H3VN 4/30/2024 21:20:18 HW 33.3
i've been thinking. it's been so nice getting to see you again. i miss everyone being together. talking and laughing. your head on my shoulder.
think any of them would talk to us again? i miss mal i guess. is she ok? did you see her?
I didn’t see her on my travels! Thought she was the one who helped you hide out here.
yeah! well you know how you always need a way back out, right? if you don't wanna delete anything. passwords work, but what if something really bad happens and you lose the password?
figured if I told mal she would keep it secret for me. and also she'd come get me if she had to. but I guess your pals managed to get here on their own. maybe I'm not smart enough to keep anything too secret for too long haha
No, no! It’s strange. Seems like they were almost givin’ me messages from you?
But you’re certain you ain’t ever talked to them?
I mean, if they were lyin’, I’m glad you coincidentally felt a positive-like way ‘bout me! Thought you hated me for a while. But those messages — real or not — were real persuasive.
i mean, i'm pretty sure i'd remember talking to them. unless it got deleted? but it's weird, usually when i get rid of something i remember the getting rid of it at least.
i mean, i guess i thought i didn't want to see you because i wouldn't be able to talk to you about everything. but a couple weeks ago... i dunno! just felt like i ought to give you a chance to talk about it. and boy am i glad i did
Huh. I mean, they did say you were in trouble. Right before I headed out. Remember anything ‘bout that?
not really. far as i recall i've been just sitting here. felt real sad and then felt a little better and then felt hopeful.
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guess i was missing you a lot right before you came here. it was like someone heard me and sent you here to me haha
I mean —
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Apologies if this is a sore subject, but —
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What about the, uh, the thing hangin’ ‘round here?
the what?
That...failed experiment of mine!
oh
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yeah, i saw them just recently. it's a little fuzzy and rainbowy like everything around them, i guess.
i tried to...
huh.
touch them? but they didn't like it much. don't recall what happened after that
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you know i still wonder if we could get close enough to them-- like maybe we could pull it apart again and they'd go back to normal.
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you're giving me a look like "that's not how science works" huh
Kid, that’s —
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Too risky. I mean, if they did something to ya, you could —
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I mean, you remember what happened to Tati, right?
what happened to tati?
Oh. That’s right, you'd left by then. Well, then I really oughtta warn ya! That thing ripped a chunk of her right outta her. Blipped most of her outta existence!
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Old songs, old chats, a lotta stuff gone completely. Not scattered somewhere or spread out or somethin', gone for good. Gave me and Mallory Jane a spook!
woah. is she ok? she's still around? geez. can we help her? you're sure her stuff's not... anywhere? i know i've gotten bits of me shaved off before and they're always lying around someplace
geez. that's scary.
I hear she’s doin’ better? Probably had the sense to keep some things in hiding.
So I s’pose what little was left of her survived through that.
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Ain’t like anything I'd ever seen before.
huh. think the experiment did it? or do you think one of them could do it before and just hadn't told anyone?
S’pose if it was one of 'em, her old lover boy would be the one with a reason to do it. Never struck me as exceptional in any way, so I doubt it.
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it doesn't feel right to me to just leave them that way though. i don't think they like it very much.
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but i think you're right
it's too dangerous for any of us to try.
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honestly it's kind of exciting. i mean if you get yourself all deleted that's like death, right? never thought we could die
Hey! Don't go gettin' any ideas, big boy. I ain’t lettin’ an inch of you get hurt.
me neither. i mean an inch of you or me
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i mean to be honest maybe i woulda thought about it more this year if I'd known. i wasn't happy or sad or much of anything really. wouldn't have been that different. but i'm glad i didn't know.
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now i want to spend as much time as i can with you.
Yes!
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Speaking of.
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​Wanna continue where we left off, handsome?
