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[crushed_pearls]

Erin's voice mail message is in a weary voice: "Erin Peters. If you called in the middle of the night and I didn't answer, I'm dying. If I pick up and someone on your end isn't dying, they will be shortly. Text otherwise."

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[redlightgreenlight]

"You threatened Max?"

Clearly it didn't bother him, but still. Though Erin's right that Valdis can take care of her own boundaries.

"Ash is very respectful, if you place a boundary, he will honor it."

[crushed_pearls]

"Not about you," Erin reassures, Mysteriously. "Ask him about it sometime if you like, mention the carnival, oughta jog his memory. Honestly though...I like what I've seen of Ash, little enough that it is. He's kinda got rich boy energy but the ship will grind that down soon enough."

[redlightgreenlight]

"Rich maybe, but not spoiled."

He does have that air about him, but she was also rich. Years of building up wealth and carefully moving it to the next persona.

"And I hope the ship doesn't change him too much. I like him as he is."

She knows change is inevitable, and can be good. It has been for Max and so many others.

[crushed_pearls]

Erin leans her head over, and rests it on Valdis's shoulder. She feels...warm, inside, and it's nice.

"...Hey. I. Really have that big an influence on you? It's kinda hard to imagine. You're...I dunno...it's felt like being invited to meet someone already there. Someone really great."

[redlightgreenlight]

Valdis nuzzles Erin's hair.

"Well, when you met me most of my memories still hadn't returned. Now I have my past and some semblance of my present. The future could be anything, which is something I didn't have before."

Eventually she'll have to reconcile the Angel of Death with the Hellhound, but the time hasn't yet come for that.

[crushed_pearls]

"...I know you can tell, 'cause you're you and the way you are, but...you've helped me too, y'know." To calm down, to be a bit at peace, to feel safe when she's been scared, to remember the glorious pain of yearning...

A wistful sigh. "I know I can't stay, but...come on down to mine sometime soon when Max and Helena and Security are doin' their thing, yeah? I can tell you entirely too much about New Avalon and the game I'm workin' on for Tayrey and you can bully the hell outta me."

[redlightgreenlight]

"I will."

Valdis feels it all, and partners should help each other.

"Go easy on Ashley for me."

Wrap?

[crushed_pearls]

"I'll try to keep the horror to like five point five Lovecrafts."

Yes

[redlightgreenlight]

"Fair enough, my love."