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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHEERYCHERRY. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 019.46.820.17 * CHEERYCHERRY has joined 019.46.820.17 <CHEERYCHERRY> It's Riley! <CHEERYCHERRY> Please leave a message! <CHEERYCHERRY>** Please be someone with their priorities sorted out properly!

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[Ah... So, it's like that. She thought so.]

It's not great now.
And if people don't attempt to make it better, it won't happen.
There's always going to be someone or something that wants to spoil this place for everyone else.

That's why we need to try and improve it ourselves.

How?
It's going to happen again.
Everything is going to get messed up again.
Anything we do will just be destroyed.

Yes, it's probably going to happen again.
Things are going to get messed up.
But if we don't try to improve or push for something better than this, they'll get even worse.
Even if I don't intend to stay here forever, I don't want to leave this world in tatters just because the Fog or the Fourth wants total control.

We're supposed to fix this place?
I never asked to be brought here.
I just wanted to be a normal kid.

Nobody asked for this. Nobody should.
You don't have to do anything if you can't, Riley. It's okay.
I'll fix things.
In the meantime, if you do come down to the office, I promise that it's safe.

How can anywhere be "safe" when something horrible's just going to happen again?

Because I'm making it safe. It's magically protected.
That's how you beat it, by not playing at its game.
Don't give into the choices this place wants you to make.

Listen, do you need anything?
You're eating enough, right?

[ ....................... ]

i don't want to eat anything

[Ominous text.]

Have you eaten at all today?

no
please don't make me

when was the last time you did eat

it doesn't do anything anymore

[ dodging the question. ]

I've never met a monster that didn't have to eat.
So I'm sorry, Riley, but I don't believe that.
Is it okay if I bring you something.

[It's not a question, really. She's already seeing what she can pull together out of bakery leftovers.]

[ And there's the problem: Riley's still thinking of food like what she used to rely on for substance. She feels sick, knowing that's not the same anymore. ]

no!
please don't
please i can't do it again

Can't do WHAT again?
Riley?

Hey.
You can talk to me.

[ There's a notable pause. A notable delay. And then: ]

did you touch it?
the candy?
back on valentine's day. did you have that thing come out of you?

i couldn't make it stop. it kept talking even after it died.
the only way was to eat it

before that, i hadn't

please don't make me do it again.
not yet

Edited 2021-04-09 21:41 (UTC)

The candies? No. I didn't.

[Truthfully, they hadn't noticed them until later, and had quickly discarded them.]

You couldn't make
Oh.
Oh, Riley.

[The details aren't blunt, but Cassandra picks up on it anyway.]

I won't make you eat anyone.
I swear.

[ Another pause. ]

thank you

i know i have to, i KNOW i just
i can't yet
i did that and

it didn't even count

It didn't, huh.
Ugh. This place is the worst with rules like that.

[A pause of her own. Considering. Thinking.]

Can I at least come check on you?

i don't want anyone to see me right now.

How about tomorrow?

i don't know.

Let's say tomorrow, okay?
I'll bring you food.
REAL food. I promise.
Just try to drink liquids today.

[ ...Riley is, honestly, tired of arguing. ]

fine.

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