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[hot_mess_express]

Who: You
When: Day 52, morning
Where: Anywhere

[Of course there's still the flowers that, when stepped on, enhance or dull a sense, and there are still some chocolates in the lounge if you missed them or want more.

But this morning dawns with an infestation of bats.

That is, tiny tiny clockwork bats that get in your hair and coffee and make tiny tiny clockwork bat screeches.

Should you encounter a clockwork bat, and they're pretty hard to dodge, the next person you talk to will... Well, see one of your memories.

Otherwise it seems like a pretty typical morning, and the bats will be gone by afternoon.]

Comments

[awakenerd]

[Catching her!]

Steady there. I don't think they'll hurt you.

[dereban]

Ah--

[ oh. that sure is a familiar voice and face, even if he looks a little older. ]

I was mostly surprised that there were bats, though. Isn't it off season? It's supposed to be Christmas, not Halloween.

[ although what Rean gets to deal with memory-wise is.

this stupid shenanigans ( cw: vore/cannibalism + bondage mentions )

welp. ]

[awakenerd]

[He'd carry on the conversation but uh.

He's kind of spacing out as he relieves her memory.

What in the actual fuck.]

[dereban]

[ she just raises a brow for a second, curious ]

. . . ?

[awakenerd]

[Well that sure happened. He carefully lets go, folding his arms as he processes that.]

I think I just saw a memory of yours.

[dereban]

[ it sure did!

but that's when Inaba finds herself frowning because memory share is definitely new to her but she's also just going 'hm' over it ]

. . . dare I ask which one?

[awakenerd]

Not a pleasant one.

[But also what the fuck was that. He'll tell her even if it's uncomfortable, she absolutely deserves to know what part of her past he saw, just... how to carefully address it without being graphic?]

It involved someone who looked a lot like me only as a spider, and you... dying.

[dereban]

[ ......... oh.

oh.

well, that's. hm. ]

Yeah, that's definitely something that happened. Spider possession's a bitch, let me tell you.

[awakenerd]

What exactly... was going on there, If I can ask?

[dereban]

Mur. . . . der?

[ that's very eloquent, Inaba. ]

[awakenerd]

Yeah I uh, got that part. And that you were all in some kind of game. But that doesn't really cover much.

I won't pry if you'd rather not talk about it though.

[dereban]

It's more like. . . it's a long, complicated story?

[ she laughs a little awkwardly ]

And some of it is kind of. [ hand gestures ] Unbelievable.

[awakenerd]

We're on a magic space train trying to save the universe with the power of friendship. I think I can suspend my disbelief.

[dereban]

. . . so would you believe me that I was in a world before this where I was considered as a 'fictional' character?

[ just spoken flatly, but she doesn't seem to necessarily be lying ]

[awakenerd]

I don't see why to doubt you. That sounds like a pretty strange experience though.

[dereban]

It was definitely weird, for sure. Not to mention that the tsunderegumo was the one possessing him.

[awakenerd]

Can you tell me a bit more about the situation?

[dereban]

Do you want the condensed version or the let me sit down and talk my ass off for 84 years version?

[awakenerd]

I'm always for listening to a long story.

[dereban]

Well. . . [ she doesn't exactly mind talking about it, but it's a little awkward, honestly. ] Maybe we'll have to do it over drinks and a seat somewhere.

[awakenerd]

Sounds like a date to me.

[dereban]

[ flatly: ]

You know you're going to break a lot of people's hearts with that misunderstanding that way.

1/2

[awakenerd]

[awakenerd]

I meant... As a figure of speech. Sorry.

Sitting together and talking over drinks sounds nice though.

[dereban]

[ and that's when she laughs a little under her breath, amused ]

Pfft, I knew that. You don't happen to know a good place for both?