[He sends this message like, a good few hours after communications go back up, because Shinjiro finds it entirely too awkward and presumptuous to just reach out to him right away as though they're friends, or something. There's probably others he'd rather hear from first. Less complicated, awkward ties.
...At the same time, Erik is the only person here who really knows him in any meaningful way, and there's been something strange about being cut off from even the decision to contact him if he wanted to.
(It might be something like loneliness, were he at all willing to acknowledge it)
When Erik does get that mental ping of a new message, it's at some unearthly hour, almost as though the sender had hoped he would be asleep when he sent it.]
a mess? i heard about the people getting arrested up there did you get caught up in that or something else happen?
[That definitely reads like concern too. Shit. Fuck. Thought to speech betrays his feelings too easily. ...It's fine. He'll deny it if he's called on it.]
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text; un: aragaki | after communications are back up
...At the same time, Erik is the only person here who really knows him in any meaningful way, and there's been something strange about being cut off from even the decision to contact him if he wanted to.
(It might be something like loneliness, were he at all willing to acknowledge it)
When Erik does get that mental ping of a new message, it's at some unearthly hour, almost as though the sender had hoped he would be asleep when he sent it.]
hey
[Five entire minutes later:]
you're alive and shit right
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[ he's a bit surprised and maybe a little touched. he keeps forgetting people keep tabs. ]
i'm in one piece. there was a bit of a mess here, still looking to untangle it, but i'm good.
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i heard about the people getting arrested up there
did you get caught up in that or
something else happen?
[That definitely reads like concern too. Shit. Fuck. Thought to speech betrays his feelings too easily. ...It's fine. He'll deny it if he's called on it.]
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How are things down below? The sorting system is fucking weird.