[Nevermind all of this is cancelled he's going to climb out the fucking window. The pressure of it all forces him to drop the spiraling thoughts he was trying to wrangle in his head, his fallback on emotional reactions betraying him by latching onto the easier feelings first. For a second, it's just like old times, and he rolls his eyes without the malice simmering underneath.]

Uh, he tried to kill me, so really cute actually. Actually kind of your fault. He works for uh, for death, y'know, capital D Death? He was in Lucas' lab when we were goin' for the stone because he's the necromancy cops. So.

[Which Taako doesn't ascribe a lot of meaning to, because that wasn't really about him. When he thinks about their real first meeting, he thinks about their return from Refuge in the spring, turning on the light to the couch and seeing him, the conversation that strayed off topic and lead to date one, then two, then three.

But Taako hasn't even said that tier of sappy shit or memory to even Lup, so he's certainly not going into those details now or maybe ever.]

Then he found out we had all died before so he was pretty pissed. Technically I guess I vored him a little, he probably doesn't love that part.