[Text] un: justanadventurer [Locked from Jinx]

[aetherweaver]

[He was going to send this as anonymous, honest to gods, but then his omen walked over his Omni while he was getting a drink and sent this.]

So what is therapy exactly? Aside from 'talk to someone to make you feel better', I know that much.

What sort of books would one look for to find advice for doing therapy?

Is this even something I should be trying to do for someone?

[That last bit he'd been planning on taking out, but. Omens.]

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[possessum]

( It's definitely all... complicated. Even things like trying to help a person can earn someone a mark over their head, in this place. It's a nightmare world and some of the Sleepers can be just as dangerous as anything native to Trench. Nara'a is right about it being hard to find amongst all of the bad, and it makes posts like this one really stick out. )

I'm definitely down. Maybe we can find a day when there's not a winter storm going on outside
It's nice to meet you too, Nara'a

( Ah... the network post. Peter hadn't read it, or any of the replies. He'd been so out of it for... so long afterwards. And he was never able to bring himself to read Luna's distress there even when he was capable of holding an Omni device again and remembering how to move his fingers. )

Oh yeah, she's my girlfriend. I was... sent back home like mentally? In some cocoon thing.
Saw what played out back home

( What happened back home on that final night, the pieces of the puzzle he's learned more about... he doesn't know what to do with it, and even thinking about it right now makes him strange, knocks him sideways from himself with a deep ache. For a few long moments, Peter's gazing half-lidded at the wall, eyes wide and wet. His tongue moves like a living thing, gives soft sounds. It's several minutes before he's able to function like a person again, sends the next text. )

I don't know if I can talk about it yet
I don't know
how

But thank you
Really
Maybe I can try sometime

Thanks for talking to her, too. I didn't read that post but I'm sure she appreciated anything you said
I know it was all really scary for her

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[aetherweaver]

I had that happen to me as well. I had to deal with a good bit of corruption afterwards, but I don't know if my case was abnormal or not.

[He doesn't rush, just waits patiently for Peter's next text. ... He's neither disappointed nor surprised.]

Don't push yourself. I know a lot of us come from very difficult situations. You don't have to tell me anything you don't want to.

I'm sorry, I should have followed up earlier to make sure you were all right after that post, but I didn't. And I'm sorry whatever happened to you at home is difficult to talk about. (I know it's not my fault, but all the same...)

... Please let me know if you need anything, all right? Even if it's a text in the middle of the night. (I'm usually up anyway.)