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[ezra_of_lothal]

"I'm Ezra Bridger and this is my communicator thing. Leave a message!"

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[lightthedarkness]

Well, it's been better. Mina-chan went home.

[ezra_of_lothal]

I'm sorry to hear that. People you care about leaving your life always sucks.

[lightthedarkness]

[More and more of her loved ones keep leaving...]

If it got easy, it wouldn't really be me anymore. Grief is just... love with no place to go.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Yes. [To say much more would just be platitudes, Erzra thinks.]

Would you like some company? And if not right now, let me you would like it, ok?

[lightthedarkness]

I... no, it's okay, you probably have holiday stuff to do with the others.

[ezra_of_lothal]

Not really? I mean, I did stuff with Sanctuary crew.

[lightthedarkness]

Did you have fun? [While the question IS sincere, it's also her attempting to alter and change the subject away from her own issues.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

I did. Had a bit of a sad, too because Obi-wan has never been Ben Bridger and does not remember family holidays-

That's just how our weird lives go. I didn't even want to try to pretend.

[lightthedarkness]

I understand being sad that you don't have that relationship anymore, but there's nothing stopping you from making new ones and celebrating as you both are.

It seems a little unfair to Obi-Wan to have these expectations when he can't be that person.

[ezra_of_lothal]

I'm not upset *with* him, Usagi. We do plenty of things together. He's just not big on holidays. That's not how he was raised.

He's Jedi in this life, not Jewish.

[lightthedarkness]

[The hard thing about text is that you can't read tone, so Usagi is trying not to take this as being snapped at. She sighs and takes deep breaths. She's sure Ezra isn't snapping at her...

Right?

No no, he's not. But still... She... clearly said something wrong.]

Sorry.

Voice; un: lothrat

[ezra_of_lothal]

[He stares at that one word response for a while. And then re-reads his response right before a couple of times.

Had he been harsh? He didn't think he had been, but he was a little...hurt at what had felt like an accusation of the very thing he's put no small effort into not doing to Obi-wan, since he day he got here, while scrambling to keep up as the man when through lift changing memory dumps,-

Unfairly putting expectations on him.

And now Ezra worried he's shut her down so hard when she's clearly not in a great place, herself.

He takes some slow breaths and then call on voice, hoping she'll be willing to pick up.

So, no not angry sounded at all, but he's not sure how good a job he does as keeping tired and sad about his tone-]

Hey.

You ok?

Voice; UN: Cuddlebunny

[lightthedarkness]

[She hears the tiredness and the sadness, she's not about to add her issues to his pile. She puts a smile in her voice.]

I am, yeah.

Don't worry.

Sorry again about what I said.