driftfleet | Tenth Gate [Video]

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Tenth Gate [Video]

Who: Jennifer Keller and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: N/A
When: Now

A year, huh... [Jennifer looks distant and sounds a little sad.] How... [She hesitates.] If you've been here for a while, what kinds of things do you do to cope when you're really, really missing home? Because I've been thinking about my friends back home a lot lately, and having been the only person from my world here this entire time... [She trails off, and decides to just wait for responses.]

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[Well shucks, make a girl blush, why don't you?]

And it happening slowly is why I keep putting off trying new things and meeting new people. It's this awful feedback loop- I feel self-conscious about it, so I think about just- just going out to the bar or something, talking to someone, then start fretting over wondering if I'm interesting enough and so on... it's a vicious cycle.

Yeah. It sucks. [He sure knows that feeling. Salvatore knows it far better than Alesci ever did, but he knows.]

Hey, I don't know how much this'll help, but if you ever need to get out of it, send me a text and I'll break it up.

It does.

And... I'll do that. Thank you. I feel like a loser sometimes for not having figured out how to be a social creature yet, so that would be great.

Really? [that gets a laugh out of him] Jennifer, you're like the furthest thing from a loser. No matter how fast or slow you go, you're gonna be great.