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[malignstar]

Who: Felix & Thyme
When: Day 57, evening
Where: Thyme

Felix hasn't been spending much time in the carriage since their arrival on the new Prism. But he's here tonight in the living room, bent over a large sketchpad and sketching extremely slowly (and not with great talent). He's no artist but it's fairly obvious that his subject is a young woman with hair down to her waist. His own hair has been done up in a messy bun to keep it out of his face while he works.

Next to him on the couch is a white box secured with a Thyme green ribbon.

Should anyone pass by, he'll half-raise his gaze in acknowledgement.

"So, uh, we need have a talk..."

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[bowtiedbones]

[on her way back in from the Library, a couple notebooks under her arm]

What's up?

[malignstar]

Actually, I got something for you first.

[ He picks up the box to offer it to her. ]

Special delivery from 80H.

[bowtiedbones]

[blinks and takes it]

Did she come by?

[malignstar]

[ He gives his head a slight shake. ]

Nah, I asked for it a while back. After she told me about her hidden talent.

[bowtiedbones]

Wait so it's from you?

[malignstar]

Kind of? I mean, it's for Thyme really. But you're sort of... the head.

[bowtiedbones]

Oh gosh, no I'm not.

[opening it though]

[malignstar]

[ Look he's trying to come up with a way to not tell her she's the last of the original Thyme...

Also when she opens it, she'll find two kinds of Fang figures, one that is far more realistic and is about 8 inches, with seamless points of articulation. The other is a cute plush. ]

[bowtiedbones]

—Oh! Oh it's Fang...!

[drops the lid of the box to cover her mouth, tears welling up almost immediately]

[malignstar]

[ Tbf, he did have the same reaction

Gets up so he can brush a hand over her arm ]

Yeah. I thought maybe it could be a way of keeping him with us. And telling other Thyme about him.

[bowtiedbones]

It's very cute. We can keep them next to the model spaceship.

[wontforbidtherain]

"About?"

[malignstar]

[ Goes back to working on his picture, gaze very much away from her ]

Well, SF kind of helped me figure something out...

[wontforbidtherain]

Ess Eff?

[malignstar]

Sorry, Solar Flare. She apparently talked to... another me. Only he's not me. He's someone else. It was kind of confusing.

[wontforbidtherain]

I think I've spoken to him as well. I wasn't sure, and then I didn't know how to bring it up.

[malignstar]

What? How did you talk to him?

[wontforbidtherain]

He takes over your body sometimes. I don't know; I don't know how it happens.

Your eyes change.

[malignstar]

[ Running his fingers roughly through his hair ]

... She said it's not another personality. It's... another person entirely. Someone's hijacking my body. And I think he's been here for a while...

[wontforbidtherain]

I have some memories of body swaps. It's considered forbidden magic where I'm from. Well, except by a species that demands the rest of us keep it forbidden.

[Cat is a bit sarcastic about that]

But it was a swap, not an overwrite. What happens to your mind when the other one is running your body?

[malignstar]

I don't remember it...

[dereban]

[ is a Thyme passing by and uh-- ]

Should I be worried because this sounds like A Talk.

[malignstar]

Depends on what you mean by a talk. I left my shotgun in my room.

[dereban]

Like, you know.

Something serious. . .? Birds and the bees, things like that.

[ but then her incredulous, confused look is soon replaced with something a little more tense ]

You left what-- oi. Is that really something you just tell a girl?

[malignstar]

That was a joke. The whole serious talk tropes.

[ Goes back to sketching ]

Anyway, it is actually serious. I learned something about myself the other day.