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...bugs?

[From the look on his face, clearly not.

He is unsure how bugs can lead to kittens. There are horrible possibilities in his head. But he's about to find out.]

[ Riley simply sighs, long and frustrated. ]

Okay. So, when I first...woke up here, back in November, it was in this...underground tunnel system. Apparently, these...weird bugs the size of children found all of us who'd just been dropped on the ground by the freakin' fog lady, and decided to...wrap us up in their webs for a party for their queen.

[ ...She shivers a little. It wasn't...as bad as it could have been. She knows that now. But she still didn't like it. ]

And when we woke up, they had...like— they kept handing out party favors? A bunch of deep-fried rocks and other...stupid things they thought we could eat. [ She starts gently massaging Maple behind the ears, and the kitten just...he loves it. He flops over. ] Some of them...were little kittens. He probably wasn't even a month old. They definitely didn't know how to feed them, or worse, thought...we would want to eat them. So... Well, there was no way I could just leave him there.

I could never forget you, my dear.

[The hand that had smoothed over her feathers like a doting parent, instead pulls Riley's face to plant firmly in his chest.

He continues to pet over her feathered hair soothingly.]

No need to worry your pretty little head, okay?

[ Riley doesn't fight it, not one bit. The amount of trust she's placed in Eridanus is frankly unreal, unlike any trust she's felt before.

Like this, she's safe. She's secure.

She just nods against him. ]

Okay, dad.

it matters :)

[ The included smile is entirely friendly, or intended to be. While the power of PA emojis is something he's witnessed, utilizing them in such a way himself is not yet a skill in his repertoire. ]

if you ever feel like hey i DO want a birthday cake and a birthday song, actually.
let me know.

we can have a make-up day where we do all the cheesy traditional stuff.

[Fixing it. It's the same phrase Rachel uses. The same phrase he uses.

His fingers hesitate.]

Was that the first time you fixed a problem?

[ Who's she talking to? She doesn't know. She just answers. Like a good girl. ]

i couldn't think of anything else
i had to
no one else was going to
i had to!!

[He feels it, that chill he'd get at the base of his neck whenever cracking open someone's head. As a boy, telepathy was the only way he could make sense of the human experience; witnessing another person's thoughts twist and turn quickly became his drug. He so rarely experiences anything like that these days.

He leans closer to the screen.]

They blamed you, didn't they? They told you that you were being irrational.

[He's guessing, painting a pathway with his words that he hopes she'll follow.]

Edited 2021-04-28 01:33 (UTC)

[ Where is she? What's... ]

they weren't doing anything
they were making it worse
i had to
we were infected

[ ...Wait— ]

no i ccant

i shouldnt talk about this

[ Thankfully Riley is not really a passive-aggressive emoji-user. ]

I'll see how I'm feeling?
Honestly even though my family didn't care, Cairo usually got me a cake and a Jake Gyllenhaal movie night or something like that so it's kind of weird to not have that.
I'm not sure if I want some kind of replacement.

gyllenhaal.

like the same guy other you liked, with all the stubble and the messy eyebrows?

He's a cinematic GENIUS, Steve.

so this is a universal crush that all rileys have

Shut up!! You just don't know because you haven't seen his work. He's good in EVERY genre. This isn't just a crush, it's a respect for craft.

Besides, I was still mostly me.

ok, but i just asked myself a question after reading that and you're probably going to want to hear this. are you ready?

he's an actor from back home, right
he was also an actor in weirdo bavan

how was he in both places? does that mean he's actually here somewhere, as a monster?

I was not ready.

He can’t be there are only SO many monsters and okay so Rafe kind of looked like him but that wasn’t the same you know, and he was HUMAN in the bizarro Bavan, right??

Oh, crap. I gotta talk to Giorno.

[ ... ]

why, does he like jake gyllenhaal, too?

No!!!!
i mean if he doesn't he should but

NO, because he was asking about something like this! There was a girl he knew from home here but not really HERE in the other world.

...oh.

[Inside the other Yugi's brain, two subroutines are running. One is filing away the data: that's three entry points he's aware of, all of them involved initial immobilization and safety before leading to rescue, but rougher and more painful ones aren't unheard-of.

The other is--]

Of course you had to keep him.

[He'd thought Maple had come from Poundmates; apparently, though, he's a rescue, and yes, Riley was good and right to keep this cat, love and protect Maple for the rest of his life.]

...are the bugs still there?

Edited (thanks for nothing, autocorrect) 2021-04-28 14:17 (UTC)

Why shouldn't you, Riley? I like to fix things as well.

We're one and the same.

does that mean it’s food

[Snack? Snack? Snack?]

[Making people smile is one of those things that he’s recently learned he likes to do. In that other world, he was better at it; he had more practice. But he’s gotten better at it, at least with Riley, someone who rarely smiles in a way that’s soft instead of tense. Those are the smiles that feel rewarding to see.]

No one has ever called me sweet before, Riley. I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. Everyone must have gotten the wrong impression of me over there, and now they’ll be disappointed to find out I’m a bastard.

no
no im not

im not im not im NOT

[ All of a sudden, her laptop is not in front of her, in her bed. It's shoved to the floor with a mighty crack and thud—they're sturdy things, it'll be fine.

Riley can't breathe. She sits straight as a board, terrified of moving yet trembling all the same. Her claws dig into, through her sheets and to her mattress. She gasps for air, as if it'll make the things in her head stop screaming, as if it'll erase the last month, months, year, years and give her even the slightest bit of guidance. She stays like that, still and tense, until something snaps and she crumples, into a little ball while the screaming moves outward, into her knees and on and on and on, until she feels completely hoarse.

And she stays there. For the longest time. Until morning. Not sleeping. Not thinking. Not answering any further messages Aunamee may send. ]

That would be telling. :)
Sooner we meet up, sooner you'll know.

ugh fine

give me an hour and i'll be there.

[Up in the tree like usual. Swinging his feet from the branches.]

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