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[whatisay]

This is Jason Compson. If you're calling for business, press one and you'll go through to my work phone. If this is something else, leave a message and I'll get to it eventually. If this is my mother, I'm going through a tunnel.

TEXT / VOICEMAIL / VIDEOMAIL

Comments

Re: text

[cigne]

jason sweet-son, that's your new name in my phone

if you don't want me to ride your small horse, just say so

Re: text

[whatisay]

now you're just making fun of me

that was maybe to us getting a day off, not to you riding the horse.

Re: text

[cigne]

maybe

then what, you want me to come over one night when we finally get them all in bed for the night? because jack's nightly bath takes AGES, he always argues like it's a choice

plus can dwarfy horses even see at night

Re: text

[whatisay]

[Normally he'd chafe, but somehow Swann can get away with it.]

you can't come at night. my mother

idk we put them in stables

Re: text

[cigne]

what, is your mom going to beat me up? i mean probably she could if she tried because most people could, but you're still an adult you can do what you want

is it nice for the horse there? marcel has a tent that he sleeps in, i made sure it was good

Re: text

[whatisay]

you don't understand. my mother can raise hell if I step out of line

I don't know. I pay a chunk of my paycheck to have servants do that.

Re: text

[cigne]

what is "stepping out line" exactly?

i hope it's nice.

Re: text

[whatisay]

is that your business?

Re: text

[cigne]

i'm sorry. i just don't understand.

Re: text

[whatisay]

the way our family conducts itself isn't any of your business. for what it's worth I'm pretty sure if my mother thought I was bringing a loose woman home to the house she lives in, that my family has always lived in, that would be over the line

Re: text

[cigne]

[It's hours and hours before Swann texts back anything at all.]

okay. i'm sorry. bye.

[whatisay]

[days later]

there's no good coffee in the tribute center

[cigne]

[He doesn't get an answer, but about forty-five minutes later, an Avox shows up unbidden with a large gourmet coffee from a shop.]

[whatisay]

[He drinks it, but it's unsatisfying. Also he was lying about the coffee, it's fine at the Tribute Center.]

obliged.

haven't seen you around

[cigne]

[It still takes her a while to respond.]

i've been busy

[whatisay]

can't be more than usual

[cigne]

[The "responding" bubble sticks up for a very long time as Swann decides whether to actually send what she's typed. It finally goes through, and it's shockingly forward for someone who usually hides and buries everything, but it's been a long time since she's been so hurt.]

must be all the sleeping around then. me being so loose and all.

[whatisay]

[By contrast, his 'responding' barely has time to show up before he's sent it.]

i never said that

[cigne]

[She just responds with a screenshot of his own words from before.]

[whatisay]

I said that's what my mother would think

[cigne]

ok

[whatisay]

if you're mad at me it's over a misunderstanding

[cigne]

you specifically referred to me as a "loose woman", jason. why would your mother think that about me unless YOU think that? she's known me since i was a child. she must think the things YOU tell her.

[whatisay]

I don't tell her anything about you. Or anything about work. That is the assumption she would make if I brought any woman home at night. Or a man for that matter.

[cigne]

i guess it would be too hard to explain that you have a friend and she's not a whore