[uwahhhh i called dibs makes a whole lot of emotions swell up and make her throat tight again. happy and wanted!! someone wants her around. ace wants her around. it's nice. she laughs a little and bats at his hand when he boops her.

anyway, she doesn't mind the grief/love - it's sad, and it makes her have little pangs of sympathy, but she doesn't mention it. it just gives her a sense of how important he was. she wishes she could've met him, but.]

Look, if we just get tossed out into the ocean I'm not going to let you drown, obviously. [there's like a nauseated feeling at that but it goes away fast.] ... A newspaper? Like just to see what happened?