[AUDIO] - The Clinic

[seacub]

[Emporio holds his pearl with care, making sure not to project much of a video image. The mental audio is best here he thinks, if at least because of what he's 'talking' about.

...

With difficulty, but he's trying to keep those feelings out of the transmission as well.]

Everyone- Uh. I need you to know that Guildmaster Ribombee brought Firepaw in today. ...He found him outside his office door, with a report in his jaws.

...Firepaw was. ...Was working really hard the last little while. He was down here so many times that Anasui and I had to pull him out more than once to try and get him to sleep, but.

[Distantly, one might actually make out the sounds of the Espartha cursing. Anyone who actually knows the bird can tell that he's upset.

But not in an 'angry' way.

Emporio presses on.]

...I'd say I'd hope he can get some rest for a bit now, but after what happened to A.B.A...

...Well. We'll all be taking turns looking after him with the others. But please. Just... ...Look after yourselves too. Don't push it.

[The connection ends.]

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[telewarped]

[Shoka doesn't reply right away—can't, when her thoughts are immediately sent into a spiral. She told Firepaw that he didn't have to overwork himself so much, that it wasn't all on him—but that was a while ago now, wasn't it? Maybe she should have said it more, tried harder to make him really listen...

Eventually, she does reply, because it feels like she should say something. And it's not like Firepaw's dead. She can't write him off so easily. A.B.A came back, so—he might, too.

Her tone is flat, detached.]

Thanks. The same goes for you. Sui, too.

I'll... [Do what I can to help? What can she even do?] I'll be around. If...

[If they need anything? If they want to talk? Like she could help with that!

Unsure of how to finish that sentence, she trails off without bothering.]

[seacub]

Yeah. I, um. ...I try not to overbook myself, so...

[Anasui's cursing can still be heard in the background.]

Yeah. I'll see you around. Um. Not just here, obviously!

[telewarped]

Right...

[That's... a lot of colorful language she's hearing in the background. She understands.]

... What about Sui?

[seacub]

[.....The sounds have faded.]

...He'll...be okay.

...It'll just take time.

[telewarped]

Yeah. Same goes for all of us, I think.

[Or maybe it won't be okay. But it's going to take time regardless (to process, to deal with).

She isn't ready to talk about it, or think about it. Even if she was, Emporio and Anasui know each other better than she knows either of them; if they're going to talk, it probably shouldn't be with her.]

I'll... see you later, okay?

[seacub]

Yeah. Uh...Later.

[Later, go figure, will probably be in the middle of a fight with a bunch of bugs. It's fine.]