key_illusion | [Asgard] IC Contact ♛ (OLD)

[Asgard] IC Contact ♛ (OLD)

[All you can hear is the sound of static.]

Was that you?

Yes. [No lies or hesitation here.]

[She appreciates his honesty, at least.]

Why? [She has an idea, yes, but she wants to hear it from him.]

He deserved it for threatening you. [He thought that much was obvious.]

[Not the biggest surprise in the world. She doesn't think she's earned it, really, but he seems to very much want to help her.]

[It means a lot to her that he cares enough to do that, but,]

You could have gotten hurt.

[...He is hurt, actually. Despite not taking visible, physical damage, it's been converted to attacks on his database and operation failures galore.]

It's a risk I'm willing to take.

[... But,]

I'm not. [Not willing to take that risk, to let him do it, not unnecessarily.]

Please.

Why not? [He was made to disappear at some point, anyways.]

[That doesn't mean she wants it to be now.]

I don't want you to get hurt.

For what reason?

[For what reason-- why would she? But perhaps the easier way to explain it would be,]

You matter to me.

[Maybe it's the damage that he took on that's messing up his diagnosis of that sentence. Just one tiny sentence, and a minute passes before he responds.]

Fair enough.