels even more personal now.

[Steph has awful luck with losing friends so far, wow.]

[vigilantics]

[ GEE ELI!!!!! I WONDER WHY!!!! ]

I guess I just have really shitty luck.

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[STOP]

There's always a chance it'll get better...?

[vigilantics]

Honestly? It might. We can't say how next week is going to go just based on how shitty this week was.

... but it's hard to think about that.

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I think you've probably earned a couple days to not think about next week, honestly.

[vigilantics]

... I wish we got vacations days here.

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Right? Even Monday through Thursday doesn’t really count. Lame.

[vigilantics]

They give you the false security of a normal day, until you lose an arm.

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[...]

Hypothetical example, or...

[vigilantics]

Hypothetical.

[ ... ]

I lost a leg.

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Yikes. Somehow that seems even more inconvenient.

[vigilantics]

It was.

The castle had so many long staircases...

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Did they fix you up with crutches, at least?

[vigilantics]

Yeah.

And a friend of mine there was an inventor. He made me a makeshift leg.

[ it wasn't the prettiest or most functional thing, but it helped. ]

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...That was nice of him. I guess he wouldn't have been able to do that if it was your arm.

[Since functioning hands seem... tricky to make.]

[vigilantics]

Yeah, the... technology there wasn't super advanced for that.

[ since it was a

fairy tale castle ]

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[...]

How'd it happen?