too much excitement - always at capeandcowl

[hacktivist]

There is no logical reason you should wish to bring me to any additional universe, particularly one without Max--or Stark--in it. Additionally, I have my hands full completely with the one I am currently in. Your habit of overloading yourself with commitments you cannot handle is well documented.

Ensure you can handle what you have at this time, and speak with me again in the future. Your enticements are insufficient, and my presence is desired elsewhere - your request for my compliance is denied.

Our working relationship thus far has been a successful one. I wouldn't like to see this change.

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[motherofnemesis]

All business all the time, huh.

[hacktivist]

[uncertain pause]

..your presence would validate some pleasure.

[motherofnemesis]

I'm not the person you would want me to be.

[hacktivist]

I feel that what I would want might surprise you.

[motherofnemesis]

Very little surprises me anymore.

[hacktivist]

Would it surprise you if I told you I wished only to improve your current emotional standing?

I ask for nothing.

[motherofnemesis]

My emotional standing is fine. I'm fine.

[ no comment on whether she finds that surprising. ] Maybe you should be.

[hacktivist]

I see.

You have become a better liar.



What should I ask for?

[motherofnemesis]

The truth has simply become less believable.



What do you want?

[hacktivist]

Your grasp of personal perspective borders on the poetic.


Of unreasonable demands? Your trust.

[motherofnemesis]

Does it?

I don't distrust you, Ghost. I'm not capable of it.

[hacktivist]

This address to my mun has accomplished the opposite of what I intended. She is now twice as determined to home us together.

...oh...

[motherofnemesis]

They're contrary like that. Mine has been set on it for far too long. Informing them of the potential problems and inevitable pain for everyone involved only makes them more determined.

What else would you ask for?

[hacktivist]

And she feels she would be able to handle this adequately, despite the enormous level of juggling it would take, and that she even currently is attempting to maintain a larger influx of activity than she can manage. ..."Inevitable pain": re, remembering young Max in contrast to what you have become?

Things I have no business even being lent.

those potatoes are not boiled yet i can tag for a minute right...

[motherofnemesis]

Yeah, she does. [ Watch her skip right over that second question. ]

You don't have to be cryptic with me.

oooh

[hacktivist]

...hm.

Your affection.

[motherofnemesis]

That's all?

You have that a thousand times over.

[hacktivist]

Heheh...heheh, heh.

What would you not wish me to ask for?

[motherofnemesis]

I don't know.

I don't know.

[hacktivist]

I will never desire you to leave, Max.

[motherofnemesis]

I hope that remains the truth.