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[gobo_projection]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away. <CCC-REDHORSE>(I might note old stuff down too...)

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[gobo_projection]

Learning to be happy about the right things can be really hard, so don't worry if it took you a while okay? :0 Especially since it feels like a lot of things in the world try to make you unlearn that stuff.

[certaininequities]

Or never taught them to begin with. The more I read and learn, the more I spend time thinking about it, the more I realize that's why the Goblin became a problem at all, actually.

[there are a few self-help books on his shelves in the Arcade, now, along with some psychological studies and journals. Norman is, in fact, Doing The Work]

Thank you, Reira. For everything. Once I'm back at the house, I want to do something for you. For the house, even. Is there anything that needs fixing, or that you've wanted to update?

[gobo_projection]

It is? :0

Um! I can't really think of anything right now but I guess I can tell you later if there's something. Or if you see something you can ask?

[certaininequities]

It is. It might be easier to explain that in person, though. Maybe once I'm back at the house?

[gobo_projection]

Yeah, okay :0

Um

I guess I'll see you :0

[certaininequities]

Reira, why are you making :0 faces at me? What's wrong?

[gobo_projection]

?

Nothing?? :/

I make lots of faces...

[certaininequities]

Isn't :0 a surprised face? Or a scared one? I found this little dictionary once when Harry started texting them to me all the time and that was what it said.

[this is now in the running for The Most Dad Thing He's Ever Said]

[gobo_projection]

I guess sometimes?

I don't know if a dictionary really works for it I just go with the faces that feel right...

If it's surprised though I'd add a !

Like this :0!

It doesn't really seem scared to me though.

[certaininequities]

:0! Well I guess that makes sense. You'd know better than I do, I'm still learning them all.

I'm just glad you're okay. For a minute I thought you were nervous about seeing me around.

[gobo_projection]

[There is a distinct feeling, somehow, that she's taught Norman something he should never use. It just doesn't seem right.

Oh well!]

Yeah!

Sometimes it helps to just do what feels right though, since everyone is different.

?

Why would I be nervous about that? I was just nervous about making sure everything works okay.

<DrOsborn> aaaand wrap?

[certaininequities]

I'm just worrying too much, I think. That's all.

Thank you again, Reira. ooo
(We had that one back when people still wrote most of their letters on paper. It meant 'hugs'.)

<CCC-REDHORSE> yus that's a wrap

[gobo_projection]

Woah does it??

Okay!

ooo

[Awww.]