Counselor Aiden Price

[myagents]

● Counselor Aiden Price
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[hallelujahjunction]

Project Freelancer ain't coming back. [There's probably no way for those words not to just sound harsh.] You say you don't see the point in trying to be anything but the person who just waits for Project Freelancer to come back, but you're miserable, so obviously something's got to give.

[He gives Price a sad shrug.]

[myagents]

If the Director was here, maybe...This would be different.

[He can't help but wonder how things would have been. Even if they still failed to get their agents back, they would at least have each other. The Director was just so perfect to have around, because he would be the one to do reckless and aggressive things for him, Price just had to enable them and hardly receive any backlash.]

But yes, it's all gone and it will never be the same.

[hallelujahjunction]

You're right, it won't never be the same. Time to start fresh. [Dan raises an eyebrow, as if to suggest what he thinks Price's new beginning should look like.]

Look, if you ever truly want me to go and not talk to you again, you can just tell me. But make sure it's for you, not for some misguided sense that I'm not an adult enough to know what I can handle or what risks I'm fine running.

[myagents]

[Price is filled with dread at the mere thought of starting fresh. It's too tiring and too late.]

Without Project Freelancer I am nothing.

[He swallows his pride because apparently he didn't make it clear enough. Although he's been reckless lately, he still chooses his words carefully. When he says nothing he means nothing.]

You can stay with me, but you will not like what you see.

[hallelujahjunction]

Without Project Freelancer you're still my friend. Or at least, I consider that to be the truth. [He figures Price won't. Doesn't matter. Dan's sincere.

The fact that Price isn't taking the opportunity to tell Dan to go away forever tells Dan that Price wants him to stay after all.]

I don't have to like what I see.

[myagents]

[Price isn't sure what to feel about it. On one hand he's relieved - or at least he understands he should be relieved - that being Dan's friend is an available identity, but on the other hand...It's not something he can rely on.]

Alright.

[He would like to say 'I don't know if I can bear a new beginning' but this conversation is awkward enough already.]

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan lets that lukewarm acceptance hang in the air for a moment, figuring it might be the best he gets from Price today.]

So. Since we established that I'm sorry and we're still friends, do you want to go get lunch from the mess hall?

[myagents]

[The mess hall is full of people that hate Price, but they probably will not attack him when he's with Dan. He's been keeping to himself for a month, and not because he wanted to, so simply being able to see people around him could be comforting.]

Sure. Let us go.

[Yet he still kind of hides behind Dan on the way to the mess hall, just in case they meet someone hostile in the meantime.]