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[hostage]

[The video's shaky when Jesse starts transmitting. He's at the baseball diamond and it's the middle of winter and he's shivering, dressed for a New Mexico summer in a hoodie that's barely thicker than the t-shirt he's wearing underneath it.]

I'm here.

[He's saying that to the NV, but his attention is away from the camera, directed to the road.]

Where's a goddamn taxi...

[He stops walking for a second and raises the NV so he can talk to it properly.]

I'm here. I'm okay. How long's it been? What year is it?

Comments

[hostage]

I'm gonna hurt you. You know that, right? The shit I'm in... The kind of person I am...

[reassures]

[Nill isn't sure what else to say. All of these reappearances lately make no sense to her. She stares at her NV for a minute before just setting it aside and not bothering with more.]

[the_dead_pool2]

That is pretty soft man.

[hejhej]

[She usually has something to say, something to fall back on, but she isn't sure what to say to that. It wasn't in the cards that Jesse would hurt her because he wanted to - it was in the cards because that's how her whole life usually played out.

Instead, she hugs him tighter.]