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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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[windeity]

Hollywood is always fake but...I don't know. We could definitely talk about those things. I don't think we ever do since we talk all the time anyway so it seems...dumb, maybe? Well not dumb but you know what I mean.

[parodeity]

Okay. You go first. [ dave that's not how it works ]

[windeity]

Um. What? Like about what, what do I even say?

[parodeity]

I don't know? Pick one of the things we don't talk about or something we do?

[windeity]

[Hm.] How are you feeling? [May as well start there.]

[parodeity]

Wow. You literally just pulled out the atomic warfare question one??? [ so in dave speak...not great ]

[windeity]

Dave. [A little more serious this time.] Don't stall?

[parodeity]

...sick. [ that seems to sum it all up nicely. ] But not really.

[windeity]

[He just pets Dave's hair.]

...it started when we leave Magatus, didn't it.

[parodeity]

You didn't say how you feel.

[windeity]

[Ah.] ...my head hurts pretty bad, but that's not really. [Hmmmmmm.] It's been like this on and off, I think. Stress maybe, I don't know.

[But even so a hand comes up to touch one of Dave's marks, tentatively poking at it.]

[parodeity]

[ he bats john's hand away a little. ] Serious, babe?

[windeity]

I am serious. My head hurts, you feel like you have a fever, and I think all of this started a few days ago when we got back. Yes or no?

[parodeity]

...Yeah. I kinda don't want to go back but I'm starting to feel like we might have to consider it.

[windeity]

That's seven hours one way. What if...I don't know, what if there's something else we're missing here? I thought it would go away when we left but obviously it didn't. It just stopped glowing so much. So maybe it's not necessarily tied to that place?

[parodeity]

Like what happened when it started?

[windeity]

[...] Do you want to go back and listen to those voices again?

[parodeity]

Not really. [ they weren't saying anything he didn't know. ] But maybe we're supposed to.

[windeity]

Why? [He doesn't like that plan.] We don't know that they won't just repeat themselves all over again, so what would be the point? If we already know what they're saying and everything we could just stay here.

[parodeity]

Because they're getting worse? Look, we can ignore that and pretend we never brought it up but it's kind of not...great?

[windeity]

I know. I know, I know, I'm just...I don't want to go back, so can we just talk about it here maybe? I don't even know what you heard.

[parodeity]

I already went first, it's your turn.

[windeity]

About what I heard? [A frown.] It was just...shit. I didn't manage to do.

[parodeity]

I'm not really sure what you mean by that, sweetheart. [ p sure john has said he finds that particular ephitet dumb before but dave does whatever he wants, which is mostly "calls john a variety of things anywhere in the gamut of dude/bro to darling". ]

[windeity]

Just...[A hand comes up again to thread into Dave's hair. He doesn't say anything about that particular name at the moment though.] Things I failed to do or things I fucked up, stuff like that. The trees knew about it. That is what I heard. Everything I failed to do for you guys. Which is dumb since that was another life but then there's also stuff from here about other people that I can't even fix, I don't think.