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[secondthoughts]

beep boop.

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[gluttoning]

I don't see how this is relevant unless you are insinuating foul conduct. If that's your concern, I will once again direct you to either my lawyer or the University of California Berkeley's athletics department.

The Blake residence has no statement on the matter.

[secondthoughts]

Look, I'm just telling you that those three and your brother are close. On a personal level. Maybe it doesn't mean much to you, but his wellbeing means the world to them. Have a little sympathy. I don't really care about your official statements.

Do you know anything about that computer game he plays?

[gluttoning]

The "three of them" are not the ones currently speaking to me, and you are the only contact in his immediate phone records with any confirmation of being at the game. Your own involvement being left in the dark is also not lost on me, Mr. Mehmet.

[A pause.]

The beta run sponsored by CCCorp. I'm aware. I was involved in the heavy amounts of installation for both my own property and the dormitory.

[secondthoughts]

Really? Since you clearly don't have a problem using his personal phone to contact me instead of contacting me with your own, then you can go ahead and scroll up through our chat history to see that people known as Tabibito, Tylorific, and Mithrun were also there. Those obviously aren't their real names, and I don't know what they are, so you'll have to ask your brother himself. Lucas.

And good, so you do know. That company is fishy as hell. Your brother's probably going to be out of commission for a while with lots of free time after this. Just make sure he doesn't spend too much time in the game.

[gluttoning]

I am using what means our family currently has to settle affairs so that, when my brother is awake, he does not have a hundred of you demanding answers from him that he cannot give while he should be in recovery. This also does not answer my question your role in this, nor why you in particular were with them.

How he spends his free time is not my concern, so long as he is not personally suffering for it. Given how large and influential CCCorp has become, I don't believe "fishy" is something that should be thrown around lightly.

[secondthoughts]

[ It's at this point Hector pauses to laugh at himself. He sounds like a fucking nutcase, doesn't he?

Fine. All the more reason to handle this on his own. ]

Okay. lol.

[ Anyway. To his first point, which every word makes Hector more and more irritated: ]

I don't think you need to worry about "a hundred of us." And by "us" I mean the friends he's made through the beta. I live nearby and he invited me to his game. Thought I'd go to show my support. That's all.

[gluttoning]

[A long, long pause.]

Your support is welcomed. It matches what he spoke to you about.

The beta is not the only group currently seeking answers here, Mr. Mehmet. My brother has already lost a good deal of privacy on this matter with how fast the footage is already spreading. If I let just anyone in, the amount of press that may very well come swarming in with them would affect more than just him. His brothers are already being called by complete strangers. We already have reporters on my property. If they learn you've seen him, they will treat all of you the same.

I cannot have that.

I have a family to protect. So I do not care how many of you there are, or how much you care. It could may as well be a million.

My brothers are more important than your collective feelings. Save those for when the boy can speak for himself again.

[secondthoughts]

[ Damn. If Hector had the magical power of reaching through a phone screen to strangle someone, he'd be using it now. He almost throws his phone into the woods instead, but exercises impeccable restraint, and doesn't.

His eyes just glaze over all this text... His thumbs lose the will to type. ]

Ok 👍

[gluttoning]

[oh ur one of THOSE people smh]

If he is coherent in the morning, visiting hours will be open tomorrow. If you wish to be allowed up, a full name will suffice for me to provide to security. No cameras permitted.

Until then, you will need to exercise some patience.

[secondthoughts]

I'm not the person you should be talking to, then. I'm already back in Sequoia and won't have time to visit tomorrow.

Well wishes and a speedy recovery to him, though.

[gluttoning]

Then I will pass that along.

If there are any other concerns, send them through the university and we will address them in light of his recovery. UC of Berkeley will issue a statement in regards to his injury as soon as the surgeons have cleared information for public release.

Until then. Good evening.

[Lucas will not respond any further.]