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Oh.

[...]

Well - that answer probably made it clear, but yes.

Why?

[There is mostly just a little blip of curiosity, though it's pretty mild.]

I was possessed.

[the weak binch option.......]

[Disappointing but not surprised...]

Fate seems to enjoy bloodying your hands.

I'm not going to be worried about my luck over something like this.

[at least i didn't get stabbed to death with a lava lamp...]

[JUST SQUINTING AT HIM.]

What is a lava lamp.

That was by far the least important part of what I said.

It's the only part that I don't understand. I need to know what a lava lamp is to judge the type of foul luck it would take to be stabbed to death by one.

It's like - I don't know how to describe it. I'd say I'd show you after this but we're going to be all sore afterwards if I'm remembering right. Anyways, the important part you need to know is that it was, like, jagged broken glass.

Being sore isn't much of an issue.

[FOR HIM AT LEAST but he just squints a little.]

Is there something particularly painful or bizarre about the glass? That's a fairly normal way to die.

[IS IT.]

So if you had to pick a way to die, one of the ways you would find acceptable would be to get stabbed in the throat with broken glass?

Compared to the myriad of idiotic ways we've seen people die here, you wouldn't find being stabbed in the throat with broken glass acceptable? You could be compacted into a cube of trash. You could be accidentally trampled by a horse. You could be eaten by fish. You could be mistaken for a doppelganger-creating octopus and strangled by a cursed person.

[dumb ways to die playing in the background]

...Okay, point taken, but it still wouldn't be my first choice.

[i hate agreeing with him...]

[Amused...]

It wouldn't be mine, either. I didn't mind the way I went; I'd choose that over the execution.

Didn't you get your head caved in...?

From hitting the ground, yes. Fall from that high up and it's not really much of anything on the way out.

Well, that's going to be lucky in about five minutes...

Falling to death is an old friend by now.

[A SIGH.]

Though the soreness will be an irritant...

I thought you said it wasn't a problem a little bit ago.

It won't be. It's just annoying compared to dying and waking up entirely fine. [...] By a definition.

I guess. Feels like getting off pretty light, though, yeah.

Returning to the average world in which death is typically permanent must be a troubling adjustment for some to make.

But not for you?

Two months is a bare drop in a river for me. Hardly enough time to readjust my expectations of something as fundamental as mortality as it functions in my own world. Do you find it a difficult adjustment?

Not really, no, but - it always feels big for me to see other people hurt, even if they come back.

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