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[pushtheboundaries]

"You've reached Robert Callaghan, Headmaster to the Heropa Organization for imPort Education. Please leave a message with your name, your phone number, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. As a reminder, my office hours are..."

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[pushtheboundaries]

Just keep it in mind, and make sure you take steps if you start to feel off again. For now...take care of yourself, all right? You've hard a rough month.

[both of them have, but Robert's always found it easier to focus on helping others than himself in this regard.]

[microbrobotics]

[ Ah. That's what he meant, then. Hiro's mind had gone straight to school, entirely skipping past the events of these past few weeks. In this case, normal would be just fine. Suddenly he just feels incredibly tired. He just wants to be home, in bed, maybe with one of his aunt's baked goods ... ]

Yeah. No more trouble for anyone else.

[ He's seen enough pain on his family's faces to last him a lifetime. ]

[pushtheboundaries]

No trouble for yourself, either.

[he meant a lot of things - this was just the strongest connection to it.]

Will you be able to get home all right?

[microbrobotics]

[ He shrugs a little. That self-destructive tendency is the last voice to go quiet, since none of that was Crane's influence. Just himself, reacting poorly to a spectacularly shitty set of circumstances. ]

I'll be okay. It's not far to walk.

[pushtheboundaries]

[lucky for Callaghan, his own is quiet as of late. but...he nods.]

All right. You'd better get going, then, before they start to worry about things going wrong here. [he smiles...no, this one isn't humorless. it's dry, but there's...a hint of warmth?] It might take a while for them to start to trust us with one another, but I hope you know that I have no interest in hurting you, either.

[quite the opposite.]

[microbrobotics]

[ And that wa the other reason why he wanted to walk. He didn't exactly tell his family he was coming to see Callaghan, just that he was going out to the barn. They would want to have him chaperoned for this meeting, and while he understands where they're coming from ... This was something he had to do alone.

So he nods a little, awkwardly. ]

Then - then I guess we're on the same page.

[ Not even. He won't use that word again. ]