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For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

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[longforgottenpromise]

Inigo? [His voice gets even more worried, sharper.]

What do you mean by that? Why would it be better? [It's not better. It's not better at all. They should be together and now he regrets that he didn't insist Inigo came with them.]

[flatteries]

I-- I promised Tidus. That I wouldn't bother him this mission.

[ And probably beyond that. Judging by how the other acted when they last saw each other, he figures he really screwed things up with the other forever. ]

And now Gerome is gone too, so.. I'm.. not really a fun person to be around right now in general. [ He laughs, but something about it rings a little hollow. ] I will deal with it by myself.

[longforgottenpromise]

Huh?

[Less even a word, more a sound of surprise.] You did? Did he ask that of you?

[There's something in his voice, it's not anger. But pain, pain that Tidus would do this to Inigo, pain that Tidus felt he had to push them away because...]

You shouldn't have to, you don't need to.

katy before you read this: just know i'm sorry

[flatteries]

[ There's a slight surprise noise, but then Inigo speaks up. Quickly. Almost a little too quick, like he's nearly stumbling over his own words in his haste to explain. Taiki may not be sounding angry, but it still feels like Inigo is getting Tidus into trouble here over something that is entirely Inigo's fault. ]

No, he.. he didn't. You know Tidus. He wouldn't.. [ Do something like that. Not to anyone who doesn't deserve it, anyway. ]

I was just.. an idiot. I-I knew we were supposed to leave him alone, but.. I just couldn't.. I thought of how I'd feel if I was feeling that bad and not talking to anyone, and it felt so unbearable to me..

[ The flimsy mask is slipping. There's nothing to see, obviously, but Inigo's voice makes it so obvious that he's started to cry. ]

S-So I still went to talk to him every day. Outside his door. And I should've known that it was annoying and a burden, and I should have stopped, but I was too stupid and I just kept going! So when I finally saw him before we headed out for the mission, he didn't even want to talk with me-- and I knew it was because I've been such a terrible friend who can't even respect the simplest of his wishes. I deserve it. [ He sucks in a shakey breath. ] So I-- I just told him that I wouldn't bother him. That he wouldn't have to hear anything from me anymore this mission. And he nodded, so.. that's what he wanted too. I screwed up a friendship. And it's all my fault!

[ Sure, he only said Tidus wouldn't hear from him anymore this mission, but why would anything change after that? Inigo can't take back what he has done. He really did have a swamp monster on the inside - his ugly, selfish, clingy heart that can't leave people alone even when they want to be. ]

Gerome disappearing like this.. It's probably fate's payback for me being an awful person. I'd just end up hurting you too if I were around you, Taiki. So it's-- it's better that I'm here. Alone. Where I can't hurt anyone.

[ He sucks in a breath, like he's about to say more. But it's just-- ] I.. I have to go.

[ The feed is cut.

Inigo knows. He's a coward, being too scared to face the fact that Taiki will tell him he's right. That he is a terrible friend. Inigo can't bear the thought of hearing that from Taiki of all people, the sweetest person he knows.

So he doesn't. ]

wow

[longforgottenpromise]

[He listened, listened and didn't interrupt even if he wanted to, even if his heart felt like breaking with every word Inigo says.

It is much the same with Taiki. He had pushed Tidus too far, hadn't respected his wishes and even pushed him to say too much, to tell him things he hadn't wanted to. Inigo wasn't the only person who had messed up his friendship with Tidus.

But Inigo wasn't an awful person, and he shouldn't be alone, he wasn't...

And then he's gone. Taiki instinctively found the name again, going to press it, but... Wasn't this just the same mistake again. Inigo didn't want to talk to him, he had hung up, because Taiki hadn't been able to... do anything, anything at all to help.

It was too much. First Tidus and now Inigo. Taiki brought his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around them. He shouldn't have thought he would be any better at making friends here, he had thought... But he was just as bad at being a friend as he was at being a kirin.