❝ A hierarchical society was only possible ❞

[dedicateyourheart]

{ on a basis of poverty and ignorance }
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[incitement]

Good. If I find out you've told anyone, you can find yourself a new nightmare of a friend to keep your stress at an all time high :)

[dedicateyourheart]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think Mom and my sisters are already aware. :D

[incitement]

WHAT??
Look, I made my terms clear. I think that means it's time to end the friendship. I'm sorry it had to happen like this.

[dedicateyourheart]

Joke's on you, chief. I'm like herpes. You may think I'm gone, but I always come back.
Besides, family dinners will be super awkward if we break up now.

[incitement]

In order for you to come back, you have to go away first! LOL
Family dinners will only be awkward if we're both there.
So nothing has to change, really. It's not like it would be the first time I've had dinner with your family without you ;)

[dedicateyourheart]

You do enough going away for the both of us.
SCANDLOUS! How dare you come home and not tell me!

[incitement]

Ouch.
I always tell you! There have just been times when your sisters got to me first.

[dedicateyourheart]

UH-HUH. And how exactly did they know you were home?

[incitement]

A little bird told them.

[dedicateyourheart]

A little bird indeed.
You're not fooling anyone, chief.

[incitement]

...a little bird who happens to look and sound a lot like me.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't sometimes text your sisters while I'm away. And that sometimes leads to at least one of them being the first to learn that I'm home.

[dedicateyourheart]

So you don't actually care about your safety at all. I see, I see.

[incitement]

Of course I do!

[ ...well... ]

[dedicateyourheart]

(( Can you feel Esen giving a stern look at the words on his screen? ))

I'm glad you get on so well with them. They care about you very much.

[incitement]

[ oh he can feel it alright!

and just to prove how important his own safety is, he just got back from hooking up with a bounty hunter! wait...

his own safety actually does matter to him, despite how it often seems. because it matters to the rebellion. so many depend on him. so many people put their own health and safety on the line to make sure that insu remains safe. so it matters to him, just maybe not on a personal level. not as much as it should ]

I care about them too. I care about them a lot. I hope they know that.

[dedicateyourheart]

Since I'm around them more often than you are, I feel confident in saying that they do. They ask about you often. THey know better than to ask for specifics, but it's usually things like 'have you heard from him late? is he doing okay?

[incitement]

Good.

[ they are some of the few he gets to care about personally, after all ]

I'm sorry I've become such a topic for discussion at your place, though. LOL

[dedicateyourheart]

I would think my family was replaced by clones if they weren't asking about you every now and then.

(( Weekly. It's weekly, at least. ))

[incitement]

[ 'now and then' huh?? ]

You know, it's kind of nice knowing that someone outside of the cause asks about me :)

[dedicateyourheart]

Don't be ridiculous. You know they love you like family.

[incitement]

I love them like family too.
I love that I can go to your place and get treated like family instead of

[ there are certain things he won't say over text. but it's not as though they both don't know how that sentence ends ]

[dedicateyourheart]

You're always family to us, chief.

[incitement]

My surrogate family :)

[dedicateyourheart]

All the more reason you shouldn't talk about not seeing us anymore.

[incitement]

But going full, no-contact is just part of the family experience.