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[Luceti is just bent on torturing him. If he ever got any major gain, he'd just end up getting pulled back down to earth.

HAHAHA SEE WHAT I DID THERE--

Anyway.

He's having just a bit of bad luck today, seeing as how...well, every time he tries to walk through a doorway, he ends up in a trashcan. It'd happened several times already, and as of yet he hadn't exactly been caught by anyone.

But it was getting really annoying. Whatever Luceti was doing now needed to knock it off.

However, as he tries to enter his own apartment again...

He finds himself in another trash can. Where is he this time? Outside your house? Inside your house? In the trash can underneath the sink...?

Either way, I hope the trash can's not too dirty! Don't freak out too much, either. He won't bite.

Wait, yes he will.

...Engage at your own risk?]

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[distressedude]

All right, if you're sure. [Ion's not about to insist an angry Sync stay in the house longer than necessary.]

[He just... points him towards the door. He can give that much help, right?]

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[That's probably a good idea.

Also he's going to just...march off towards the door, without another word. Because really, he doesn't want to be here.

But as soon as he goes into the doorway again--

He disappears, and reappears in the trash can.]

Damn it!

[distressedude]

[Ion jumps a bit when Sync suddenly disappears, but then whips his head around when he hears Sync curse and... sees him once more sitting in the garbage can.]

Has this been happening to you all day? [He can't even mask the sympathy in his voice. That's rough, buddy.]

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[Don't feel sympathetic to him man. That's just making things worse.]

I think the answer's obvious.

[So he's not going to answer, really.]

[distressedude]

[This is a predicament! He can't exactly keep an angry Sync in his house Dist always did have a strict no-pets-allowed rule and he's not about to let him out of his sight so long as he's still here.]

You're welcome to try leaving again, though I can't promise the result won't be the same... perhaps you could try leaving through a window?

[trashed]

[This is just the most awkward thing ever isn't it--

Ugh. He sees the point in Ion's question, but he would hate to admit he was right.

It sucks to be him.

So instead of actually saying anything, like saying that Ion could be right or that he was going to try his suggestion, he's going to start walking off in search of a window.

Because Sync? Saying that Ion could be right? Nope, he doesn't want to go down that road today.]

[distressedude]

[Well, that's cool and all bro, but Ion's not exactly a mindreader and he's not sure whether Sync is actually going to follow his advice or not. Sure, it seems that way, but...]

[Well, he'll just have to follow along behind him, then. Hope Sync doesn't mind having a baby-sitter, since that's basically what's going down right now.]

[trashed]

[YOU SHOULD BE A MINDREADER GOSH ION--

I mean. Ion's following him anyway, so he'll figure it out on his own so...he might as well.]

Tell me where the window is.

[It's not a question, either.]

[distressedude]

There's one right over there. Just behind the curtains.

[Pointing off towards the adjacent room. If there was a less awkward way of doing this, Ion would be all for it. As it stands? This is as close as they're getting.]

[He better not just break through the window...]

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[GOOD. He's not going to say thank you, but he is going to walk over to the window and start opening it so he can crawl out.

He's done with you, Ion. And he's not intending to break through it unless it's locked or something, so there's not a whole lot of a worry there. Maybe.

Because shards of glass on him would just be icing on the cake, wouldn't it?]

[distressedude]

[It should open! And then he can just hop on his way and hopefully not wind up in another garbage can.]

[Meanwhile Ion will just stare. Because if he just disappears again, Ion will have to go check all the trash cans to be sure he's not just elsewhere in the house...]

[trashed]

[NO he's not going to disappear again!

Well. He will but that's just because he's going to jump through the window. But he's not going to go somewhere else; he's just going to land on the ground outside and run off.

Bye, Ion.]