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[agleam]

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[doublefists]

[ she pauses, glancing up at him, and then: ]

Oh - hey. I don't mind. You can hang out, I'm fine.

[agleam]

You sure? You definitely don't look fine.

[trying to joke a little, hoping that'll put her more at ease.]

[doublefists]

[ makes a face at him, goodnaturedly. ]

I look good for a piece of swiss cheese. [ the implications that swiss exists in arcane is raised by this sentence but i have too many tags to care about this ]

[agleam]

...Hopefully you feel better soon.

[more genuinely, and then after a pause]

You don't have to tell me what happened, but I'll listen if you want to.

[doublefists]

I really don't care.

[ she says, bluntly. not meanly, just... tired. it's sweet that he's being so nice to her, and she appreciates it, but she doesn't think it's worth it to tiptoe around the bad. ]

If you want to hear about it I can tell you. It's not going to upset me to do it.

[agleam]

If it's alright, then, I'd like to hear.

[mostly so he can fuss more effectively but it's fine]

[doublefists]

We got sent to a camp for bad kids. Something about God saving us.

[agleam]

But you got hurt there instead...?

[doublefists]

Sort of.

[ she rubs at her neck. ]

I guess we were supposed to spend a night in a cabin to keep an eye out for the devil. But I don't know what we were supposed to do to stop it. And it ended up we didn't want to, anyway.

[agleam]

You - didn't want to stop the devil?

[a little surprised, but not judgmental.]

[doublefists]

Nah. He was better than God.

He said - God only had room for two of us. But the devil had room for all three.

[agleam]

...Sounds like god needs to get his act together.

[sympathetic]

[doublefists]

[ shrug.

winces. ow. ]

Doesn't matter, he's quiet now.

[agleam]

[pausing for a moment]

If he hurt you, that matters.

[doublefists]

Sure, but what am I going to do about it now? It wasn't real.

[agleam]

Sometimes things that you can't do anything about anymore still hurt, though. I don't think it's a bad thing to acknowledge that.

[doublefists]

[ he is trying so hard to get her to be like it's okay to have feelings and she's resisting him at every single turn ]

Okay. Acknowledged. Doesn't really change anything.

[agleam]

Maybe not, but...

[pauses for a moment before deciding to let it go for now]

Sorry - you've probably had a pretty long day, huh?

[doublefists]

[ a pause, and then: ]

... Yeah, a little. Sorry. [ she knows she's being a brat. ]

[agleam]

You don't have anything to apologize for, seriously.

...Can I get you anything? Are you hungry at all?

[doublefists]

Eating is pretty much the last thing I want to do.

[ but. ]

Haven't all day, though. [ ... ] What I want is to get drunk.

[agleam]

[cyoa goers have a permit for most things but also]

You sure that's a good idea, tonight...?

[doublefists]

Probably not.

[ dryly. ]

[agleam]

Pretty stupid that these are on Thursdays.

[pauses and then realizes]

Someone warned you about these in time, right?

[doublefists]

About - what, the trips?