SIRENSPULL - contact.

[reassures]

[Cue mechanical answering machine voice.]

"You have dialed the number for N-I-L-L. This person is unavailable. Please leave a message after the beep."

[...BEEP]

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[reassures]

[Nill doesn't believe the core was to blame for this at all, which is why she doesn't immediately catch on to what Seras means. But if that's what she wants to believe about this, then Nill will let her, because the truth (or what she thinks the truth is) isn't really all that much kinder.]

Thank you for coming.

[bloodthirsts]

[Seras smiles a little, bittersweet.] You were his friend too, I think his very best friend. And you're mine, Nill.

[She pauses to rub at her eyes, brushing away the moisture.] I... I feel like we should do something for Shika.

[reassures]

[Hah. Nill could never fill the gap that her senpai had left for Shika-- but shika had definitely been her best friend, if that was the right word to use. She's not sure it was, but it felt as close as you could get.]

Like what?

[bloodthirsts]

[Seras thinks about this for a moment.]

There's the memorial... [She brushes her fringe out of eyes, made redder from tears. She smiles a little.] Maybe we should spend an afternoon appreciating the clouds.

[reassures]

[The memorial didn't mean a great deal to Nill. It was just a stone, with the names of most (but not all) of her missing loved ones. She supposes it should mean something to her - that it should be a symbol, but it's just a rock.]

Clouds.

[bloodthirsts]

He liked watching clouds. [She says softly, or he had, once upon a time.]

[reassures]

He never stopped liking that.

[Life just got a little too heavy to sit outside and watch clouds. But they used to do that together a lot.]