OFFICE HOURS

[didntgetdadslooks]

Got something you want to say to your good friend The Professor's Assistant? Come on in, don't be shy! Her official hours are daylight hours - girl has to sleep? after all, probably - but if you knock on the door at night she'll generally answer. Please just make sure to leave the in-game date and time in the header of your toplevel!

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Comments

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Angel nods. ]

I cannot directly lie to you, no.

[bolderfell]

Right. So. Not as much of a chance as it could've been, believing you.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ She lets out a small flat laugh. ]

I guess so. But... trusting me has historically been kind of a bad move. Not even for you guys, just... before all this. So I guess I'm not an expert, but I'd like to trust people where I can.

[bolderfell]

I...

I don't know how much you know about us. If you were part of those "observations" they did before we were brought here. But if you don't know, I'm... not a trusting person, Angel. Haven't been for a damn long time.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ She nods. ]

I know. And that's okay. But I'm... I want to be a trusting person. At least sometimes.

[bolderfell]

[It feels like he's been asking her the same question this whole time, but it's the one word filling his head.]

...Why?

[didntgetdadslooks]

I know it's kind of a non-answer, but why not?

[bolderfell]

Trust only ever gets you hurt.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Hm.

[ she thinks for a few moments ]

I'll agree that it can. Someone I trusted used me to... well, to do a lot of really bad things, let's put it that way. But other people trusting me was the only way I could get out of that.

[ "Hey Angel there's a lot of key details you're leaving out of this" "Maybe so" ]

I just don't want to live in a world where no one ever trusts each other. And I say that as someone who some people wouldn't blame for not trusting anyone ever again.

[bolderfell]

...I'm such a fool. [It's barely a whisper.] Putting myself in this position again.

[He's really struggling, fam.]

I can't let them find me, because if they--apologize, or try to comfort me, or--anything like that. I couldn't take it. Not... not today.