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[goazon]

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no u

[apparare]

( In the interim, he's found other things to occupy his time, which means that this reply is not immediate in its timing. )

What.

[goazon]

You stand at the same sort of angle. Very slight but there.

[ Oh no there was no coy pause. ]

[apparare]

No one has ever described anything pertaining to me as 'slight.' How does someone stand at an angle?

( Leia would be appalled to hear about his posture. )

[goazon]

How can I explain this?

[ Then, most disastrously- ]

If we're ever in person on a break from all the hostilities I'll point it out.

[apparare]

( Error.exe )

How?

[goazon]

[ This is all terrible. ]

In our usual way? Dryly and with questionable timing.

[apparare]

How do you expect to be on a break from all the hostilities?

( - is not what he was asking and doesn't even sound grammatically accurate but oh well. He'll suffer the indignity for the sake of his pride. )

[goazon]

Pretending to try and kill each other is exhausting, eventually we'll have to catch our breath.

[ She needs so much more caf for this. ]

[apparare]

Is that how you think wars are won?

( Because. That's still kind of a big dividing line between them, for a myriad of reasons. )

[goazon]

This war doesn't end, it pauses.

[ It's all the same conflict, and it always has been just with new flags. ]

[apparare]

( Okay now he's actually annoyed. )

It pauses? Don't be obtuse. Wars don't stop because - ( Because what? They want to flirt with each other? Because that is what's happening here, and he's beginning to belatedly realize how irresponsible and idiotic this all is. ) - you want to explore the finer points of handwriting analysis.

[goazon]

How can you say this is any different than the last time there was war? It's the same thing. Light and dark, empire and rebels, the same strife, just a new banner. It never ended.

This isn't about you and I, this is about everything. Not everything is about whatever you and I think we're doing.

[apparare]

Your attitude it suggesting that you think it is all about us.

I offered you a solution to the problem that you posit. A way to make it right. A way to end it. Instead you chose to prolong this pattern of history repeating itself. Fine, but I will not be making the same mistake. This time, it will end.

[goazon]

What you offered was not the way forward for anyone except you, and you didn't want to find a real direction, you wanted to hang onto what it is you've suffered for.

I think we have a part to play in it, but it isn't about us.

[apparare]

You take great pleasure in assuming the intentions and trajectory of everyone else, don't you?

[goazon]

Like you don't do that.

[apparare]

I am not having this argument with you another time. If you want to fight, find something more original to bring up.

( Because he's not going to get into how little right she has to make conjectures about his inertia based on where he's been. Opening up a window back into Snoke is a privilege she isn't entitled to, now. )

[goazon]

I don't especially want to fight.

[ Just. WHAT DO YOU WANT KYLO. ]

[apparare]

( He doesn't respond for a long time, long enough that she might think he's deliberately avoiding answering or intentionally ignoring her, but not long enough that he's plausibly wandered away on some errand, although that is forthcoming. )

23 down. Prism.

[goazon]

[ Weird, weird, weird, and yet again - weird. Does that stop her from saying something in return? Not for much longer than a few moments. ]

That should have been obvious. You're better at this than I am.

[ Attached is a blank copy of the new puzzle of the day. ]

[apparare]

( To be fair, this is all weird, but it's not going away, is it? So. )

Are you getting these from a children's periodical?

[goazon]

They make those?

[apparare]

( SIGH. )

Maybe you should start there.

[goazon]

You'll solve it too quickly.

[apparare]

For you, not me.