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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

[schrodingerscockroach]

I guess everything is lively right now.

[Give the most self indulgent fucked up memory Rean, you know you want too.]

[awakenerd]

Yeah. We have so many new people, it's exciting.

[You, too, can experience the joys of being a living weapon. You probably already know the feeling.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

It is. We got an overly earnest, polite one on Clover.

[And he's smiling a bit, though exhaustion because you know, he can talk about cute new teammate and talk to Rean and everything is fin-]

[Except that hits and his face just goes stone cold BLANK.]

[awakenerd]

Yeah? I'd like to meet them.

[Uh. That's a reaction though.]

Dusk?

[schrodingerscockroach]

....

[Breathes deep.]

[Let's it out.]

How....vague ARE your memories?

[DID YOU LIE.]

[awakenerd]

Some more and some less than others. Some scenes are clear, some are just impressions.

[The real vagueness was Rean's description all along. Also he's definitely been misleadingly casual about it if nothing else.]

Why, did you see one?

[schrodingerscockroach]

And what memories are the clear ones.

Yeah. I'd guess it's the bats, there's usually a cause for things like that.

[And he's just poker facing HARD.]

[awakenerd]

There's a few. I've lived a pretty long life. I have one where one of my Awakeners convinced a cat to help her solve a robbery and then got the whole local cat population to corner the culprits.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He would ask many questions about that normally because CATS.]

[But]

[Priorities.] That would be an awfully nice memory.

What else?

[awakenerd]

There's a few. Why not just tell me what you saw?

[schrodingerscockroach]

I have someone for my 'shoot on sight' list.

[SO HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW REAN THAT MIGHT GO ON THAT LIST.]

[awakenerd]

[That doesn't immediately narrow it down, hm.]

I'm afraid you're going to have to be more specific. But I get it, it wasn't pleasant. Sorry about that.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[YEAH. He is somehow not surprised.]

Why are you apologizing?

[awakenerd]

Because whatever you experienced... Wasn't something you had to. No one wants a friend witnessed something bad, and if they do, it's normal to be sympathetic, isn't it?

And at least for me, knowing you've seen something not great from my past, I'm sorry in principle.

[schrodingerscockroach]

You shouldn't be. You didn't do anything wrong.

You did nothing wrong at all.

[awakenerd]

I've definitely done a few things wrong, Dusk.

[schrodingerscockroach]

You've done things wrong in your life doesn't mean you're always guilty when bad things happen. Especially when they weren't in your control.