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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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[heirrant]

[A letter addressed to Reira appears at his shared home address. Given that there is no address or stamp it was evidently delivered by hand, and a sharp nose might detect the scent of wolf about it.

The hand in which it is written is unfussy but tidy.]

I'm sorry for what happened during the full moon. I wasn't myself.

- K.S.
018.03.139.88

<CCC-REDHORSE>

[soft_focus]

[Not long after getting the note, Ataru get's a message through the address sent.]

I thought that was the fog's fault?

[WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE HAS THE MOON TO WORRY ABOUT-]

<vortexman>

[heirrant]

I'm a werewolf. The phases of the moon can affect my behaviour.

It's never been that severe before.

<CCC-REDHORSE>

[blurspot]

Maybe it was both then.

<vortexman>

[heirrant]

Very possible.

Thank you for replying, by the way.

<CCC-REDHORSE>

[blurspot]

Do people not reply normally?

<vortexman>

[heirrant]

Given what happened, you were under no obligation to speak to me again.

<CCC-REDHORSE>

[soft_focus]

I thought we were just playing tag though.

You didn't hurt me, so why wouldn't I talk again?

[He was, admittedly, undead and thus not likely to feel he would die of something like getting his throat slit. ....At least not immediately. It'd probably interfere with eating, that.]

<vortexman>

[heirrant]

I was hunting you. If I'd had the energy, I would have killed you.

[It makes him feel faintly ill to confess as much to such a young child.]

<CCC-REDHORSE>

[soft_focus]

[...But how??]

How?

Everyone already tells me I'm already dead.

[It's actually strangely nice for someone to side more with his 'deadish' than everyone's 'dead'.]

<vortexman>

[heirrant]

Your body may not be alive in the same way as other people's, but you're here with us now and that's what counts.

I could have torn you apart and ended all of that.

<CARD-00-10>

[soft_focus]

Oh.

It's okay I know how to stay safe.

[Either the point flew over his head, or it was caught in a net woven with pride-

At least he isn't holding a grudge?]

<vortexman>

[heirrant]

[Fortunately, Ataru's no stranger to pride, if only because he has so much of it himself.]

I can believe that. You're a clever little opponent when you set your mind to it.

<CCC-REDHORSE>

[soft_focus]

Thank you.

I've been practicing!

[...The hiding or the other things.. ..??]