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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]

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.

[parodeity]

I know why I am, but why are you?

[splinten]

Why I've done which?

[parodeity]

Why're you tryin' to remember.

[splinten]

There's more than one reason. [He is playing with the edge of his shades again. Realizing it, he puts them aside.]

I don't like being ignorant is one reason, plain and simple. It feels important, and I have havin' those gaps. I also don't like being surprised by shit and would rather have some control on when it came to me.

[But. There's one other thing. His voice is quieter.]

And I want to go with you throughout this entire thing. So I want to try to keep pace, for as far ahead as you are.

[parodeity]

I'm basically three quarters to one hundred. Keepin' pace might be hard.

[splinten]

It's basically a marathon where I'm miles behind and you have a higher top speed. I'm still going for it.

[parodeity]

I never know if I tell you this shit because I want to or because I have to.

[ but it's a corner and he's in it, so he says: ]

I took off my shades and looked up.

[splinten]

You don't have to anymore if you choose that.

[He says it calmly. A memory may or may not hit him with what Dave is saying, but he wants to say that.]

That was going to be one of my offers. I intend on sticking to my side of not telling others anything they don't know already and telling you the memories I get. I was going to offer you the opportunity not to have to do the same in return, without me backing out of my end of it.

[parodeity]

One of your offers.

[ how many offers is dirk even making. ]

The memory I gave away was a monster moon in the sky. Not sure what the fuck that was about. But over Derse, you know, if you looked up - that's where they were. You could see them, or hear them, if you didn't ignore it. The elder gods, the horrorterrors, whatever.

Rose told me to go out and take off my shades and look and listen, so I did.

[ it's a tiny memory, one that barely matters in the long run of things. there's more that matters that he hasn't said. even this tiny thing is a trial to get out. ]

[splinten]

Or we could stick to things as they are. That was another offer. Or we could modify it, so you only have to tell me shit once a week or somethin' and the rest is free game.

[He trying to offer as many choices as he can. He is trying to keep Dave safe.]

Why did she suggest that? Aside from her love of all things Lovecraftian.

[parodeity]

I'm not...sure.

[ his brows draw together as he puzzles it through. ]

It was right before - somethin' else. I think they wanted to talk to me. It was like...peerin' through the dark portal of an eldritch red lobster and lookin' at the all you can eat seafood buffet. When I saw 'em, their voices got clearer and clearer. Even though that was true, I couldn't focus on specifics. But it was like...a plea for help.

[splinten]

Cthulhu needed you guys for an assist?

[parodeity]

I'm...fairly sure that's why we did what we did after.

[splinten]

What did you do?

[parodeity]

Didn't I tell you that one already?

[ he'd died, he'd looked at rose and they'd both died.

thinking of it, he's not sure he ever told dirk he knew why, or that they'd argued over which of them would die, or that he'd basically overruled rose overruling him and they'd died together. ]

[splinten]

I don't know. If you have, you didn't tell me what it was connected to.

[He knows that memory, but he doesn't know this was the lead in.]

[parodeity]

We died.

[ but he hadn't told dirk about the argument, he realizes, because that's really, really new information. ]

[splinten]

[Oh.]

The time you went together.

[parodeity]

It was a suicide mission.

[ thanks elder gods ]

[splinten]

Thanks, Elder Gods.

[There isn't even a pause this time, just a slight frown that someone not Dave would have a hard time reading. Dirk is getting better.]

Decapitation comes up too often with me. Apparently that's what I did with the Dersite agent. And then stuck the head on a pole in the middle of Derse with a message for the Condesce.