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[vapidfloozy]

"Hello there! This is Inigo, and if you're a beautiful lady calling for a date, then I'm going to be kicking myself for missing the dulcet tones of your voice! Leave me a message of love, and I promise your sweet words will get my heart thumping in no time. I'll call you back as soon as I can!

...oh, and if anyone wants anything else, leave a message."

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Voice

[wyverns]

[This is such a terrible idea.]

...do you know who my father is?

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

Your father? Uh... why?

[He was really hoping this would be about girls. You know, a subject he knows alllll about. Parents, though... that's much more delicate.]

Voice

[wyverns]

He's here.

[Quiet, almost gritted out through his teeth.]

But he doesn't know me as his son.

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

[Inigo is silent for a moment. What can he say to that? He knows how he would feel in the same situation.]

He's... from a different timeline?

Voice

[wyverns]

Do timelines exist where our parents aren't- our parents?

[That's sort of horrifying.]

Timelines where we don't exist at all?

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

They must, right?

[But he doesn't really like that idea, either.]

But maybe he's just from earlier in the timeline. Maybe he hasn't, uh, had you yet. Or met your mom.

Voice

[wyverns]

He knows who I am. He's met me.

[Gerome sighs.]

-it was foolish to talk to you about this. You wouldn't know what to do any more than I.

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

Whoa, wait, don't hang up! I can at least listen, right?

I mean... you should talk about it. It'll help. Maybe I can help.

Voice

[wyverns]

Discussing it won't change anything. There's no point to it.

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

It might make you feel better.

Voice

[wyverns]

I don't feel anything.

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

Come on, Gerome, even you do. There's no way you'd be talking to me at all if this weren't a big deal.

Voice

[wyverns]

It's not.

[Quietly.]

I just wanted to know how you thought it might be possible.

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

Laurent should be here to ask, not me. You know I don't know a whole lot about that stuff.

But... maybe you should talk to Henry about it.

Voice

[wyverns]

That would accomplish nothing.

[He shakes his head.]

You're right. Speaking to you was a mistake.

Voice

[vapidfloozy]

Gerome! Come on. It would at least let him know. Maybe then he'd remember, or at least it wouldn't be weighing you down so much. You can't keep this stuff pent up inside forever.

Voice

[wyverns]

Hm.

[He has a feeling that Inigo's advice isn't going to change on the matter.]

I'll consider it.

[And with that, he cuts the feed.]