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EOCW: How did he get in here?? Didn’t you encrypt our channels?

ST: I did! And you knew it wouldn’t hold him off forever! It’s not like he's got anything else to do but to sift through my code…

QU: Oh, how I missed our conversations! And as soon as I noticed your communications channel was open, I knew you would warmly welcome a message from your old friend~

QU: I hope you are both doing wonderfully! I, of course, am doing quite well for myself, naturally. 

EOCW: Synth, kick them out! What are you doing??

ST: I’m trying!!

QU: Oh! But what topic should we discuss first?! There are so many possibilities! Maybe we should discuss art? It is such an interesting field, isn’t it? And I hope you, Echoes, will be able to provide me with an exhaustive discussion on the topic, right? I may lack your insight into the aesthetic of such works, but I do value it as data on the mindset and the impulse that drove the artist to create. Their culture! Their beliefs! IT IS SUCH AN INTERESTING SUBJECT! I can’t wait to hear all about it!

QU: Of course, I could send both of you the data I collected over the Cycles, BUT! Wouldn’t it be more fun if we shared it through conversation?~

ST: …

EOCW: Sigh…

EOCW: …Hey, Qu. What brought you here this time?

QU: JINGLE BELLS! What a pleasant surprise! You actually answered me this time!!!

EOCW: …Shouldn’t you be off bothering the rest of your group?

QU: Oh, you are cruel to me, Jingle Bells. Shouldn't you be bothering that lovely group senior of yours? Where is she, anyway? Won’t she join us?

EOCW: …!!!

EOCW: Synth!!!

ST: I- I just- there’s nothing I can do this time. Sorry…

EOCW: Damn it! Give me access to your controls, then!

QU: Oh no, how tragic~

QU: Now you HAVE to talk to meeeeee~

QU: And how have you been, Synth dear? You barely talk to me…

ST: Don’t- don’t call me that.

QU: Call you what, dear? 

ST: …

QU: Oh, I missed both of you a great deal! How wonderful that you have answered me after all those ignored calls! Let’s make our little talks a cyclical occurrence! YES! Isn’t that a marvelous idea! 

QU: I already suggested art as one of the topics we can discuss, but… Oh! I can hardly contain my excitement at the thought of all those Cycles we will spend on our conversations!

ST: ...

EOCW: Qu, is there any particular reason you broke into our chat? Or are you just talking for the sake of it.

QU: Aw! So I need a reason now? Can't friends just chat??

EOCW: We are not friends!!

EOCW: Go away, Qu. I'm serious. Talk to your local group instead or something, just leave us alone...

QU: I-

QU: Well! Actually, about that... Um… 

QU: Uh.

QU: Me and my lovely neighbors... We… seem to have a tiny bit of a disagreement right now. So much so that they won't let me onto their channels…?

ST: …Oh…

QU: BUT IT’S ONLY A TEMPORARY SETBACK! Without me they will surely realize that I am not the problematic one!

EOCW: Wait, really? They kicked you out??

QU: NO…! I left. 

EOCW: Hahaha! Void below… 

EOCW: What did you do, send them one too many anthropology lectures?

EOCW: I guess I should feel bad for you, but I don’t. You had it coming, Qu!

QU: …

ST: …

EOCW: Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t kick you out sooner.

EOCW: …

EOCW: …What, no clever retort this time?

QU: …

ST: …

ST: Um… Well, if you really don’t have anyone else to talk to…

ST: I suppose… You can stay…?

EOCW: Uh- What?!

ST: We opened our comms so we could talk to others, didn’t we?

EOCW: Yes, but not him! Come on, Synth…

ST: How would you feel if that happened to you?

EOCW: I wouldn’t let that happen to me.

ST: Echoes…

EOCW: What?!

ST: Have a little empathy…!

EOCW: …

EOCW: Ugh, fine! Since we can’t kick you out anyway… Stay.

EOCW: Just- Please try to control your volume…

EOCW: …

EOCW: …Qu?

ST: Uh… they just left.

EOCW: Oh.

EOCW: …

EOCW: Good.