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[14thcommander]

It's Hange, Hange, Hange! Were you looking for me? I'll get back to you posthaste. Or when it's convenient.

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[therushingsky]

Rhys laughs, a tiny explosion of loose relief, before his mood settles a little bit.

"Haa-- that asshole. I can't believe he just bailed on us."

Thinking of Betelgeuse alive and on a pleasure cruise or something, It's so much less bad than thinking of him-- reset. As lonely as he was before he arrived.

Still, it's not great. He takes another drink.

[tetractys]

"OR HE GRADUATED AND THEN, FELL OFF THE SHIP, LIKE WARDENS CAN DO TOO."

Bill is back in the rafters, has skipped the straw, and is drinking straight from the blender.

[14thcommander]

"You're right. It'd be - really unlike him to leave his friends." Leave us, she doesn't say. She asks the Admiral about it.

[therushingsky]

Rhys, who is still reeling from being kinda proto-dumped by Betelgeuse before the mirror event, just kind of shrugs.

"I don't know. Pretty sure graduates get to choose where they go.
And he was very much mid-freak-out at the time."

And he's selfish - Rhys doesn't say out loud.

Either he loves you, or you're background noise.

[tetractys]

"HE WAS?"

[14thcommander]

"Can you talk us through exactly what happened, Rhys?"

[therushingsky]

"Sure."

Another drink for the story? Don't mind if he does.

"He came to my cabin to apologise for the whole-- vampire sex shit. We had this whole talk about it and he was really emphatic about making it right and not doing it again and making it up to me, and how he didn't care about sleeping with sexy boy vampires anymore, he only wanted me, yadda yadda yadda..."

Just going to knock back his drink, before coughing a little, wiping his mouth on his sleeve.

"So-- I forgive him, and we talk about how he's going to turn human again. And we talk about how excited he is, and then-- it happened. Big light show, like you'd expect from him, and then he's on the bed, and his hair is all soft, and he-- he can tell what he smells like for the first time, and he was just--"

Rhys crinkles his nose, thinking about it.

"Disgusted. Just instantly disgusted. And then he started crying, and apologising, and talking about what a monster he was. I don't know. It happened pretty quickly, maybe he said he had to get out? But I just thought he meant-- go back to his cabin, or spend some time in zero or something. Then he said he loved me, and then he vanished."

He tops his glass up again. Rhys's voice has gotten pretty fucking hazy at this point, but the booze is also going down a lot quicker now that he's already pretty far along.

"Said his name a few times, then I messaged Hange."

[tetractys]

"AND THAT'S WHAT GRADUATED HIM."

[14thcommander]

"It sure looks that way. We talked about doing this, him trying out human form for a while. I asked the Admiral to do it. That's the last thing I did for him."