Day 6 of 21
Allie via Milo’s phone: Morning. Some screenshots of notifications you’ve had today:
Allie forwarded [ screenshot ]
Bunty’s Coffee: Black card member alert: Scan your app at any Bunty’s Coffee worldwide today and receive your fave drink free all July long!
Word!: Milo, your word of the day is ‘fortuity’. Meaning: A chance incident that is mostly beneficial.
iMessage from Jameson: Dude, you ghosting me?
How’s the movie? Just finished a 24-hour gaming stream.
I’m soooo knackered. Think I broke YouTube, though, so that’s good, ahaha.
Anyway, hope you’re staying whole!! :-) Always proud of you, friend.
If anyone’s got this, you’ve got this. Clean slate this shit. J xx
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12:56 P.M.
Milo via Allie’s phone: Hey, thanks for forwarding these, Allie!
Just got back to the apartment. A half hour ago I was dressed as a 1940s soldier yearning for his lost wife, now holding a scientist’s smartphone, haha.
Life, huh?!! Could you text Jameson back for me?
Tell him to check his emails. Literally my only means of comms right now!
Allie via Milo’s phone: Hi! Sure.
Milo: Also, an app keeps springing up with super overactive flame emojis saying something about ‘count your chicks’??? Need me to do anything?
Allie: Oh, that’s good news. No, Count Your Chicks is my website.
Milo: Website? Cool!! What sort of website?
Allie: It’s time-lapse wildlife cameras where people can watch the birds we track in Bermuda and other places, and count them for us. It still won’t let me log into it here unfortunately, so it might keep going off for now. Starts panicking about security and being logged into another device.
Milo: I love that idea!!! Can I go see? And what does counting do?
Allie: Yes, go ahead. I had 22 members last I checked, I need all the eyes I can get, ha ha. And counting helps us track population numbers over time.
Milo: Currently looking at puffins in Scotland. This is super cool, Allie!! Do you travel a lot?
Allie: Mostly in spring/summer. I suppose I’m home and away equally as much! It’s mostly always about the breeding seasons.
Milo: Same. Save for the whole breeding thing ??
Allie: Ha. Relieved to hear this.
Milo: Also, feel free to pick up the coffee. They sent me a black card, but no Bunty’s over here!! ?? Nearest town here has no electricity. Seriously!! Like, real Dickensian shit. No stores or restaurants. Probably a good thing, though. Curbing my caffeine right now.
Allie: Curbing caffeine AND screens? Life is tough enough as it is, I say, Milo. We all need a bit of balance.
Milo: Ah, but I’m not a man of balance, Allie ??
Allie: Ha. Well, I’ve never actually been to a Bunty’s, so maybe I will. Their big neon yellow sign always reminds me of one of those ‘biohazard’ warning signs. People disposing of blood and stuff? Probably why I’ve never been in.
Milo: . . . I thought it was a little honey bee? Not anymore, I guess!!?
Allie: Sorry about that.
Milo: I mean, chances are high you might hate it with my drink!! It’s an interesting one? You’ve gotta tell me if you do, though. I’m a big boy, I can take it.
Allie: Am expecting biohazardous waste, so the bar is low.
Allie: Also, Jameson has just replied. Just said: ‘Oh yeah? Thank u kind stranger :-)’
Milo: Haha, thanks!! ‘Kind stranger . . .’
Allie: You’re welcome. Kind stranger.
Milo: Ahhh, look at us! ?? We’re really phone-secretarying away here, right???
Allie: And only 16 more days to go!