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[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, Nighttime
Where: The clearing, now no longer a beach

[ The beach fades away, leaving everyone back in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of the clearing and their-- beloved?-- train. There are some new stars in the sky, twinkling in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple, senna terracotta, jasmine blue, and clover pink.

The sound of a giggle fills the air and leaves behind bubbles-- touching one will give the uncontrollable urge to hug the nearest person. They will persist throughout the night. ]

Comments

[voreaciously]

[have a VERY NICE, VERY WARM HUG that she does not seem capable of doing.]

[malignstar]

[ WHAT IS GOING ON? ]

80H?

[voreaciously]

[she lets him go as though burned.] My apologies!

[malignstar]

Wait, don't apologize. I just really wasn't expecting it, given how you were feeling earlier.

[voreaciously]

I did not mean to do that!

[malignstar]

It's okay. We'll just forget it happened.

[voreaciously]

Ah...?

[she's confused because that's absolutely what she would do but it sounds to good to be true to hear it come from someone else.]

Pardon?

[malignstar]

I mean, if it wasn't on purpose, it doesn't really matter, right? We can just pretend nothing happened. I'd rather you hug me because you want to.

[voreaciously]

[wait. but that almost sounds like.]

You would want to hug me?

[ [x] doubt]

[malignstar]

Why wouldn't I want to hug you?

[voreaciously]

[she's an asshole, sir.]

I am not a good person.

[malignstar]

You're fine to me.

[voreaciously]

...I do not understand you.

[Any of you, she doesn't say.]

[malignstar]

What's to understand? It's just how I feel.

[voreaciously]

Your feelings are misplaced.

[malignstar]

I've heard that before.

[voreaciously]

Perhaps you should take heed.

[malignstar]

Do you want me to?

[voreaciously]

Yes. It would be better that way.

[malignstar]

Why though?

[voreaciously]

Does it matter?

[malignstar]

As the person who's being told to reassess his feelings, kind of.

[voreaciously]

I am not remotely a good person.

[malignstar]

Yeah? I'm pretty sure I have a violent alternative personality. I'm not here to judge. I just know you've always been a good person to me.

[voreaciously]

That is likely not your fault, though?

[she temporarily ignores the rest.]