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[featherduster]

i preemptively know i'll need this

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top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ From here

Gawks at him, openly ]

--What happened to your horns??

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

Caught some visions up to make a point.

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ Lifts his hand like he's going to touch one but then remembers to be normal and stops ]

What point is that?

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

[shakes his head, then takes Aloe’s hand, putting it up to one of the horns himself]

Not to you. I went to go—see my family.

1/2

[featherduster]

[ DELIGHTED HORN-PETTING INTERLUDE ]

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ --Wait...

Pauses, looking at him ]

Your family?

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

At—

[names a cemetery in the Acidia area Aloe is probably familiar with lol]

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ ... Drops his hand ]


I see.

Did you-- get what you needed from it?

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

Yes.

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ His eyes flick to the horns again ]

What was the point you were proving?

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

That I was fine leaving them behind.

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

...

[ Reaching for his hand ]

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

[lets him take it, though he gives him a puzzled look]

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

Just from the little you've said... they didn't deserve you anyway.

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

I don’t blame Marta. But she is gone along with them, anyway.

It’s fine.

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

Your sister?

... What happened, exactly?

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

[tilts his head a little]

I told you what happened to them. Or do you mean, what happened to make me take visions?

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

That. When we talked about them before, you seemed...

Not "over it," obviously. But like you didn't think it was worth any more of your time.

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

Maybe I just wanted to make a dramatic gesture. I don’t know. Is it really that important?

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ Tips his head, considering ]

It's important, I think.

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

Why?

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

I feel like it's another part of deciding who you want to be.

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

…if I’m not going to be replaced, then that history is still mine. Even if I get to leave it behind. That’s all.

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ His lips twitch a bit ]

I think it's okay to accept it's yours, but still want to crush it under your heel a little.

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

I don’t feel like dwelling on it enough to crush anything.

Let’s talk about you instead.