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"Helloooo! You've reached Jaune Arc! If I'm not answering, it means I'm probably off somewhere fighting monsters or... doing something really awesome like saving a cat, or the president's son! You know how it is, a leader's schedule can be really hectic nowadays, ha ha! Just kidding, I'm probably in school, but I'd totally do those things if I ha-- [BEEP]"



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1/HAHA WHAT WAS I THINKING

[corona]

Jaune. [ For the first time her voice hardens - stiffening in the direction of fear rather than indignation or anger. This. Is.

Not slow.

But she can't stop herself. She can't hold herself back from the edge of whatever cliff - and it's one she hadn't known was there at all! - they've found themselves teetering on. Even if she can only just barely grasp the edges of this and what it means, why does it seem they're always falling onto things?

Swallowing yields no result. Moving yields no result. Not that she isn't: Rapunzel's hands, smaller than his (and gosh, this is the first time she's really seeing their size difference and appreciating it), are trembling along with the rest of her. Her chest has gone tight and breathing has become all but impossible, has become not unlike one side-effect she'd experienced after drinking one of those terrible fucking potions... She doesn't need to see a healer to know there's something very wrong with her, to know she needs help, but the person she'd turn to for help here is - is - ]

J-Jaune, I–