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[impure_tale]

Gad, has it truly been so long since I last penned an entry?

This is what happens when you forsake the modern conveniences for traditional parchment and ink, my lovelies. It escapes you. Am I very missed, I wonder?

(ooc: The Marquis has had time to lick his wounds, so to speak, but he's been fairly non-present elsewhere on the Barge. Attending meals but not much for conversation, walking his dog, and of course, humming in his room while he writes.)

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[surrenders]

[She's... kind of looking for an opportunity to talk to anyone that doesn't involve a particular third party. So you get this.]

Sometimes you got to get away from all this, right?

[impure_tale]

Much agreed, cheri. It's been a welcome release, to be perfectly honest.

[surrenders]

You haven't seemed much you, what I've seen. Think you might have needed that, there's enough goes on you'll go nuts if you try to get it all.

[impure_tale]

Do I detect a hint of concern?

[surrenders]

...if I think about it, yes.

[impure_tale]

I'm touched, truly.

[surrenders]

If I'd worked it out before you said something... [She leaves the implication there.]

You making it at all?

[impure_tale]

I'm...enduring.

[A smirk]

What were you going to say before?

[surrenders]

[She's got a good idea of what that means, but can't get into it quite yet.]

Tried to do what I could, is all. A place like this, you don't have people, you don't have anything.

[impure_tale]

And I would have been most fortunate, just as I am now. Thank you, cheri.

[surrenders]

...anything now you could need? A lot came up lately, I was gone a while.

[impure_tale]

This is hardly the first time I have watched a cherished friend move on without me, cheri. I doubt it will be the last. One takes time to grieve, takes pleasure in the company of friends new and old that still remain, and moves on, no?

[surrenders]

You have to keep going. Sometimes it's... you know how it is. [You've been here forever.] If it takes longer than you wanted it to.

[impure_tale]

You sound as though you might be experiencing similar circumstances.

[surrenders]

No. Just... been there, you know, and didn't know if it was forever or not. You got to think about the good parts, but not too hard.

[impure_tale]

As I often do, cheri. The writing helps.