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No... unfortunately not.

[ Now she feels a little bad for being excited. ]

I suppose you wouldn't be interested, anyway...

[fuck]

I wasn't being serious Anabel
what's the word

Oh.
Are you sure? I do imagine you wouldn't be interested, but...

I am only sure that you have some sort of information you wish me to be aware of

Yes.

[ There is a long pause here and it's really more about her nerves than anything else. She doesn't want him to feel obligated because of what happened between them or because they're friends and live together or anything like that. ]

There is a masquerade ball this month.

[There is a long pause here and it's because he's? confused?]

what

Do you not know what that is?

I know of the concept
not what need there is for it

Oh.
I was
I suppose I just was wondering
Perhaps
If you'd like to attend it
With me?

huh?

[Genuine surprise - if this were an image, she'd have seen his eyebrows shoot up.]

...you know that's...not really my thing...right?
don't you want to go with someone more entertaining?

That's why I said I didn't think you'd be interested. I was not being coy.
I didn't know that was how I was meant to choose who I will go with.
I suppose if that's what you'd rather I do then I might ask Agent Cooper?

[ It took a lot out of her to ask him and she's incredibly disappointed. Enough that it might come through in a small wave through her crystal. ]

[ggggghhhghh of course this is how it's gonna go, of course he feels that wave... He sighs. In person, not over the crystal. Unless it accidentally came over the crystal.]

you don't exactly sound thrilled to go with someone else

[ It's pretty blatant even without that little push. It's not intentional, of course. She'd rather him not be aware how much she was looking forward to it. ]

I would have asked someone else if I wanted to go with someone else.
It would not be so strange to go alone, would it?
I usually do that for International Police functions, after all.

you go to those things?

[He realizes that looks pretty judgemental right after he telecasts it, adding another tally in the fuck-up column. Without his tone of voice there's no way to tell it wasn't derogatory... His next messages go through very quickly after, with a hint of blatant regret.]

I just meant
I don't know how much of good company I'd be for you to enjoy the thing

Of course. I am Chief, after all.

[ She doesn't have the luxury of staying home, most of the time. But she can sense something from him and she suspects it's rather negative, frankly. ]

I see.
Well, you needn't if you are disinterested.
I just... would like to go with you. That is all.
Please do not feel pressured.
It's just some silly festival and masquerade and there seems to be something going on every month. So you do not need to entertain my hopes.
Regardless, I think I will go.

[There's a...somewhat long...pause between her last message and when he replies. God, he really doesn't want to go. But he still feels like he needs to make it up to Anabel for last month, and he can hear the disappointment in her words before the emotion wave hits him.]

[So......y'know......]

I don't have anything to wear

[ She can pretty much tell that he doesn't want to go and if he agrees he'll do it just for her. She feels a touch guilty about that but the concept of it all... makes it kind of undesirable. ]

Neither do I.
You needn't go, really.

[His hand drags down his face and he holds back a sigh.]

so now that I'm offering you don't want to go

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I did not say that I would not attend.
I am simply saying that you do not need to offer for my sake, that is all.

I meant with m...

...alright. we're going to start over, okay?

[He pauses. The next text she sees appears in her neat handwriting from his memory, in a lilac color matching her hair, repeating her initial message of]

Ah, Nanu! Did you hear?

no, Anabel, I haven't heard anything, what is it you would like to tell me?

[ There is a soft audible huff in his head now. ]

That's not funny, you know.

But I suppose that I will entertain your silly game. As you already seem to be aware, there is a masquerade toward the end of this month.

...ah, is that the color you think of me as?

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why do you say that...

experience

with who???

YOU and your WORDS

i'm perfectly sweet and innocent though?

suspicious

no like i said perfectly sweet and innocent

i have evidence to the contrary

show it to me you liar

the proof is in the threads

which ones that don't exist

all of them it's all of them

i don't see it

you can't fool me

i'm not!!!!

EXACTLY

EXACTLY I'M NOT???

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