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[soulsborderline]

[Audio, morning]

[An exhausted-sounding (for once) Asuka mutters over the phone.]

You know, I never really realized how much was involved with keeping an Evangelion running. The electrical power, the LCL, the mechanics, the cage...I mean, I know the requirements by heart, but...oh, dammit, you know what I mean.

Anyway, if the stupid Department of Homeland Security wants it, they can hold onto it while we're in this world I guess. It'd be overkill on Shadows anyway. At least if Angels show up here they'll have me and 02 to fight them with or something. They can't be any more incompetent than NERV, right?

I'm going back to bed and pretending this never happened. Stupid entry plug didn't even feel right...

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[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

I'm sorry.

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

The hell are you sorry for?

[breatheinthefog]

You drove it.

[crybabysister]

[ She already had a negative feeling from this girl, after all their first introduction started badly

but Ukraine isn't one to hold a grudge on someone she first meets ]

Ah- are you all right?

[greyerrant]

What happened? Where did your titan go?

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

You really liked it and you wanted to be able to ride it. I'm sorry that you can't.

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

Of course I can ride it! What the hell are you trying to say?!

[soulsborderline]

Well, it doesn't really work as well here.

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

You're sad for some reason, aren't you?

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

I'm pissed off because I still can't fight to my full capabilities without it, okay? I'm a pilot. That's who I am.

[soulsborderline]

I'm fine. What's it matter to you?

[soulsborderline]

Apparently private citizens aren't allowed to own giant unidentified cybernetic combat machines here. Which is bullshit. Isn't that in the American Second Amendment?

[breatheinthefog]

How so?

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

You seemed like who you are long before you got it back.

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[soulsborderline]

Don't get all philosophical on me. Obviously I am who I am, I just...

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

I'm sorry you're unhappy. That's why.

[soulsborderline]

It's not like I can tell without the instruments back at Central Dogma.

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

I'm not unhappy. Just angry.

[breatheinthefog]

But you can tell something's different. You just don't know what it is.

[soulsborderline]

...it felt cold.

[breatheinthefog]

Machines are cold.

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

They're similar.

[crybabysister]

I was only asking.

[greyerrant]

You can't have your own titan, imagine. In my time, such things are the purview of the Adeptus Mechanicus for a reason.

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[sandma]

The government has a way of overstepping it's bounds when it doesn't understand something. I wouldn't put too much faith in their competence.

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

Not really.

[soulsborderline]

I mean it felt different from normal once I got inside, okay? It's like...nothing was in the right place, or something.

[soulsborderline]

Maybe next time I'll ask for the NERV staff. Or Central Dogma.

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[soulsborderline]

Yeah, me neither.

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

Well, I wish you were happy, and you're not.

[breatheinthefog]

Hm. Strange.

[soulsborderline]

It sucked. I think this place might just be screwing with me.

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

Well too bad for you then.

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

Can I make you feel any better?

[Audio]

[soulsborderline]

You can leave me alone!

[Audio]

[heavenscorpse]

Okay. I'm sorry. [Click.]

[breatheinthefog]

Probably.

[soulsborderline]

Did you get anything from the stupid phone gift thing?

[breatheinthefog]

*Kaoru produces... a bag of fresh bread.

Yes, really.*

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[sandma]

I take it that this Evagelion was very important to you?

[soulsborderline]

...for the first time I don't know if you're an idiot or some kind of Dadaist genius.

Video

[soulsborderline]

Evangelion.

And yeah.

[breatheinthefog]

I didn't have much, and I was hungry. I don't really care what I get back.

[soulsborderline]

That's...practical.

[breatheinthefog]

*Shrug.*

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[sandma]

Are you planning to take it back?

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[soulsborderline]

If I need it.

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[sandma]

I doubt it needs to be said, but be careful if you do.