retrospec | POST ✦ STABBITY STAB (05/11)

[ guess what package ainsley got today!

a hint: something that's making her leave her apartment for the night because nope your way to nu uh avenue. it doesn't help the police's response to her concerns have been lukewarm at best.

ainsley has just enough time in between her frantic packing of her and kara's things to ask something urgent: ]

What do you think will be the quickest way to obtain some from of self-defence?

Martial arts? Learning how to use a gun? Just living in a bubble made of metal? Asking for myself and Kara here.

[ people she's close to also get a text from her after she posts this message. or this could be a misfire on her end with how quick she's trying to do everything at once and multitasking under stress has never been her strong suit.

whichever is the case someone will get this message: ]

Is it possible for me to stay at your place for a bit? If not now but in the future? I know Kara could be a sticking point but she's well-behaved and sweet and everything please I just really need somewhere else to be. I'll owe you big time.

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That's alright. I'll try to set up somewhere for you sleep for a few days or so. I can also ask my landlord regarding Kara to stay in my apartment as well. To be honest, she is somehow lenient to Modeste despite her scary appearance.

But what's the matter? Judging by your last post, you looked like you have a stalker problem.

I have a feeling that Kara may be a bit too much for your poor apartment. I mean you have Modeste to contend with as is! [ even now she's trying to make light of the situation... guess she's trying to find the silver lining somewhere. ]

But will it be fine for me to crash at your place in the future? Just in case? I think my parents will be fine with taking in Kara later down the line but right now I want her to be by my side.

After getting that knife sent to my apartment of all places, I would like to have a dog that could be mistaken as a guard dog or something. [ you know. for safety precautions. ]

[Now that she mentioned about his dragon, he realizes that she is right as he knows that Modeste's fearsome appearance will scare her poor pooch away.]

I'm okay with it. Besides, what are friends for?

[But before he types anything else, he is completely shocked at the reason behind her post.]

A knife?! Oh, don't tell me... Retrospec sent it to you, didn't they?

They did and can you believe that they didn't even bother to clean the blood off the blade? It's disgusting, to be frank.

[ and horrific the more she thinks about it. it's kind of terrifying for her to speculate on what this means, why this happened, and where this will go next. brrrr. ] Should I bring it with me? Just in case someone tries to break in and steal it so I don't have proof of this?

[One more reason that those strange folks at Retrospec are starting to worry him. He wants her to leave it because of her safety, but he didn't want that knife to go into the wrong hands.]

Those people...

I think for the time being, you should bring it with you for now. But did you clean it beforehand?

I didn't clean it.

I don't know why but when I went to do that I suddenly felt horrified and sad at the idea? Like it made sense to do it but it would be erasing something important. [ evidence? no, that's too logical.

what she felt was emotional. ]

[Hearing this made him reminded of how he found that strange stone a few months ago, which he also felt the same familiarity when he tried to put it in lost and found.]

Really? Does that mean you feel some kind of connection regarding your visions?

None of my visions so far have involved a bloody dagger. I'll like to keep it that way too.

This is starting to veer from fantasy-adventure to straight up horror. I went to the police and they said there's not much they can do. I just had to be careful for now and keep an eye out for strange things. [ honestly this is beginning to annoy her. a lot. she's doing her best to keep a level head but she's starting to also google 'deep breathing cycles' to do that. ]

I hope so.

Also, make sure you to watch your health as well. I don't want you to have a headache about your current situation.

If I get a headache from this I feel like it's a justifiable one to get, Augustus.

[ oh fuck. ]

[ now she has a headache as she tries to do something about that slip. fuck fuck fuck. ]

Augustine. My autocorrect got the better of me. Or something. I don't know.

[ fuuuuuuck. ]

[He became surprised at Ainsley's latest slip-up. If he remembers about their previous conversations, that was the same man who proposed to her in one of her visions.]

I understand, Ainsley.

I'm starting to think these visions are beginning to confuse our own sense of reality right now...

I'm not going crazy if that's what you're implying here.

I slipped up. That's it. There's no need to make a big deal out of it. Your names are just similar to each other and nothing more. Anyone would have made that mistake too if they were just as stressed as I was over a blood covered knife being sent to them.

[ r u ok ainsley. ]

Good point. But still, I'm just worried about your mental health, that's all.

[Thanks a lot, Ainsley. Now you made him worried about you!]

Maybe you should try to take a day-off or something to rest.

[ you know what.

she's not even going to respond anymore. ]

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