Edge, Friday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

Distress calls from Rookies, left, right, and center. That was what Reno came home to, after over a week without phone reception out in the wastes. And now it was the countdown, before one Rookie would get here, with Ifrit only knew what kind of trauma fresh in her head.

Pick up the phone. Dial numbers. He had well over an hour, between the time Ino's portal would arrive to pick her up, and the time it would actually make it into Edge, after all.

"The boss sends me on one mission in the middle of nowhere, Mako, an' the whole universe goes to Hell without me, zoto."

[NFB for distance, as usual. Open for anyone who needs a Reno call or who wants to give one, all calls will sit chronologically before a certain Ninja visitor, yo.]

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[withoutverona]

"One becomes a hero," Romeo repeated. "Do the other two die, or do they just wander of the margins of the page, never to be seen again?"

[raspberryturk]

"Hard to say," Reno noted. "The whole thing ain't there. People write their own endings to it, sure, but without the original, it all gets muddled up an' stops makin' sense."

A pause.

"I bet you could write the end to it. You'd make it all... not shitty."

[withoutverona]

"I would try to," Romeo said, warming to the subject. "I like happy endings. Not shitty ones where everyone dies and you feel like crap even if you know they had it coming."

"... I've been writing a lot, just stuff to fill the time."

[raspberryturk]

"Oh, yeah?" Reno mulled on that for a moment. "Anything good enough to get published?"

It was weird, the places that Reno's brain went when he was sober. Productive moneymaking suggestions? What?

[withoutverona]

"I've not tried," Romeo said slowly. "You think I should?"

[raspberryturk]

"You write enough, man," Reno pointed out. "You probably got volumes of books you could put out there. Hell, I'd read it."

He wouldn't understand it. But he'd read it.

"Couldn't hurt to try, right?"

[withoutverona]

"I call to complain about karaoke and I end with a career goal," Romeo noted. "You're a complicated man, Reno. Thank you."

This was why Reno was his best friend, really.

[raspberryturk]

Reno laughed. Grinned. Damn, he'd needed this call.

"I wanna say I try, man, but it's all natural Reno. What else can I say?"