IC Contact for Sav

[coercive]

[Good luck knowing whether or not you're actually contacting her, because there's just silence on her end of things. She's able to receive voice, video, and text messages; but she may or may not respond.]

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[el_paso]

Didn't have much of a choice. I tripped over it.

[coercive]

Did it hurt like a bitch?

[A chance to use the phrase her new pal taught her.

[el_paso]

[ ...what. Hang on, while he flounders for a sec and rallies. ]

You're damn right it did. Where the Hell did you hear that?

[coercive]

Eddie.

[He's teaching her English, remember?]

It's like a simile. Or metaphor.

[el_paso]

Simile. Anything else this Eddie kid's teaching you?

[coercive]

How to ride a bike. Why?

[el_paso]

Because I don't know this kid.

And don't use words like that in polite company, alright?

[coercive]

Is Charles polite company? Or just family?

[el_paso]

Both.

[coercive]

Do you want to meet Eddie?

[el_paso]

Yeah. I'd like to.

[coercive]

[She considers telling him no, just because she isn't sure Eddie's ready for that kind of thing.]

Soon. When he is ready you can meet him.

[That's as good as her agreeing.]

[el_paso]

[ dry, ]

I'm not gonna rip this kid's head off. Thought you knew me better than that.

[coercive]

He will be afraid of you anyway. He's afraid of many things.

[Like germs. And dying. And hurting himself. ]

But I will ask him to see you.

[She figures her dad's pretty intimidating looking to other people.]

[el_paso]

Good.

[ ...and because "she can be better than you" still haunts him: ]

Thank you.