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[selfimmolation]

Well, if it's what you want, you should go for it. Shake him down for both of us.

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Yeah, I will. I might have to get in line though.

[selfimmolation]

More like you'll have to work fast against the people who want to punch him in the mouth and swallow his own teeth.

[ballies]

Please, I don't think I have half the claim others do. But I can make his life hell once he's swallowed his teeth and has to answer all my questions.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah, I'd believe it. [ teasing. ]

[ballies]

[ nyeh. ]

Rude.

He deserves it though.

[selfimmolation]

Yeah. If anyone does, it's that guy.

[ballies]

I just... hope we can figure out a way to reach him sooner rather than later. There's still a couple of weeks of this.

[ ... ]

I'd prefer if there wasn't. [ smash cut to dead lillium and albedo this week i guess. ]

[selfimmolation]

... You guys'll be alright. It's only three more weeks.

[ ignoring all the dead stuff ]

[ballies]

... God. Don't remind me, this is going to be three very long weeks.

[selfimmolation]

... Sorry.

[ he doesn't have to be there! he will be super dead. ]

[ballies]

Don't apologise.

It's not like we've been able to do anything to stop it, I'll just... deal with each week as it comes.

[ man. let me IN. ]

[selfimmolation]

... You'll manage. You've been strong so far.

[ no ]

[ballies]

... Maybe. [ she's not entirely sure about that. ] It's not like we have the luxury of just stopping.

[ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ]

[selfimmolation]

... No, you don't. But I've got faith in you guys. You'll make it.

[ballies]

Right. Spite and all that.

[selfimmolation]

You're decent enough at it.

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Hey, I'm a joy to be around. Mostly.

[selfimmolation]

Mostly is the important part!

[ballies]

[ he is so rude. ]

I’ll channel that ‘mostly’ into something especially unbearable just for this moon guy.

[ … ]

It’d be nice if all our conspiracy theories about the people we’ve lost still being around were true though. [ she’s thinking very Intently about that cat pun in the paper from the other week. ]

[selfimmolation]

... I don't know how much awareness they have, but... Mika used to sign all her texts with that star. And some of these sounded like Rocket. I don't know. Maybe I'll be writing for the newspaper.

[ his smile says that he does not entirely believe it, though ]

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A lot of them sound angry, which sounded a little.... Rocket-like.

I'm sure we'll be able to pick yours out if you do get some kind of career in journalism out of all this. [ smash cut to HOW TO BUILD A BOAT 101 ] I don't think that'd be a bad thing, knowing that there is somewhere the dead are, and that you made it there okay.

[selfimmolation]

I already promised I'd write if there's an option out there. [ smash cut to him just crying about the ocean in the newspaper for 10 years but ] ... But I don't know if I'm lucky enough to get brought back twice.

[ he says lucky like he means something else, but its fine ]

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[ everyone looking at the paper in week 5 like hoo boy he went through it.


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“Lucky”, huh? [ the idea of someone coming back from the dead, well— in 48 hours she’ll be pinning some hopes on exactly that, just enough that if it isn’t true it won’t be a crushing revelation, but still. the thought is still a strange one. ] If it happens, then I don’t think I need to be telling you about the importance of seizing chances.

[selfimmolation]

I'm pretty good at that. [ seizing chances, he means, but he says it lightly enough because he is still. kind of convinced he's dead at the end of all this and it's hard to think of things in a more permanent fashion when at best he'll die tomorrow and then be brought back long enough to--what? say goodbye again? he doesn't say this. ] I'll do what I can to help from there, too, if that's possible at all.