voicemail

[thatwaslucky]

""You have reached the voicemail of..." "Rey." "Please leave a message at the tone."

*beep*

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[betterthanaplan]

just got back. trip went okay.

You know, for a certain value of "okay".

[thatwaslucky]

Good! Did you get your answers?

[betterthanaplan]

Duke took a looooong time coming up with his answer to that.

I got SOME answers

Not the ones he'd gone looking for, no.

[thatwaslucky]

Cryptic

[betterthanaplan]

yeah well thats haven's local specialty

don't suppose you'd be willing to give me meditation lessons?

[thatwaslucky]

Rey blinked, not having expected that.

I'll do my best

[betterthanaplan]

thanks

Look, the answers he'd gotten in Haven were "all your ancestors gave in and killed people". So that meant looking for answers in a galaxy far far away, dammit.

[thatwaslucky]

Are you ok?

Just checking.

[betterthanaplan]

been better. been worse too

the answers weren't what I was hoping for

[thatwaslucky]

I'm sorry. Need to talk?

[betterthanaplan]

Duke debated how to answer for awhile. On the one hand, yes. Yes he did. On the other, actually saying so felt like admitting defeat, somehow.

Finally, he settled on something he hoped wasn't too needy. (Because, you know, accepting offered help was needy.)

might be nice to see a friendly face

[thatwaslucky]

I'll come by before training

[betterthanaplan]

thanks

Then, because Rey was not the only one he'd been texting:

I hear the a/c is out. I'll make sure we've got some nice cold drinks