WEEK THREE: SUNDAY AFTERNOON, LUNCH

[parodeity]

[ well, last week was a week. this week is already a week. but dave shows up for lunch with velvet like clockwork, maybe a little quieter than usual (that's been happening since last week) but not making her track him down like she once told him she would do. ]

Hey. How're you doin'? [ paranoia and lack of trust is a thing apparently but he doesn't show any signs of being any different. he's been having those issues for weeks, and it's only monday. ]

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[breaksouls]

I won't say you're welcome since that doesn't feel right... So thank you.

[She smiles brightly, with the kind of smile that belongs to a kind older sister rather than a therion. Velvet's far from the girl she once was, but this is the probably the closest Dave or anyone here will get to see.]

I don't feel like I did anything particularly remarkable, but... despite everything, you still see me as a person. Thank you, Dave.

[A thought suddenly hits her!]

Oh... do you have any um, nicknames you like going by? Dave's a pretty short name, so my first thought was Davey, but that sounds kinda silly... I guess, just Dave is fine, huh...

[parodeity]

Um...no one's ever really used one? Craftly keeps callin' me "David" and Rose has done before too, but it's like. Not my name.

[ geeze. ]

...You can call me Davey if you want, though.

[breaksouls]

D-Davey...

[She says, trying it out.]

Davey. Does that sound alright? I won't... um, say it in front of anyone. I'm sure that'd embarrass you, after all...

[parodeity]

[ like, no one has ever used it before so. ]

I don't mind. I mean, if you do? It's not..embarrassin' really. Is there something I should call you?

[breaksouls]

Well, isn't it childish? That's how Laphi felt anyways...

[Phi too, but it's too difficult to explain her two brothers named Laphicet thing.]

But Velvet is fine. Big sister seems a little much, and my brothers really never called me that either.

[parodeity]

I dunno, I've never really...I guess I don't mind someone treatin' me like a kid sometimes. [ it never happened while he was one. ] But uh, Velvet, then. Though if you - ever want, I can call you Sis.

[breaksouls]

You're a little older than him, so I thought you might be more stubborn about it honestly. Guess I was wrong.

[When she was a younger teenager, she hated being called young so she could understand some of Laphi and Phi's distress. Still, she had to grow up pretty quickly...]

Sis is... it's nice. Maybe just when we're alone, though.

[parodeity]

If you're okay with it?

[ he knows he sounds pathetically hopeful, or maybe just pathetic, but he wants something even if he deserves nothing. at least he'd like to pretend a little bit. ]

[breaksouls]

Yeah. I am.

[There's a pause as she thinks of something else amidst this very sweet moment.]

What would you do... if you didn't have to return to your world? I don't mean staying here forever, but...

[parodeity]

I don't know. I'd go somewhere else, I guess, and do what I had to do until I could just...stop.

[breaksouls]

Stop...?

If they were able to bring us here, it's possible you wouldn't have to return. That's what I'm wondering...

If you came to my world, your life wouldn't be easy, but you'd be able to live. I'm sure Phi would like having someone his age around too and... Sorry, this probably sounds so stupid coming from someone like me.

[parodeity]

Existin'. [ but this is a different option and one he didn't really consider too much. the world velvet needs to go back to, to die in. maybe he could help her with that, and then...stop. it would mean not seeing rose again (they're all doomed, dirk said so, and dave doesn't think that's a lie) but he's too heartsick to want to. ]

It doesn't sound stupid, I...I'd like that. I dunno what I'd do with an easy life, anyway.

[breaksouls]

That's what I thought...

[She huffs, and although she's not going to scold him on the existing thing it's clearly an angry huff. It's only okay for her to stop existing.]

The village we're stationed in right now is called Meirchio. It's covered in snow, but it's known for its hot springs. We scared all the villagers away so you'd have the place to yourself. Well, along with a bunch of pirates. I won't be there for much longer... like I told you before. But there'd be others, of course. And I guess you could become a pirate if you really wanted to.

[parodeity]

I'd like to go there with you. I could help you 'till the end. [ better than going back home and waiting two years for a certain death, all while wanting so badly to die. ]

[breaksouls]

[Well, helping her out in the battle definitely isn't going to happen, but he doesn't need to know that now.]

You can have whatever Gald I leave behind too. There's a witch who might try to swindle you out of it, though, so just don't listen to anything she says. That's... pretty good advice for dealing with her on a regular basis, actually.

I'll do my best to create a world you can live in. Not just exist.

[parodeity]

I... [ he doesn't want to at this point, he just wants to stop, a bone-deep weariness he can't shake. but he swallows it down. ] I'm not sure what that kind of world would look like. But I'd like to see it, maybe.