Henley reacts to her reserve at Teleios | Canon: Now You See Me

[henleyreeves]

A redemption game?

Out of all the games you could send me to you chose a redemption game. You do know all the things I've done in my life, right? Of course you do, you know my life just as well as I do. Once you send me there I have a feeling I'm going to be there for a long time.

I guess you could be sending me to worse places and at least there'll be people I know there. But I'm still not happy about it.

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... hopefully you don't mind. And I don't look like a creepy stalker.

[onebehind]

I'd say it's not that bad, but that'd be a pretty hard line to sell, even for me.

[he was blind for a week, Henley. blind. not to mention the part where someone drugged the booze at the local bar on Halloween and he ended up spilling his guts to a bunch of strangers. and ... ]

pfft I don't mind in the slightest!

[henleyreeves]

(henley straightens up a little when she hears his voice. even though he's bringing...not so good news it's good to see one of those 'people she knows' even if she doesn't know him well.

blind? drugged alcohol? this is not good news...)

Well, if you can't even sell it then it doesn't look too good, does it? (After a pause) So, it's really that bad? In that case I might change my mind about the whole 'there's worse places you could send me'.

[onebehind]

It's really that bad. [did he mention the part where some guy he's getting close to Papa Bearing got turned into a statue?] Mostly.

[he did get his magic back, though -- his actual magic, since the asshole behind the curtain the mun is convinced that real magic just might be a thing in their universe -- and that's good, but]

Apologies for the late. And I really need to get on with this app...

[henleyreeves]

Mostly? Is this the part where you tell me going to this place isn't going to be all bad?

(because yeah, that's what she's hoping right about now. but then she catches a couple of stray thoughts from her mun and her eyes widen. looks like she's found out about all your lovely experiences there without you even having to tell her, Dylan.)

...Wait a minute. You were blind for a week and-- (she's not even going to continue, she's just going to let out a groan) I suppose you don't have any tips when it comes to trying to talk your mun out of doing something, do you?

No worries. I'm a little slow myself, what with the holiday coming up.

[onebehind]

[he lets out a breath of a laugh, though the sound is largely without humor, and starts to tell her that, yeah, this is the part where he tells her it's not all bad. he stops when she goes on, however, and hums instead]

Yeah. [a beat] And yeah, no, I got nothing. They more or less do what they want, when they want, to hell with us.