aliveandticking

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hello!
this wasnt where i meant to end up
maybe i made a mistake but i dont think so
there was a new phone waiting for me and everything
so possibly this is where i need to be!

is anyone else here
people i know i mean
there are a few people walking around but theyre all human
and not the humans ive met

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[He's startled to get an armful of Aradia, for a couple of reasons, but he slowly wraps his arms around her and holds her tight] I still really care about you, too, aa. And...I'm sorry I'm so messed up.

I think a lot of us are pretty messed up. Maybe that's why we're here! So we can have a bit of a break to figure everything out.

[He hadn't thought of that. He shrugs and rests his chin on her shoulder]

Yeah, maybe. Who knows? I don't mind if we never go back.

We have to go back someday. [ she pets his hair absently while she thinks ] I think this place has a different time flow than our universe, so we can probably stay for a long time without affecting what happens there. But there are things we have to do.

[He mutters irritably, but he likes the petting and it's nice to just talk about something that's not very emotional]

I'm blind and have no powers. I don't think there's much I can do to save our race.

You would be surprised! I have a feeling there's still more for you to do. But you probably don't want to talk about this.

Not really. [He smiles sheepishly] Like I said, I'd be happy to stay here, aa. Maybe that'll change, but things seem a lot better than they were in the Veil, even if they're also pretty fucked up.

[ she bites her tongue on happenings at home for now. It's harder to keep track of here, anyway, the things that are, that were, that could be, that must not-- she has an inkling of them, from her awakened abilities and from the voices of the dead, but it still takes effort to keep them all straight-- so she lets that go as much as she can, even though it's always going to be in the back of her mind.

She withdraws a little, enough to look around the room, keeping her hands loosely around his shoulders so he'll know she's still there ]

It even feels nicer here! The air smells a lot fresher.

Yeah, that's true. [His smile relaxes a bit] I haven't really explored very much, obviously, but hopefully I'll get good enough in a couple more weeks to get around by myself. I hear there's a big city.

Yeah, there is! At least, it looked pretty big from where I was. I'm not really used to cities, so I don't know if it's big in general.

Well, I know I had to walk pretty damn far my first night. [Sollux looked a bit wry] Not sure where I showed up, but I was stuck in some kind of alley underground until tz and ck came to get me.

After I get settled wherever I'm staying, I think I'll explore a little! If there's an underground, I want to see it. [ hello old interests she's missed you dearly ]

[Wow, he hadn't expected to feel so good about her showing interest in something again. He smiles and reaches up, giving a lock of her hair a tug] Just be careful about the monsters. Not that you need to be careful.

I'm sure they can't be any worse here than in the game! I just need to find a whip. [ she pokes him in the cheek in retaliation, grinning ]

You don't have yours anymore? [He's startled by that] Though you always have your powers, too.

I don't think my captchalogue carried over! Anyway, when I was a robot, I mostly just punched things, so I unequipped the whipkind specibus after a while.

Oh, that sucks. Mine totally did, thank gog. I'd be nuts if I didn't have my husktop. [He grins suddenly, remembering how he reprogrammed Dave's to troll him.]

I wasn't carrying that much, anyway! Who's gog? [ guess who was being a mopey mopebot in a corner when all these sweet bits of slang were being coined ]

Huh? Oh. I dunno. [He shrugs, smiling wryly] Something one of the humans said, I think. They thank gog for everything, and kk picked it up because he's all up in John's nook, and now we all kinda say it.

I really need to catch up on talking to the humans! I mean I would have talked to them eventually but this way I know I'm talking to the right version I guess.

[He just shakes his head wryly] Well, you've got lots of chances to talk to them, now. Three of them are here.

Maybe one of them would come adventuring with me? I don't even need to ask you to know you'd rather be programming any day. [ she laughs, to let him know she doesn't mean it unkindly ]

[He laughs and shrugs, knowing it's 100% true] I bet eg would. Uh, that's John.

I'll ask him! I want to learn more about that clock I was told about.

Oh yeah? What clock?

[He has noticed the ticking, but what with everything he hasn't given it much thought. Considering what he used to have to deal with, a doomsday clock in his head is pretty much background static]

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