one >>> we can't get higher than we get on the long way down (private audio @wiccan)

[expeditiousness]

un: SPEED

[billy shouldn't even need to see the username from this message to know who the sender is - tommy's voice is easy to recognize, though the anxious tightness of his tone is probably a little less familiar:]

Billy ... please, dude, ya gotta pick up. Pick up, I need to know where you are, I need to know what happened to you ...

[the next sound is a loud, frustrated sigh. not knowing where billy is and not having his speed to rely on in searching for his twin makes for one extremely unhappy tommy.]

Dammit ... look, Billy, just call me when you get this, OK? Like, the second you get this.

[he won't say it out loud, but the message should be fairly clear: he's worried about billy.]

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[demiurgency]

Yeah, I bet.

[Still definitely sounding worried, here.]

Just...be careful, okay? I don't wanna get back and--

[He stops. He doesn't want to get back to find Tommy gone. Or hurt. Or worse.]

Just be careful. Please.

[expeditiousness]

I will. I promise.

[despite the image he projects, tommy isn't dense, and he's aware of just how much he relies on his super speed, strength, and durability to protect him in a fight. he doesn't have those tools at his disposal here. he's powerless, and he hates it.]

You too, OK?

[demiurgency]

I promise. Be home before you know it.

[Now he has to. It's a promise to his twin, and he can't break that.]