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[cactusy]

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audio

[cactusy]

Kinda curious about how you expected it to happen, now. But, uh-- vent about what?

Re: audio

[unfavorableinstigation]

Just - death tolling in general, really?

[It's one of the few Struggles of the Barge Nita hasn't experienced personally, by this point. The least she can do is be a good ear if it's desired.]

audio

[cactusy]

It's a pain in the ass, but it's basically the flu, yeah? And it goes away in a week whether I baby it or not.

Re: audio

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita would side-eye, but this isn't video.]

... You're used to dying from before this, then?

[Meaning the Barge.]

I know if I downplayed how I felt if this happened to me, I'd get backtalk from one end of the ship to the other.

audio

[cactusy]

If you downplayed how you felt if this happened to you, you really would be downplaying, though, right? Repressing to an unhealthy degree?

Re: audio

[unfavorableinstigation]

... It's most worth being honest if we're still in the middle of a fight of some kind. No sense pushing myself and being worse than dead weight, y'know?

But when things are less high-key, well. I've avoiding bringing up some pretty heavy things before, just because I was stuck in my own head, or wanting to ignore it.

[And wanting certain things to not be true didn't change the facts any.]

audio

[cactusy]

Okay. That makes sense.

I'm not doing that.

Re: audio

[unfavorableinstigation]

... You had someone waiting bedside, huh?

[Better to have been beaten to the punch than for no one to show, Nita supposes.]

Having people who show up anyway tends to make a difference.

[It had for her.]

audio

[cactusy]

I did, yeah.

Thing is, though, I'm not like you.

Re: audio

[unfavorableinstigation]

And?

Are you saying that because what I'm saying doesn't matter, or that the words just... aren't the right fit, for you?

[She Does Not Want to overstep, here.]

audio

[cactusy]

I'm not saying it doesn't matter.

[That, at least, is easy to say with certainty.]

Just that this stuff doesn't affect me the way it affects other people, so you don't have to worry about me, okay?

Re: audio

[unfavorableinstigation]

Well, you're still going to get people who worry.

[Courtesy of the Barge's own odd friendship-fomenting environment.]

So don't be too, uh, surprised or anything, okay?

audio

[cactusy]

Yeha, okay, but I'm gonna keep telling you that you don't have to.