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[averytinyparticle]

This is Quark! Please leave me a message and I'll read it as soon as I can!

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I dunno that's a pretty high demand...

[averytinyparticle]

[Yeah...he's not really used to it. Quark just wonders if it'll get easier if he keeps telling himself that it is.]

but you dont even know me
weve barely spoken
why would you want to?

so cruel

[advanced]

[Even he knows that explaining this is out of duty to someone else isn't the right thing to say, so a lie it is.]

We're both stuck here, aren't we? Isn't that enough?

[averytinyparticle]

[Is it enough? Quark's pretty sure he thinks so, but sometimes he just stops being able to tell why anyone should bother. Things are getting so muddled up inside his head.]

i guess it is
im sorry
i just dont know how i can be fixed

[advanced]

From grief? Just with time. Everyone dies and we're built to be able to cope with it.

[That's probably not comforting, but it's true.]

[averytinyparticle]

[Yeah...]

you arent great at this
so it never gets easier but we just learn to deal with it even though its awful?

[Doesn't really encourage him much.]

i just havent been seeing the point lately
why try to go home
why fight any of this
everywhere just leads to death and everything hurts

[advanced]

[This is already much heavier than he feels capable of dealing with, because these are questions that he struggles with too.]

I can't tell you the point, I'm sorry. But I think that there's never a situation so terrible that there isn't a way out.

[He's the living embodiment of that.]

[averytinyparticle]

[On his end of the screen, Quark takes a deep breath.]

im sure your right mister
i think this place has just been getting into my head lately
i want to look forward to having a long life ahead of me no matter what that involves

[advanced]

That's a good thing to want.

Try to keep hold of that in this place, it's only a small bit of what your life will be.

[averytinyparticle]

[He sure hopes that's true, Mister.]

some days are easier than others but ill do my best
thanks for messaging me by the way
and sorry i gave you trouble about it
im just not really myself lately i guess

[A pause.]

your pretty cool

[advanced]

[That takes him aback, and he doesn't really know what to say to that. It feels like it wouldn't do much good to point out that he's only here as a favour to someone else, so he ends up just... awkwardly ignoring it.]

If you need someone to talk to, you can message me.

[And then, all of a sudden, he's hanging up.]