Unfliltered

[nicotinized]

[Toshi's mental voice sounds a little anxious - he's trying to hide it, but he has no idea when he is, just that finally there are other people around and some of them look familiar]

Hey, what did I miss? Is Souji still here?

[there's a pause, and then he sounds a little calmer, and a little embarrassed]

I got stuck in some weird patch of liminal space where time was all fucked up - watch didn't work right or anything.

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[hakodate]

[It's somewhere off the beaten path enough that it's clear he's probably intentionally avoiding interruptions.

Most interruptions, anyway.]

How're you holding up?

[neverfeltthatway]

[That's about what Armin would have expected anyway, even if he hadn't had his psychic skills to find him.]

...I'm doing all right. I was pretty lost last jaunt, but I wasn't hurt or anything.

[He knows better than to ask Hijikata the same - making the man lie to him about it wouldn't help anyone.]

[hakodate]

Sometimes "lost" is a good day, for us.

[Sometimes, of course, it very much isn't.

He's hoping that for Souji, it's more of the former.]