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[fulllifeconsequences]

Speak.

[Wow okay cool voicemail there Chara. Voice/text/video away to your heart's content.]

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[fulllifeconsequences]

[There are a lot of words Chara doesn't trust, especially not when they come from humans. "Sorry" happens to be one of those.]

You're not really messaging because you're sorry. Feel free to get right to the point.

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[mypartnerintime]

[Is this kid some sort of mind reader too!?

Okay. Be honest. Be calm. The reply comes after a few minutes, as she tries to figure out exactly what she's feeling.]

I am sorry. Obviously I said something wrong the other day, and it got out of hand. I don't want you to think that I don't take you seriously.

And at the same time I don't want anything bad to happen to me or my friends.

[fulllifeconsequences]

You're texting to tell me you're afraid of me?

You didn't need to say so for me to know that.

[mypartnerintime]

[Craaaap that is so frustrating, who the heck is this kid? But it's also true, at least partly, so... so she's going to go with it. Though, as before and probably with the next texts, whole minutes pass before she replies.]

I guess it was obvious from day one.

I don't want there to be any bad blood between us.

[What she really, really wants to say deep down is, how much do I have to worry about you killing me? But she'll just have to figure that out on her own.]

[fulllifeconsequences]

Funny. Everything I said about changing your tune. About wanting to save your own neck.

It came a lot more quickly than I thought. Whatever happened to calling bullshit, Max?

[mypartnerintime]

[That brings her up short - is that really what's happening here? She looks back on their other conversation. Either way, whatever she says now... she has to be careful.]

I'm not saying I think you're evil Chara. Maybe you can be, but that doesn't mean you are.

I'm just asking you not to hurt me and my friends. Please.

[fulllifeconsequences]

["I'm not saying you're evil, but please don't hurt me." Ha. Does she realize how that sounds? Hollow. Hypocritical. Her so-called apology has nothing to do with whatever she claims to think about Chara and everything to do with trying to protect herself from them.

Even before they've sunk a knife into anyone in the mansion, even with the tentative truces they've offered so far, they're already exactly what they've been all along. Creepy. A danger. A threat. An anomaly.

This is a waste of time. Empty, insincere words won't sway them one way or another. Who cares about Max, anyway? Not Chara. Chara doesn't care about anything.]

I see no reason to listen to anything you have to say.

[mypartnerintime]

[She knows it sounds dumb. Pouring over the text before sending it, she saw how it could be taken. But it is the truth.

Never confuse art with the artist, was a lesson drilled into her early on in Blackwell Academy. Monochrome pictures - of dead birds, graves - float in her thoughts. Maybe she could never forgive that particular photographer. But did she think he was evil, even after all of the pain and death he'd caused?

No.

Though in all honesty, someone doesn't have to be evil for you to hate them.]

I know I haven't given you much reason to. But maybe I can.

[fulllifeconsequences]

Not interested. Leave me alone.

[mypartnerintime]

[Wow that... is not what she expected. Their last conversation was full of heated words and anger. That's what she thought would happen this time- accusations, threats.

But those two sentences seem much more like the childlike insecurity, even independence, of the Chara she'd gotten to know so briefly.

Max will grant that request. And she's glad that she caught a glimpse of what she hopes is Chara's... human side.

And, hopefully, that's also their safer side.]

Okay, Chara. Thanks for replying anyway..