PRIVATE CHANNEL: ARCHIMICARUS

[tigermillionaire]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, ARCHIMICARUS. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 018.07.123.44 *** ARCHIMICARUS has joined 018.07.123.44 <ARCHIMICARUS> hi this is STEVEN UNIVERSE'S channel <ARCHIMICARUS> if you dont kno where i am i probibly went to the forest.... <ARCHIMICARUS> i'll come back soon!!!

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<OCTAVE>; May 20

[proser]

Steven?
Steven, send me a message if you get this. I don't know how else to find you.
We're in Bavan if you need a place to go.

<OCTAVE>; May 21

[proser]

I hope you're somewhere safe.
Please be careful.

<ARCHIMICARUS>; May 24

[tigermillionaire]

hi wirt
im back in bavan now

[Never mind, you know, how or why or at what cost.]

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

Steven?
Where were you?
Are you okay?

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

[He's pretty slow responding to that. He's not really happy to be back, exactly, and it's hard to explain that without making things worse for everybody.]

its kind of a long story....
did any body get you?
did you get away

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

I'm fine.
What do you mean, a long story? What happened?

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

i dunno


some of the guys got me for a wile
like a few days i guess

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

Where are you?
Are you home?
Are you hurt?

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

kind of.....
amethyst drov me back too bavan
they cut off my vines i guess
and stuff

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

[It's a couple minutes before the next message comes through.]

Where are you?
We're still in Bavan. It won't take me long to get there.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

im back at elsas apartment

you can come over if you want

[He's apprehensive about this. It's like what happened with the homeworld gems all over again, except somehow worse. He hadn't wanted to tell Connie, and he doesn't want to have to tell anybody else either. Except he's already learned once that trying not to doesn't work.

Especially when Wirt doesn't even have the opportunity to stay out of this, even if he wanted to. They're all in danger, together, and there's no avoiding that.

He hesitantly gives Wirt the address, his gut already turning. He hasn't even seen Wirt in person since they both got their changes. It shouldn't be a big deal but somehow it is.]

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

Steven, are you here?
If you don't want to talk to me right now, I understand.
But I feel like I owe you an apology.
And probably an explanation.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

[There's some delay because he's been sleeping a lot, but no real hesitation once he actually sees the message.]

wirt!!!
im here
i didnt kno if you wre going too talk to me again :(

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

I'm sorry.
It wasn't you. It was my own problem.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

oh....
will you tell me what hapened?
i still dont rly understand

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

[There's a long pause before the next message -- he knows he needs to be honest, but it's not something where the words come easy.]

Seeing you like that brought up some bad memories.
It wasn't something I'd really dealt with yet, or spoken to anyone about.
You got caught in the middle of that.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

you mean me having vine hands?
i dont anymor
if that matters....

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

It was more the escalation, I think.
It's complicated.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

will you tell me?

you dont have to
i dont want to scare you again
i didnt kno what was wrong and it made me rly sad
becuz i like you a lot even if you say i sholdnt

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

[There's another long pause.]

You remind me a lot of my brother.
Before I was brought here, we were both lost somewhere else. Together.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

do you mean the forest you were talking about befor?

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

Yeah.
I didn't handle things very well. I made a lot of mistakes. Eventually it got us separated.
When I finally found Greg again, he was very weak and sick.
The trees were growing around him. He was becoming part of the forest.
We cut him free, but on our way home, we got separated again.
I came here, and Greg...
I don't know where Greg is.
Was.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

oh...they were magic trees.....
im rly sorry wirt :(
i didnt kno it had been like that


are you sure its as bad as you think??
if you dont kno...he could still be there somewhere
for when you go back

<OCTAVE>

[proser]

[It's a few minutes before he responds -- he keeps typing, deleting, and typing something new. The answer he finally settles on is short and to the point.]

Yes. I'm sure.

<ARCHIMICARUS>

[tigermillionaire]

im so sorry wirt

i woldnt have talked about it like i did i didnt kno

but im rly here for you no mater what hapened ok
it doesnt change that