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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Heroes
When: Day 36 night
Where: Back outside the train

[Well. You’re all in some kind of. State. A rather chagrined voice mutters on the wind;]

That isn’t quite how I envisioned it going…

[At any rate! There are new stars in the sky in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple and senna terracotta.

Well how are you all doing?]

Comments

[survivaltricks]

[he can't help it. he huffs a laugh]

Why not? Too abstract for you?

[bowtiedbones]

It's all dumb thought exercises! It's a bunch of old farts feeling smart because they can pretend to have the object permanence of a toddler. "Does the moon exist if nobody's looking at it?" Like, really??

[survivaltricks]

[he. he can't help himself. it's his stupid sense of humor, but--]

Does it, though?

[bowtiedbones]

Of course it does! There's tides recorded in the fossil record! It's egocentric nonsense to act like some stuffy modern nerd's attention can vanish anything.

[survivaltricks]

[he huffs a laugh, amused by the vehemence of her response]

Well, then that is that.

[bowtiedbones]

[nods her tiny lizard head. FACTS!!]

I'm a girl of hard science.

[survivaltricks]

That's kind of the impression I got of you. Which is why "academic" was a good word for you guys to pick.

[bowtiedbones]

We also get sparks for teaching people things.

[survivaltricks]

. . . I wonder if Clover would've had more luck if we had picked "useless" as our word. . .

[bowtiedbones]

We would not have gotten that.

[survivaltricks]

No, but the object might've been something like a practical joke prop. Even if you wouldn't have linked it to "useless," there's no doubt that it probably would've been more easily linked to us than salt in a sugar shaker.

[bowtiedbones]

That was yours? I gave that to Jasmine.

[survivaltricks]

[sh. . . shrugs]

We gave them the ball gag.

[uh]

[bowtiedbones]

I kind of want to ask why, but I also super don't.

[survivaltricks]

Wasn't my idea.

[but he didn't argue with it, either]

[bowtiedbones]

We gave ours to Licorice.

[survivaltricks]

[SEE???? DON'T JUDGE CLOVER FOR SENDING IT TO JASMINE!!!]

I see. . . are they really that kind of team?

[bowtiedbones]

At least one of them is.

[survivaltricks]

Which one?

[he wants to know. for science]

[bowtiedbones]

That might be too gossipy to say.

[survivaltricks]

Who says no to gossip?

[seriously. who???]

[bowtiedbones]

You have to be careful with gossip!

[survivaltricks]

I'd only use it for good. I promise.

[bowtiedbones]

You have to know that sounds suspicious.

[survivaltricks]

[yes]

Me? Suspicious? I'd never.