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CODE   🔋 12:34 AM

ASH STARMER

UNSETTLED HERO
GREEN NEWMAN

ADDRESS
DE CHIMA #004

MESSAGE
"This is Green. Sorry, I'm occupied at the moment. I'll call you back in a minute."

TEXT

CALL

VIDEO

Comments

[fettering]

you don't have to answer or anything like that, just
you're the only one i think i can ask?

do you ever think about dying?
not like wanting to or anything just what it means i guess?

[subroutined]

Oh.

Sort of. But not in the way you mean, I don't think.
I think about my friends dying a lot.

[fettering]

i don't have a soul so sometimes i think about what it's going to be like
to just stop existing altogether
are you going to be around a long time?

[subroutined]

Presumably. I'll be around long after everyone I know is gone.

But after that, it'll be like you said. I'll just stop existing forever.

[fettering]

does it scare you?

[subroutined]

A bit.
I don't want to die.

[ But then, how much of that is just him copying what the other Ash would think? ]

Although, sometimes I think I've already existed too long.

[fettering]

why would you think that?

[subroutined]

I'm already someone's second chance, aren't I?

[fettering]

not here, though
you're just you

[subroutined]

No, I suppose not.
But I won't be here forever.
Someday, the porter will get tired of me and send me back to the attic.

[fettering]

yeah
and i'll go back to lu, i guess

[subroutined]

At least, until then, we don't have to worry about what happens after we die.
Since the nanites will just bring us back.


...Somehow.

[fettering]

the nanite stuff doesn't make any sense to me tbh

[subroutined]

Me neither

Especially since I don't have any blood for them to go in.

[fettering]

omg i didn't even think about that
can you tell they're there?

[subroutined]

I can't network with them, if that's what you mean.
They're separate from my internal systems.

[fettering]

do you think they'll still be there when we get sent home?

[subroutined]

I don't know. That's a good question.

If they will, they probably won't work.
Don't you think?
They probably need the porter to do whatever it is they do.

[fettering]

i've never really thought about it before
idk how lu will take it that i've been changed like that

[subroutined]

Is there really anything they can do about it?
Could Lu take them out?

[fettering]

maybe?
he IS the devil

[subroutined]

Oh.

[ Somehow that fact had escaped Ash's notice. ]

Well, if anyone can, probably he could, right?

[fettering]

[ sorry, ash, he thought you knew.. ]

i thought i'd told you about him

he or raziel maybe
i mean if they actually care that much

[subroutined]

You'd mentioned him. Somehow I hadn't really realized he would be THE devil.

[fettering]

tbf i don't think he's usually what people expect anyway