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[ladybirdshit]

Leave the trauma forest behind and get a move on!

On to the coast! Ships! There's also a bridge! Hahah!

Which one are you gonna choose?

[ mission: once you've reached the port town discuss if you're taking the large manmade bridge or boarding a ship. it will be a two days' journey of anyway. ]

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[foodporn]

[trying not to laugh]

[thisbites]

[ scaring people just because he can?

generally enjoys this pastime. ]

[armedarchaeologist]

[awkward wave at derek.]

So-o, uh...

[don't steal my lunch money? no, talking to bo now.]

How, uh. How long have your people been on Earth? Or are you the only one?

[foodporn]

[you're unbelievable]

You're seriously still gonna try to ask questions after that?

[armedarchaeologist]

Oh, believe me, I've been glared at by a lot of scary-looking people in my time, I've kind of developed an immunity.

[and a lack of fear of death.]

Unless this is one of those personal things like Ninurta, which... I can respect. I promise.

[foodporn]

No, it's not really- I don't really care. About the whole fae thing. I mean I do, since I am, but all their politics, and the secrecy, and. The whole eating people thing. You could have all the state secrets for all I care, but I just don't want to talk about them.

[them being the fae, not the secrets. for both reasons that it reminds her of home and that they kind of make her sick sometimes.]

[armedarchaeologist]

Wait, that wasn't a joke?

[he thought the eating people thing was, you know, colorful hyperbole.]

[brain catches up to mouth and he holds his hands up in surrender.]

Right. OK. I promise I'll restrain my ethnographic urges.

[foodporn]

You mean you can actually be quiet about something?

[pats his shoulder. good man.]

It's for the best.

[armedarchaeologist]

I'm sorry, didn't this conversation start with you wondering why I wasn't talking?

[oh, that's. a little snippier than he meant to be.]

Sorry.

[foodporn]

[about something, not in general. defensive much. arches eyebrows at him like excuse you, yeah you better apologize.]

It's a different quiet. You were sad-quiet. Now you're you value your life-quiet.

[armedarchaeologist]

Yeah well I guess I'm a lot better at one of those than I am at the other.

[so what if it's a little bit of both. he and hel sat in awkward silence for a whole night, this is nothing. shoves his hands into his pockets.]

[probably he could bring up something else, but he really doesn't know what, his brain's too full of ninurta's trial and apparently new information is a no-go.]

[foodporn]

[presses lips together and watches him spiral back down into the depths of his sad deicideless despair. well she tried to cheer him up. gives herself a you tried star. they can be quiet for now. she'll just keep his nerdy quiet self company while they walk]