( limelight ) overflow

[featherduster]

i preemptively know i'll need this

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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.

Re: top-level (frost)

[featherduster]

[ Top ten phrases you never want to hear

Immediately goes back to drinking ]

You're more interesting.

Re: top-level (frost)

[endsjustified]

You’re biased. Also, I’m literally compelled to talk to you about these.

[fans the memory slips in front of Aloe like a card hand, revealing the real folly of what he dropped in the bowl. I’m gonna say that while they’re there, they’re not obliged to talk about memories Frost has already seen before for sanity though]