002 # text # un: skyenet

[evite]

[ do you know what happens when it's late and raining too hard for a girl to go down to the garage to work on her own personal episode of pimp my ride? late night text posts happen. this time, it's a shit post. sorry, not sorry. ]

riverview, we need to have a talk.

[ it's very serious. ]

att: are you fucking kidding me.jpg
if i could give this zero stars, i would.

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Text. @ilikehorses

[shoplifter]

[That is a nightmare to her delicate sensibilities and she will be more than happy to resort to violence.]

Do you want me to cut it all to pieces
I can do that for you, no charge.

[evite]

a million percent yes

[ wait, maybe don't actively encourage vandalism from small children. time to turn on Reverse Psychology Mode™ ]

i mean no
definitely don't do that
it would really be a shame if the wall in the women's restroom at the coffee shop near the groundtram station suddenly got a giant hole in it...

[shoplifter]

It would be a shame. It is too bad you have said not to.

[She's heading over there right now. She's putting her shades on and is heading out the door in the dead of night to some random ass coffee shop.]

[evite]

a total tragedy
i can't imagine anyone would reward the person who did such a horrible thing with candy or anything

[ candy from strangers in vans? check. ]

audio un:pnwsalex

[11calls]

People who do things like that need to be beaten, I swear. I honestly think there needs to be some perverse group of people who go about doing that to drive people like us completely insane.

> private phone call, aren't we fancy.

[evite]

[ upon seeing her friend's equally late-night network reply, skye does the normal thing and picks up the phone to call her instead. god, she's obnoxious, but privacy does have its perks. and when alex answers, she just dives right in. who says hello anyway? ]

— they're all dead to me, I'm telling you. A bunch of grade A assholes. [ the vague sounds of a can of something bubbly being cracked open in the background. mm, knockoff coke zero. ] I've been thinking about this for, like, hours now.

[ the real question is 'why aren't you sleeping' but that's a round of jeopardy she's not playing. ]

[11calls]

[Alex doesn't ask the question, because let's be real, she's someone who wouldn't want to be asked so she gets it and respects it. Instead she's going to offer an alternative reason why Skye might be awake right now:]

Well, let's be honest here, that's the sort of thing that keeps a person up at night. It's a bit like a splinter in your brain that way. Everything inside of you just wants to find the person and give them a shake and just be like "how HOW DO YOU NOT FIX THIS!"

ice.tigrr; text

[bespredel]

I can't decide if I'm disgusted, or if I love the chaotic 'fuck you' that that clearly represents.

[evite]

both?
i mean it makes me want to murder a contractor but i feel that fuck you mood hard

[bespredel]

Makes me wonder the context. Like, what did somebody do to piss that contractor off so much? Was it something the owner of the location did? Was it a fellow contractor? Did he want to sabotage the work to give his boss a bad review? I'm curious.

voice | un: w.west

[otherflash]

Clearly something must be done about this. [ Such as bribing someone with candy to cut up the wall, apparently. ] It would be justified, I think.

[ Something that sounds suspiciously like a grunt comes from his end because the boxes of Jason's shit he's currently moving around is a lot heavier than he expects. Nothing like packing up his recently departed roommate's stuff in the middle of the night to distract himself while he waits to see if his other roommate even bothers coming home tonight.

Of course, that only explains why he is up at this late hour. ]

So... late night?

[evite]

[ it's a good thing this isn't a live video feed. the fond little smile that curves up the corners of her mouth would totally kill any attempt at keeping up her stern expression. ]

Don't worry, I have my top people on it. [ top people. just not necessarily the tall people. ] They're very motivated.

[ a soft laugh at her own joke fills a bit of dead air. the weather has really put a damper on her plans for the day, and being cooped up indoors has left her feeling a bit... well, antsy. the kind of antsy that lends itself to absentmindedly clicking pen caps and needlessly rearranging her own furniture. ]

Something like that, yeah. What's keeping you up?

[otherflash]

[ Just hearing her laugh is enough to brighten his mood considerably from where it was a few seconds ago. Which isn't surprising because she has that effect on him in general. ]

You do seem to have a knack for knowing how to properly motivate people.

[ Is that something he has come to learn through personal experience? It's a possibility. As for what's keeping him up, there's enough of a delay between her asking the question and the time it takes him to respond that one might get the feeling there's a little more going on than he's willing to admit. ]

I wouldn't say anything is keeping me up. [ Liiieee. ] I'm just getting a head start on packing things up before we move. Living in a place with eleven bedrooms and almost as many baths is a bit excessive given there's only two of us here now. It's a lot of house to clean even for me.

text; un: Kumokumo

[ikenai]

It took me a moment to see what was wrong, but that one square... Whomever did that should be forced to redo the entire wall. And then fired with prejudice.

[evite]

it's just one!!!
it wouldn't be so bad if it was the whole wall fucked up
but they did the rest of it just fine except that ONE TINY SQUARE

[ just burn it to the ground!!!!!!! ]

[ikenai]

It throws off the aesthetic.
Honestly, would it have been that much work to fix it before it set in like that?

Besides, it's not even done artistically.

text; pc.grant

[thestarling]

Do you think they do it on purpose, when it's just one like that?

[evite]

i think our mystery man is either a total sociopath trying to hurt people or a complete and total moron
what's your hot take?

[thestarling]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

text: @redpaladin

[tempredmental]

someone wasnt paying attn

[evite]

or were they
dun dun dun

[tempredmental]

y wld someone do that on purpose?

text: un: vroom

[acuerdo]

[is there a nice way to say she needs to touch some grass or something? let's find out.]

Just how long have you been staring at that picture?

[evite]

hours, definitely
i composed a very angry email to the manager in the shower too

[ tmi? too bad. ]

[acuerdo]

[on one hand, yay multitasking. on the other, why???]

And this is where I tell you it will probably never get responded to.

Thanks for sharing though. Next time I need to get you back for saddling me with your creeper van, I know what to do.