[Waspfire hand-delivers the letter herself. Well, in a manner of speaking. She kind of just telekinetically chucks the letter into the mailbox as she goes past, and she certainly doesn't stick around to see if there's a reply.]
()k s()
That g()t way ()ut ()f hand way quick because I'm a little t()() pr()ne t() read things int() shit and I was already feeling kind ()f jumpy and I'm s()rry ab()ut that
It's m()stly just that I really d()n't want s()me ()f the aliens ar()und here getting the impressi()n that the new name is ()pen t() debate ()r neg()tiati()n, ()k? Bertie's a quadrant ()f a quadrant t() me and usually I get al()ng with him ()k but getting him t() take things seri()usly is like surgically extracting dental pr()trusi()ns s()metimes
I was ready t() answer questi()ns fr()m n()n-tr()lls but I didn't expect t() get ()ther Alternians chiming in because I kind ()f expected the rest ()f y()u w()uld understand what was happening and I'm n()t always terribly g()()d at reading y()u, pers()nally
[It takes her a while to sort out her feelings on the matter, especially after checking her mailbox and finding the letter inside. For a few hours, she's not sure what to do with it. Finally, she manages to pen something back:]
1 4M SORRY TOO 1 W4S NOT TRY1NG TO UND3RM1N3 YOUR TR4NS1T1ON 1 D1D NOT 3V3N T4K3 B3RT13S W1LLFUL 1GNOR4NC3 1NTO CONS1D3R4T1ON OR 4NYON3 3LS3S FOR TH4T M4TT3R
1T H4S B33N 4 LONG T1M3 S1NC3 1 H4V3 H4D 4NYTH1NG TO DO W1TH 4LT3RN14 1F 1 3V3R D1
[She scribbles that part out before she even finishes and keeps going.]
1T 1S W31RD TO H4V3 TO R3M3MB3R HOW TH1S STUFF WORKS 4FT3R SO LONG 1 D1D NOT H4V3 4 LUSUS GROW1NG UP 4ND 1 H4V3 N3V3R KNOWN 4NYON3 WHO CL41M3D 4 T1TL3 B3FOR3 1 THOUGHT TH4T TH3 L3V3L OF FORM4L1TY M1GHT V4RY D3P3ND1NG ON TH3 TROLL 1 D1D NOT KNOW YOU W3LL 3NOUGH TO KNOW HOW STR1CT YOU W4NT3D TO B3 W1TH TH1S
1 DONT 1NT3ND TO T4K3 4 T1TL3 FOR MYS3LF 1 DO NOT C4R3 3NOUGH TO 4DH3R3 TO TH4T TR4D1T1ON BUT TH4T DO3S NOT M4K3 M3 4 W1GGL3R S1MPLY B3C4US3 1 DONT H4V3 ON3 1F YOU DO NOT 1NS1NU4T3 4S MUCH 4G41N TH3N PSYM4GUS W4SPF1R3 W1LL H4V3 NO PROBL3MS FROM M3
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timeasmymeasure
Morning of November the Sixteenth
Date: 2014-11-17 02:34 am (UTC)()k s()
That g()t way ()ut ()f hand way quick because I'm a little t()() pr()ne t() read things int() shit and I was already feeling kind ()f jumpy and I'm s()rry ab()ut that
It's m()stly just that I really d()n't want s()me ()f the aliens ar()und here getting the impressi()n that the new name is ()pen t() debate ()r neg()tiati()n, ()k? Bertie's a quadrant ()f a quadrant t() me and usually I get al()ng with him ()k but getting him t() take things seri()usly is like surgically extracting dental pr()trusi()ns s()metimes
I was ready t() answer questi()ns fr()m n()n-tr()lls but I didn't expect t() get ()ther Alternians chiming in because I kind ()f expected the rest ()f y()u w()uld understand what was happening and I'm n()t always terribly g()()d at reading y()u, pers()nally
S()rry
-Psymagus Waspfire
Sometime later that afternoon
Date: 2014-11-17 03:23 am (UTC)1 4M SORRY TOO
1 W4S NOT TRY1NG TO UND3RM1N3 YOUR TR4NS1T1ON
1 D1D NOT 3V3N T4K3 B3RT13S W1LLFUL 1GNOR4NC3 1NTO CONS1D3R4T1ON
OR 4NYON3 3LS3S FOR TH4T M4TT3R
1T H4S B33N 4 LONG T1M3 S1NC3 1 H4V3 H4D 4NYTH1NG TO DO W1TH 4LT3RN14
1F 1 3V3R D1[She scribbles that part out before she even finishes and keeps going.]
1T 1S W31RD TO H4V3 TO R3M3MB3R HOW TH1S STUFF WORKS 4FT3R SO LONG
1 D1D NOT H4V3 4 LUSUS GROW1NG UP 4ND 1 H4V3 N3V3R KNOWN 4NYON3 WHO CL41M3D 4 T1TL3 B3FOR3
1 THOUGHT TH4T TH3 L3V3L OF FORM4L1TY M1GHT V4RY D3P3ND1NG ON TH3 TROLL
1 D1D NOT KNOW YOU W3LL 3NOUGH TO KNOW HOW STR1CT YOU W4NT3D TO B3 W1TH TH1S
1 DONT 1NT3ND TO T4K3 4 T1TL3 FOR MYS3LF
1 DO NOT C4R3 3NOUGH TO 4DH3R3 TO TH4T TR4D1T1ON
BUT TH4T DO3S NOT M4K3 M3 4 W1GGL3R S1MPLY B3C4US3 1 DONT H4V3 ON3
1F YOU DO NOT 1NS1NU4T3 4S MUCH 4G41N
TH3N PSYM4GUS W4SPF1R3 W1LL H4V3 NO PROBL3MS FROM M3
-T3R3Z1 PYROP3