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[standalonehuman]

Togusa

This is Togusa. Feel free to message me at any time.

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[embraves]

i don't know
i've never seen one
doesn't mean i assume that there ISN'T one

[standalonehuman]

[You know, why don't we have a helicopter?]

I would say they could borrow one from Fort McCoy, but I've never seen one there, either.

[embraves]

don't they have chocobos or something now

[standalonehuman]

The Department does, I dunno about the army guys. But add that to the list of 'things I'd like to see.'

[All right. Time to take a page from Ardyn's book.]

So. Do we keep the game going, or do you give up on trying to figure out where your text went, instead of where you tried to send it?

[embraves]

what?

[Wait a second. He's confused, and it's only when he double checks the number this has gone to does he realize that he's been having an entire conversation with a stranger.]

crap
you couldn't have told me earlier?

[standalonehuman]

If it's any consolation, I don't know who this is, either. I was trying to see if you'd slip up and I could figure it out, but you haven't yet.

[embraves]

you could've just asked

my name is cloud.

[standalonehuman]

Wait. Cloud Strife?

Aw crap. I wasn't supposed to mess with you.

[embraves]

yeah, cloud strife.
you weren't "supposed" to? according to...?

[standalonehuman]

According to me.
Officer Hitori Togusa. Hi.
I am already in hot water with Prompto and I don't need more reasons for him to get mad at me.

[embraves]

shit
you're a cop?

[WHY]

all that stuff i wrote was just hypothetical, all right?

[standalonehuman]

Of course it was, because we proved it wouldn't work.

I'm not on Highway anyway.

[But I know someone who is~]

[embraves]

just pretend you didn't see any of this, okay
you're friends with my brother?

[standalonehuman]

[Fuck.]

so long as you pretend I don’t know what you just told me. Crap. I didn’t mean to find that out.

I honestly don’t know anymore. He’s very important to me but I think he just wants me to leave him alone.

[embraves]

fine by me. pretending all around.

why? did something happen?

[standalonehuman]

Yeah. It’s all my fault, I keep butting into his life where he doesn’t need help or treating him like he cant take care of himself.

My problem. It’s all right.

[embraves]

i can talk to him about it if you want
i know that's probably the opposite of not "butting in" but prompto doesn't seem like the type who would hold a grudge...

[standalonehuman]

It’s not even really a grudge, it’s just that every conversation with him turns awkward. Things just end up happening.

This conversation is the best example: whoops, hey, Prompto, I found out on accident you have a brother! I have to go explain that to him before he finds out some other way.

[embraves]

believe me
it's not like he kept it a secret

[standalonehuman]

Except he did from me. When I asked him about you, he wouldn't tell me why he was looking for you.

[embraves]

...oh
that doesn't sound like him to me, like i said
to hold a grudge like that

what *exactly* happened between you two, then?

[standalonehuman]

What started it off was someone coming to me about something that Prompto explicitly told him not to tell anyone about. And then I got overbearing about it. And then every time I check in on him afterwards it comes off as being more overbearing.

I can't really tell you more than that without betraying Prompto's trust again.

Please don't follow up with him about it. Even telling you this much might be too much.

[embraves]

...if you say so
seriously, though, he hasn't even mentioned it to me
if it's something that's still bothering him, i'd be able to tell

he wears his heart on his sleeve

[standalonehuman]

He does. It’s something to admire.

I’ll at least go ahead and break the news that I found out about you. I’ll have to see where things go from there.

[embraves]

better to start somewhere
than to sit on it forever and do nothing, right?