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[prayercycles]

[ The default answering machine message plays. ]

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[burlyboy]

There's nothing I need to know, kid. That was my whole point. I'm, uh... I'm not in the business of making people tell me shit they don't want other people to know, y'know? Your business is your business.

[ He wants people to come to him naturally. Hell, that's how he, Taako and Merle have always worked, and all for the better. He doesn't want to talk about his shit, they don't want to talk about theirs. He's hoping they'll open up to him one day, but that doesn't need to happen anytime soon.

He's not lying when he says he just wants to look forward. It's now that matters. Not then. ]

Just figured there must be something even you'd wanna talk about. Doesn't matter what.

[prayercycles]

[ Fortunato doesn't want to talk, really. It's how he functions. It was so much easier to not speak- to not worry about the weight of his words- if he wasn't doing it. Or at least wasn't doing it out loud.

He twists his fingers together. It's hard to explain this without explaining everything, or to make Magnus feel like he's done something wrong. ]

...There is not anything I want to say. [ Might as well be blunt, although saying it out loud makes him kind of embarrassed. ] It- it is not you.

[burlyboy]

[ Well, shit. That's a lot more worrying than anything else Fortunato could have said. Was his life really that bad? Magnus has had his suspicions, of course - everyone here's had kind of crappy lives, one way or another - but to have absolutely nothing to share...

Oofa doofa. ]

Um.

[ Fortunato can say it's not him all he likes, but not wanting to share one thing - yeah, it's kind of him too, isn't it. ]

Allllllllrighty then. That's, uh. That, then.

[prayercycles]

[ Fortunato reads that as a bit of disappointment, which he doesn’t like to think he inspired in Magnus. His brow furrows and he looks away for a second, finding a way to smooth it over. He supposes Magnus might want this to be over... ]

...Thank you, again. It is a very nice gift. [ He means that. ]

I- I hope it did not take very much time.