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[psychopath]

You've reached Jack Vessalius- my apologies, I cannot answer your call at the moment. I may be asleep, taking a shower, incapacitated, all sorts of things..... Erm, but yes! Please leave me a message after the chirp.

[budgie kissing sound!]

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[voice] aaaafter meeting rufus--!

[fraternize]

[you're killing him with that voicemail stop-- but, right, business as usual:]

If Gilbert has Raven... and Leo has Jabberwock, I always wondered who had Dodo, Gryphon, and Owl. [a veeery brief pause, before,] Now I know who has Dodo...

[so who has the other two is what hangs unsaid in the air. he's getting a little bit tired of these surprises, gomen for your life, jack, oswald is definitely expecting jack to know. he's also expecting jack to tell him, his silence heavy and telling.]

[voice] :[ who is this who are you

[psychopath]

[jack calls him back probably before oswald swipes out of the messaging system.]

Huh? [ohhh shit. jack curses, not very charitably.] Don't tell me. That old gossipy lunatic is here.

[voice] is it a bird is it a plane

[fraternize]

[ah, how hard he tries to bite back things for jack (namely: language). but, that's not the important thing here.]

If you mean Duke Barma, certainly. He, as well as another from our world, has arrived.

[he doesn't tell jack who the other person is right away though.]

[voice] stop fraternizing with the enemy superwald

[psychopath]

You pick a Barma to bring here and you pick the most obnoxious one out of them- [which is actually a compliment because jack considers rufus dangerous and a very good target for murderous rabbits] Why couldn't you just pick Arthur? Why?

[and he's whining again.] Who's the other one? I am not going out there, I don't like people.

[voice] i can't be taaaamed

[fraternize]

[because that would have been toooo easy, jack.] ...what's done is done. You don't like Rufus Barma?

[exasperation, this.]

...the other one is Alice. [dun dun duuun.]

[voice]

[psychopath]

He figured me out.

[jack says, tightly, annoyance (and probably a little discomfort) colouring his voice. but when oswald tells him the second name, though, jack falls silent - the room seems chillier, the bed where he's been lolling about seems colder, and he rattles a breath.]

You have spoken to her?

[voice]

[fraternize]

[oswald has nothing to say to that other than harsh, distasteful things, so he won't say anything about it. instead, he goes with the flow of silence, looking towards the observatory where he knows alice has headed near.

ah, well...]

...not yet, but I was planning to. [and unless he's given a good reason not to, he doesn't plan on changing his mind.]

[voice]

[psychopath]

[like jack has any good reason to stop oswald from seeing his niece, and jack's mouth twists in frustration. perhaps he would be on better terms with this alice rather than the one he had known back in somarium.]

And Rufus? Did he try to talk your face off or something?

[voice]

[fraternize]

[did he try to talk his face off— what does it look like? (nothing because he's on voice, not video—) there's a sigh, oswald wound up by using dodo earlier.]

...we fed Dodo cookies. [is he trying to tell a joke, is he telling the truth, we just don't know!]

[voice]

[psychopath]

[thankfully jack knows oswald well enough that he actually does feed dodo and the rest of the nest cookies; there may have been a time when pastries were involved as well. oswald you spoil them y'know.]

Next thing I know you two will be knitting scarves for the birds. [jack sighs.] Do you like him?

[voice] HEH

[fraternize]

[so many goddamn crumpets there's gonna be a crumpocalypse cookies, jack. so many.]

They've feathers, I'm sure they'll be fine... [...? but,] But, I wouldn't go that far... We've just met.

[voice] OH MY GOD I COME BACK TO THIS????

[psychopath]

You're thinking about it, I know you are, Oswald can you even knit? If you make Dodo one you have to make me one too.

[he's dangerously close to whining ok.] I don't like him. [he sounds put out. like a five-year-old.]

[voice] you were gone too long i had to do something to amuse myself--

[fraternize]

[that is a good question, and he would grace it with a dignified response, but his attention's elsewhere. like, in jack's tone. he would ask why not, but he already understands; if rufus comes from the same time that jack does, of course there's a reason that jack - who pretends to like everyone - would tell him immediately that he doesn't like someone.

or, well, jack is being strikingly honest with him. hm.]

...I see. [he says, simple as he shakes his head.] I won't bring him around you, then.

[voice] sobs grossly into hands runs into arms

[psychopath]

I don't know when he's from, but if he's from around the same time as I am- the only thing keeping me from, well, er, getting rid [he coughs a little, like oswald needed any more reminders of his murderous tendencies], getting him out of my hair, is you.

[he hums curiously.] Can I tease him though?