Seasons: IC Contact/Continuations

[abnormalizes]

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[abnormalizes]

[Deep inhale.]

So after a long character arc, being read for filth and having a minor mental breakdown, various stages of denial, and a lot of encouragement... I'm dating people now.

[twofacedlight]

[ For a moment, Jyoti just blinks at her, as an ugly yet familiar feeling rises in her chest. It's something she's felt time and time again with Evangeline - that despite all their similarities, despite every way they simply get each other in ways it feels no one else possibly could, Evangeline... is better than her. In every single way. She has no idea how to process these emotions.

So she does what she does best: shoves them away and pretends they don't exist. Like everything's normal, and they're just an ordinary pair of friends gossiping about their totally regular love lives. As you do. ]

... Who? [ It's people. Plural. At least things haven't changed so dramatically that Evangeline's now monogamous. ]

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline interprets that blinks as surprise. Why wouldn't she? It's a big jump for her.]

Chipp, Fajra, Barghest, Rider. [Four people.] It's... been a lot to adjust to. Still very much a work in progress.

[Evangeline isn't any kind of amazing. She struggles with things normal people find easy. She's just lucky enough to have people who support her enough to try the things that she struggles with - a luck that not everyone has.]

[twofacedlight]

[ A luck that Jyoti doesn't have, apparently. ]

I haven't met any of them.

[ Does she want to? At the moment, she's unsure. So that, too, gets shoved out of sight and out of mind, in favor of a more normal question. ]

How long have you been dating?

[abnormalizes]

Mayish? So... about four months? Not all that long.

[It's still a very new and uncertain development.]

[twofacedlight]

[ On the contrary, four months sounds like a long time. At least to be dating. ... Not that Jyoti has any genuine experience in that department. ]

I'm happy for you.

[ Jealousy aside, she knows how hard that must've been. To open her heart up to something that'd hurt so much to lose. ]

[abnormalizes]

Thank you. -I hope you're in a place to do that too someday. If you want to.

[For all she knows, Jyoti doesn't want that at all.]

[twofacedlight]

I doubt I will. [ file this under Things That Make Jyoti Look Like A Clown In Retrospect ] ... But thanks.

[ Even if she can't see that future for herself, she understands where those words come from. And it's... kind. A kindness she doesn't know how to handle, but doesn't push away because it's Evangeline. ]

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline acknowledges the thanks with a hum, thinking of what else to say.]

-One time people started aging up or down for some reason and I was a little kid. I wish I had photos for you, I was adorable.

[twofacedlight]

[ Oh thank god, a shift in topic. Jyoti can breathe a little easier. ]

I can picture it. [ She doesn't like kids all that much... but, again, Evangeline. ] How long did that last?

[abnormalizes]

Like four days or so? I accidentally pulled my scythe out of my purse and it was bigger than I was.

[twofacedlight]

[ Pff- she tries not to laugh, but she can't stop the little huff of amusement. ]

How do you "accidentally" pull out your scythe? I thought you had to know what you're grabbing to get it.

[abnormalizes]

It turns out, if you just reach in there intending to pull out whatever happens to be inside...

[twofacedlight]

That's weird. [ but also good to know?? since she's always wanted to get one (and at the point of this thread hadn't bought hers yet lmao) ] You really never know what you're grabbing?

[abnormalizes]

Normally, you just think about something you know you have in there and when you reach in, that's what you pull out. But I had no idea what was in there.