sometime after day 5

[sizeofyourbaggage]

[ Sam’s never really reached out to the Nest in general like this before, but at this point - well, he’s running out of options. The work he’s done on his mental walls has paid off, and nothing escapes his thick cloud layer except his words, and the soft hint of wind and feathers that flavors his mental link. ]

( Seems like we got a bit of down time, and I’m looking to put it to good use. I’m getting better with my symbiote ability, but I need someone who’ll let me practice it with them.

Simple explanation is that it’s healing, with a side effect that means it’s gonna hurt. Most likely for me. I can get into specifics if you’re up for it. ) [ If it doesn’t bother them or they’re willing to overlook that it means Sam getting hurt, he means, but seeing as he’s communicating with the Nest in general, he’s not gonna say that.

He already knows more than who person who is bothered by it and never seems willing to let Sam use it on them. ]

( I’ll take as many as I can get, more training can’t hurt. )

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[sizeofyourbaggage]

[ It's the same conversation to Sam. Or maybe not the same, just... similar. Maybe it's more what they mean to each other than what, specifically, they are to each other. He'd been trying to ask what he means to Shiro, if he should offer to do for Shiro what he asked Shiro to do for him, it just hadn't come out right. Maybe he doesn't know how to ask, maybe he isn't ready to hear the answer.

But he's already on his way to meet Zhukov, and he doesn't have time to try to figure any of that out. So instead he just hums acknowledgment, letting a final flow of warmth cross their connection before he starts to pull back. ]

( Yeah. I will. )

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(Thank you.)

[There's a lot in those two words. A lot he's not really sure how to put into words, all things considered. But hopefully, it's felt.]

[Because these are two totally different conversations, to him. And one needs to be specific and timed appropriately. It needs to be serious and calm. Not caught up in this other situation.]