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[nightsung]

In all your visions of the future or otherwise—

Do you ever see us leaving this place?

[ingeniar]

Kind of a weird question.

Yes. No. We're going to stay here. We're going to walk out. We're going to burn it down and most of us are going to die but we're going to get out. Half of us get out. Some of us get out, but they don't come back. We're going to do it wrong and collapse the whole thing like an egg breaking. You're going to go home and I'm going to stay here. You're going to forget me. We're going to be here together forever. We're already dead. I'm already dead.

[nightsung]

[ She might have teased him about weird questions with weirder answers, but it all slips between her ribs like a dull knife, lodging there. ]

I’ve forgotten everything that’s ever mattered to me.

I don’t want to forget you.

[ingeniar]

I think
I remember some of the stuff between the cracks. I remember too much.

[nightsung]

I would have offered you oblivion, once. To ease the pain.

Would you take it?

[ingeniar]

No. I have to go back. I've got to save the world.

[nightsung]

I suppose that’s what I’m meant to do, too.

Will you go back with Stephen?

[ingeniar]

I don't know. He's not mine. He's dead too.

[nightsung]

He’s yours here. And he’s mine.

He told me about another version of himself that died. Is that what you mean?

[ingeniar]

I only know one version. He turned into dust in front of me, after he saved my life.

[nightsung]

Neither of you are dust here. I won’t let you be.

[ingeniar]

We'll be meat before we're dust. Red on the table. Pulled apart by sharp teeth.

[nightsung]

Let me protect you.

I’ll pull whomever wants to make you meat apart first.

[ingeniar]

[ Kind of oscillating back and forth right now. What was he saying? ]

Yeah, that's not how it works.

[nightsung]

You haven’t been here long. The rules always change, and so do the games.

No one can say with certainty how anything works. So let me try.

[ingeniar]

People don't protect me. I protect everyone else. It's a whole thing.

[nightsung]

Do you expect me to be your damsel, then?

I could crush your head between my thighs like a melon, you know.

[ingeniar]

A strangely arousing statement.

[nightsung]

You can get distracted by my thighs squeezing your face after you answer my question.