⠀ (⠀ he knows he shouldn't be here, B.A.T. hates him.⠀ and only mother void knows what'll happen if leo finds him here.
but it Is his birthday, maybe he'd spare him?——⠀ no, no.⠀ he's no idiot.⠀ as awesome as that'd be.
But why? Why did he- I don’t understand.
(what reason does parrot have to lie to him?)
Why here? Out of anywhere. He’s not…going to be able to come back. Is he?
(ro stills for a moment, then his smile falters with it. spoke is— dead? that can’t be true. he always found twisted ways to get out of any given situation. always managed to go out on his own terms, burning up like a bright and disastrously beautiful star.
⠀ ⠀ ⠀( he doesn't say that he did. instead, he frowns, hand falling back down to his side. )
⠀ ⠀ ⠀there's really no easy or simple way to put it. he blew up the entirety of capital city, and he ... went down with it. i'm sorry. i couldn't save him.
ro supposes this isn’t any different from that—he just doesn’t want to accept that it’s true. dying somewhere like here where he may as well never see spoke again. how reckless can he get?)
Is he really—?
(with nothing else to add, he tucks his communicator away and pulls out some fireworks instead. better to get moving before anxiety threatens to gnaw deep inside him, to turn him inside out.
spoke had been sending him ominous messages, apologizing for no apparent reason.
⠀ ⠀ ⠀[ You whisper to roshambogames: alright ]
⠀ ⠀ ⠀( he sighs. setting down an enderchest to look through it and gather what he needs before he decides it's fine and sits down next to it to wait. )
ro had wished him good luck. he should’ve tried harder to look for him.
picking up the pace to drown out what stirs in his thoughts, ro eventually makes it to the given coordinates.)
(getting parrot’s messages stuns him out of his stupor, grabbing at his communicator and skimming over the message.
right. where parrot had asked him to meet. if it had something to do with spoke…to be honest, he was worried.
⠀ ⠀ ⠀( right now would be a good time, he thinks. no more stalling he's waited long enough. )
⠀ ⠀ ⠀[ You whisper to @lifesquander: hey, you available right now? meet at coords ]
but for as long as ro had known him, spoke was always headstrong despite his chaotic nature. surely, there’s nothing too bad that could’ve happened.
deep down, he knows that if parrot is the one reaching out to him, that might not be so true.)
(ro’s gaze shifts from the string of messages sent by mapicc to another channel, exactly where his whisper to spoke lies, still unanswered. then, flicking through his comm, he finds the saved coords parrot had given him.)