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[diosauria]

[this is the sound of someone fumbling with buttons and not realizing the recording's started]

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voicemail ; 1/3?!

[rettangolo]

[ there's a bit of fumbling on gyro's end to make sure that this is recording, before he leaves his message: ]

You alive?

I'm only asking because it'd be a pain in the ass if you got turned into something weird like everyone else, if you've turned into a slime monster or something, don't bother listening to the rest of this.

[rettangolo]

First of all— fuck you. I'm not gonna get into this because you know what I'm talking about. Actually, listen to this part even if you are a slime monster.

I'll say it again: fuck you.

OK DONE...

[rettangolo]

Secondly— but not more importantly, because remember, fuck you— information.

Come to the open area near the well. If you don't show up, I'm gonna assume that you're running away with your tail tucked between your legs.

[ das right brando suck it

click! ]

video;

[weaselshot]

[ Dante would be a vine superstar if vines existed, so have a slow pan of this drawing with Dante doing "do doot do doot" suspenseful music in the background - which is clearly done on the wall of one of the tunnels they've been using to get to Haven North. ]

[diosauria]

[and here's a video back, of Diego's beautiful, unamused face]

Don't send me useless videos.

[he was in the middle of stalking some quality threads, probably. does he even get that it's a dino peen????]

[weaselshot]

Hey, it's more useful than you posing for invisible cameras all the time, pretty boy.

[diosauria]

I don't know what you're talking about. [he says, draped over the couch with his hair splayed out across the armrest, staring slightly above the camera on the phone.] That's a terrible drawing, you know.

[weaselshot]

Oh, is Mister Brando an art critic now? Why don't you enlighten me on why it's so terrible?

[diosauria]

Are you joking? It looks like something an infant would do.

[voice]

[sullenstallion]

Hey, Diego. Did you hear? It sounds like that one guy died.

[diosauria]

Hm?

Oh. You mean 'Tony Chu,' right? So he did. [he definitely... sounds pretty amused. like he knows something he's not telling. rude.]

[sullenstallion]

Yeah, him, and—

[Wait a second.]

You already heard, huh? From that guy on the phone?

[diosauria]

Not exactly.

How much do you know about why the rain started?

[sullenstallion]

Nothing at all, unless you're about to change that.

[diosauria]

[you know him so well, Dylas.]

It was 'Dr. Kite.' Even though he died after the business with the Uzumaki, [and even though he didn't show up when Diego used his ability, even though he should have... not that he's still bitter] it seems he was still scurrying around long enough to make a useless attempt at revenge.

[sullenstallion]

Wait. This entire time, Tony was actually that Kite asshole?!

[That explains a lot of things. Like why Tony killed Diego that one time and...maybe why the whirlpools happened.]

[diosauria]

...Since the rain started. [probably. something like that, anyway.] Maybe earlier than that. It might've been since he ate Kite. [which happened when Dylas was disappeared, but anyway.] The point is, they're both dead and gone now.

[voicemail]

[thebeastwithout]

Yo, Diego!

[The voice may be familiar as that one green dinosaur transforming kid he had run into a week or two ago.]

This is Beast Boy. We said we'd follow up if we ever found out anything, and... we did! ...Important things. Call me back or come find me sometime - I live in the first housing block, by the well.

[diosauria]

[Once he finally gets to the voice message-- he predates the telephone, cut him some slack-- he's vaguely surprised that he's getting followup at all. He chooses in-person conversations over phone ones, so it's not too long afterwards that he's rapping the back of his fist on Beast Boy's door.]

Beast Boy, right? That was unexpected.

[thebeastwithout]

What? Why?

[Beast Boy seems to have been pacing around inside of his common room for no particular reason because the door pops open about two seconds after Diego knocks.]

You think we were just gonna stick with 'oh well who knows' as an answer?

[Actually that would have been the answer he'd have gone with if Nadia hadn't made the breakthrough, but. Hypocrisy aside...]

Sit down anywhere. You want some canned beans?

[...]

[diosauria]

Something like that. I'll never doubt you again. I promise.

[He immediately sits down in a corner of the couch like he's posing for a photoshoot; he seems to think this is a perfectly natural way to sit. It's a universe thing.]

Sure. [info AND free food? score.]

[thebeastwithout]

...Oh. 'K, one sec.

[That had been partially a joke since canned beans weren't exactly the most delectable of foodstuffs, but he'll walk into the kitchen and come out with one. He'll crack it open with a crab claw.]

...Uh. What are you doing?

[re: weird pose]

Is that cushion too lumpy? I always thought it kinda was.

[diosauria]

[He immediately glances down at the cushion to check what the problem could possibly be.]

...Oh, am I not supposed to sit here? [weird that he told him to sit wherever, but okay... he shifts one cushion over, adopting a much more reasonable sitting position this time.] Nice trick. [with the crab claw. he's a weird kid, but at least he has an interesting ability.]

[thebeastwithout]

No, that's...

Uh, never mind.

[.......Vaguely conscious that Diego may or may not be trying to... seduce him? now, Beast Boy will just leave the beans on the table.]

Thanks. ...Anyway, so. Info.

[Door's closed, no one else is in the house.]

Basically, we were right to be suspicious. Jonas and Caroline were fakes; I found this out about ten minutes after we left you - Jason actually called me directly.

voice | private.

[diobolical]

Diego.

It's about time we spoke.

[ not that it's been that long since they last saw each other — but as dio's sure his counterpart will recall, that didn't involve a great deal of talking on either of their parts. things went down oddly at that time, and with the circumstances surrounding it...

while diego's face and presence in haven is still a problem, knowing that the feeling is mutual confers him some advantage. diego is just a nuisance for him, but to diego, he's a genuine threat. ]

The library is still standing, even if the books have broken down. Meet with me there tonight.