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[gunslingerqueen]

riko @cosmicqueen richard is gone. this is not okay and I will not pretend to be okay with it. you can't just take my family from me. #igiveup #happynewyear #not

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[gunslingerqueen]

[That response pisses her off, frankly. It's not my nature isn't an answer, it's an excuse. There's a bitter kind of jealousy that comes with hearing Greg's name, though it makes sense in as many ways. She has to swallow all of that down, turning her eyes away from her friend and just ... Deciding that this isn't the battle worth having at the moment. It's easier to feel like a shit friend than it is to argue about ending up one.]

Did it help you?

[It isn't a question to be flung back, it's honest. Meril had been with Greg the whole time and was calm enough to come out here and have a whole talk.]

[nibelungvalesti]

...It kept things from getting worse, Nariko. To be honest, we are embarrassments who have handled this terribly poorly. Do you know, in the past month I have leveled a Battlecraft character all the way to 100? [Meril chuckles, a hollow and humorless tone.] There have been days where I woke up, took my laptop to the living room, laid on the couch, and played until it was time to go to sleep. If Greg hadn't been there, I would have probably forgotten to eat.

But he was, and it helped. I am not familiar with accepting such help... and to be honest, I am not good at offering it either. I do not know what I can do to help you, but... I will do it, if it is within my power. Whether that is listening, or counseling, or hugging, or what have you.

[The thing is... it isn't in Meril's nature to speak openly of all of this. She is emotionally closed, empathically blocked, unaccustomed to friendship, and the sort of girl one hesitates to hug without asking first.]

[But maybe it had been that terrible month, or maybe the images that kept trickling into her head are breaking her down, or maybe just because Nariko is a friend and in pain. Really, the answer is somewhere in between. Nariko asks, and Meril answers. Much more honestly than the Ice Queen normally would.]