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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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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.