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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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[splinten]

[LITERALLY PAUSES FOR A MOMENT IN CONFUSION BECAUSE HE THINKS IT'S A METAPHOR AND THEN]

Oh you meant literally.

[HE TAKES HIS THUMB OFF HIS SHADES. HE IS AN IDIOT.]

Sorry, didn't intend to.

[parodeity]

It's fine. I hate your blood. [ said conversationally. ] What do you want to do?

[splinten]

On a broader level, not make you miserable every time we interact. It's why I offered to do something else before we decide on anything. The reverse concern is that not dealing with it immediately will overshadow everything.

[parodeity]

I...don't know. I can ignore pretty much whatever if I throw myself into an activity.

[splinten]

My suggestion was the sand castle or my horse mural.

[parodeity]

Who have you done your squares with so far.

[splinten]

[Dirk shows Dave his card (he hasn't raced Aki yet and most of the in-progress ones would probably be blacked out at this point, plus the hanging out with a stranger one)]

I managed to get rid of the memory-with-a-stranger one by telling a dude about another stupid and meaningless moment regarding gettin' flustered by English that wasn't worth bringing up. I've been keepin' the sandcastle and the horse mural for you.

[parodeity]

Oh.

[ well then. dave doesn't pull out his own phone. he decides he has no commentary on any of the squares or anything dirk said, and defaults to: ]

Whatever you wanna do works for me.

[splinten]

[He frowns.] What's that for.

[parodeity]

What's what for? [ blankly. ]

[splinten]

You gave a flat 'oh' and then did the thing where you surrender all directive power over the situation.

[parodeity]

Couldn't think of anythin' else to say. And I frequently try to surrender all direction power over a lot of situations.

[splinten]

I know. But you asked who, presumably for a reason. And then had nothin' to say.

[parodeity]

You told me who. I have zero commentary to share.

[splinten]

Why did you ask?

[parodeity]

I wanted to know how you got rid of the memory squares.

[splinten]

I obviously got the Retrospec one with you. The one I got rid of with a stranger was someone who randomly dialled me up for their card. I told them about a stupid almost-kiss thing I had with English, the kind of thing that's happened so often I don't bother to bring up all of them. [He has told Dave about plenty of them, in anguish, but this one was so blase he didn't bother.] What about you?

[parodeity]

Oh. [ FOR LACK OF A BETTER THING TO SAY. he's already on record as not enjoying not being the person dirk goes to for things, but refuses to clarify why he's blanking out on dirk. ] Shared somethin' that wasn't mine with a lady in the park and shared somethin' that was mine with a dude who has a twin sister.

[splinten]

[He frowns, because that's exactly why he picked that memory: so it wouldn't be upsetting Dave.] I chose that because it was a particular incident that hadn't come up between us, but I always tell you everything essential about my situation. It wasn't confiding in him or anything, and I didn't give him a name or time. It was just... a random thing.

I'm sorry. I thought it worked to meet the requirements without... [He gestures.] I'm sorry.

[parodeity]

It did. [ that's not an issue. ] There's no reason to be sorry, I just have...no comments to share? It ain't like I bothered to play by any kinda rule.

[splinten]

I'm sorry because it feels like I went to someone before I went to you, even though it was exactly my intention to find something that wouldn't be like that, which is why I picked a commonplace.

[parodeity]

It ain't a thing you need to be sorry about. I'm not, like...mad or whatever.

[ a shrug. ]

I just shared the other guy's thing. For the stranger.

[splinten]

That doesn't mean you aren't hurt.

[If they're going by exact truths.]

I thought about it. Dante's is too intimate to share with anyone, though. You're the only person I've told.

[parodeity]

I got a thing that - well, if I talk to you about it, you'll probably get a thing.

[ fucking horrorterrors in the sky. ]

...But everyone else should be safe from it. Like, not our people, but like...unrelated people. Except people with whatever the fuck I am currently.

[ he just doesn't address the hurt part. ]

[splinten]

You know that pretty much confirms it. So, I'm sorry. I tried to pick a thing insignificant enough that it wouldn't hurt you if I told someone else. But it didn't work and I'm sorry.

[He doesn't really expect a response.]

I don't mind hearin' about it. You know I'm trying to remember things. I have still kept my shit to myself.