What rock did you crawl out from under, good sir - and more importantly, can I put you back?

[oceansbane]

And a good morning to you, too, Mundane - if only in a ridiculously technical sense.

Don't think that I haven't seen the irony; I already know what you're going to tell me. After all of the yelling I've done to be let off that island - after all the bargaining, negotiating, flat-out threatening that I've done...after all of that, you think I've come crawling back. To ask you to be let back on.

And you know what? I'm a reasonable man on good days. And today has been a good day. So maybe I'll let you have your little point. But this issue runs far, far deeper than that, and you know it.

Five months since the last time I had to give you a few small suggestions, isn't it? And I haven't been seen since. Did you really think that I would just fall silent? That you could forget about Team Magma - about my goals? That I would let you forget?

Because if that's the case, then you don't know me at all anymore.

So start reading, Mundane. It's been a while since I've been so close to the surface here, and once we're done having this little chat, we've got a lot of reminiscing to do.

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[must_do_well]

But what?

[[Blunt, to the point.]]

[magmaticflamberge]

... I miss him. I miss him horribly.

[must_do_well]

So what, makin' him uncomfortable is the answer?!

[magmaticflamberge]

I suppose it is not.

But you must have better things to do than deal with me. Your time is far more valuable than mine is. I will bother you no more.

[must_do_well]

Whatever ya say, Edmond. I don't wanna have to do this again.

[oceansbane]

Don't start with that.

No, really. Don't start with that. If he had anything better to do with his time, I would have ordered him to do it a while back. What he's doing is defending me from you. Don't you ever think for one second that you have the right to tell him that he has better things to do with his time; he's doing exactly what he's supposed to do.

[magmaticflamberge]

Maxie, I...

... I apologize. You felt threatened, did you not?

... I say a lot of things that I don't mean. I... I suppose I am still as pusillanimous as always, after all...

... Things are never going to be right between us again, are they?

[oceansbane]

Less pusillanimous, more completely insane. And coming from me, that means something, particularly if I'm willing to take the personal insult just to point it out. And things certainly aren't going to fix themselves if you keep pulling stunts like that.

What did you expect to get out of that, anyway? No, really. I'm curious now. Cause. Effect. Where was that going. I want to hear this.

[magmaticflamberge]

... Maxie, don't... don't think much of anything I said, please.

Sometimes, I... sometimes I say things just because of how dramatic they sound. I... I merely thought you would like me more if I tried to be more assertive. That... is really all that there is.

[oceansbane]

[...okay, that's...

...uh.]

...what.

[magmaticflamberge]

Th-there's no way you're ever going to like me again, is there?

But it's so hard to forget you, Maxie...

[oceansbane]

[Oh, facepalm.]

...now, this - this is pusillanimous.

[magmaticflamberge]

... It is, isn't it... I... I am very sorry, Maxie.

[oceansbane]

You always are.

Prove that you've actually learned something and maybe I'll start listening to you.