INBOX text / audio / video / action Hi, Lucretia speaking. I'm busy at the moment, but if you'd like to leave a message, I'll get back to you ASAP. art creditcode credit
[The text comes... a few days after their argument, during which time Taako has barely been at the apartment, preferring to stay with Eddie while he tries to comes to terms with everything that happened. It's been a shitty fucking week, and at the end of each day, he keeps coming back to the fact that he misses Lucretia.
So he comes home.
Only to find her not there, which feels both ironic and typical. Still, rather than surprise her with his sudden presence back in their space, he decides to send a text to warn her, essentially.]
I'm making chicken confit for dinner, what time do you think you're gonna be home?
[It's the most innocuous text he could send, but it speaks volumes.]
Good news: Magnus showed up Bad news: He's fresh off the Starblaster in Fearun and hasn't met me again yet so like, we've got ourselves a fucking moral quandary.
We're need an IPRE meeting when you get back, me you and Lup, just thought you might like a heads up in case you're checking the network while you're doing your thing.
[It takes a lot for him to send this text. He rewrites it a handful of times, nearly throws his phone at the wall in anger and frustration, but finally settles on something.
Because this is important, because they need to talk to Magnus, and unfortunately, Lucretia now has the same information Taako has, maybe more, about what she used Junior to do to all of them. He's not doing this for Lucretia, he's doing it for Magnus, so he knows everything there is to know.]
There's been an incident at the hospital. Don't worry, I'm safe, but I wanted you to hear it from me, not on the news. I don't know how long it will be before I'm cleared to leave.
[At some point in the even, Taako accidentally ate an unconscionable amount of the trippy mushrooms and is having A Time. Lup is probably somewhere in the house, but his awareness extends to his phone and not a whole let else, right now.]
(The day had started out bright enough, with Beverly and Lucretia exploring the ice maze, but discovering Beverly's gift at the center of it - a picture of her and Wesley together put more of a damper on things than she'd like to admit. Feeling tired and extremely homesick, all she wants to do this evening is curl up by the fire in their rented cabin by the beach. She sits huddled on the rug in front of the fireplace with a heavy blanket around her shoulders and the picture in her hands. She smiles apologetically up at Lucretia.)
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