☀ VOICE

[errandry]

Theeeey'll really make anything disappear, huh. ... Guess this isn't the greatest time for asking stuff, but—anybody gotten stuff back from the sand so far?

[ a beat. some rustling as he hits the button to end the recording. before it quite finishes — ]

That was my fucking hat...!

Comments

[undespairing]

That's a lot of denial!

[errandry]

Yeah, and it's totally deserved. Nobody should get used to glass everywhere.

[undespairing]

Who said that? I said it'd turn to normal eventually.

[errandry]

... what, like turn all the way back...?

[undespairing]

Or something.

[errandry]

... that'd be letting us off pretty easy.

[undespairing]

Would it really?

[errandry]

Well, yeah—we'd be getting everything back. And it'd be normal again—without us even having to fight anything except the monsters.

That doesn't sound real.

[undespairing]

Well if you want you could think of your whole adventure in this city as a dream. It's strange enough to be one.

Pain doesn't wake you up though, apparently.

[errandry]

Not that kind of real—! I dunno, it doesn't sound like something that could actually happen. When you lose something, you lose it. That's just how things work.

[undespairing]

That's true. Like how lost teeth never grow back! Or how scars never go back to being perfectly unblemished skin. I think I'll still hold out hope for getting things back though, just in case.

[errandry]

[ laughs a little after a moment, a low and startled sound. ]

... still not scared, huh.

[undespairing]

Scared?...Even if I was, there's not much point in dwelling on it. [he chuckles a little.]

[errandry]

Like people do that on purpose...

[undespairing]

Hey, we're safe for now, right? It'll work out! Don't worry.

[errandry]

'Cause there's no point in it, right?

[undespairing]

Exactly!

[errandry]

Sounds pretty easy when you put it like that.

[undespairing]

Well if you think it's difficult it'll only be more so, right? I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere once.

[errandry]

Guess that makes sense... doesn't make it easier to stop, though.

[undespairing]

Maybe a distraction would help?

1/2

[errandry]

[ kind of. a laugh. half-laughter everywhere, and none of it really solid. ]

I dunno if I oughta be distracted right now.

[errandry]

Maybe once we—get out of here, though.

[undespairing]

Sure. There'll be all sorts of distractions once we're out. Fun ones.