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[forthebothofus]

One year gone.

[One year since she found herself in Holloway's Keep. Or thereabout.]

I don't know whether to be happy or depressed about this.

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

depre22ed. or pii22ed off. maybe both.

[abstinentzombie]

Has it seriously been that fucking long?

[Audio]

[helluvachin]

I don't know about anyone else but, I'm kind of happy with the way things turned out.

[Wonder why.]

[forthebothofus]

Depressed for the time, yeah, but I've actually been pretty happy here.

Then again, back home I'm dead.

[forthebothofus]

For me at least.

How long is it for you?

[Audio]

[forthebothofus]

Yeah.

[Welp, now she's smiling at her journal.]

I gotta agree with that. Still, a year is a long time to be in one place. It feels... weird.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii gue22 beiing here ii2 better than not exii2tiing, but iit 2tiill 2uck2.

[Audio]

[helluvachin]

I'm glad you do.

[People can complain about this place all they want, but he found the most important person to him here.]

You'll get used to it, as long as we're here anyway. Once we leave we can start wandering around again.

[abstinentzombie]

A year... and a half. Before I ended up here I got dragged to magical jungle land and they wanted us to fight monsters for them. That was around six months.

[forthebothofus]

Hold on, what? You've been taken from wherever you're from before?

[She's heard talk of a boat, but this is kind of new.]

[forthebothofus]

[She makes an amused sound.]

Yeah, it does have some moments of suck. It's not too bad for me.

[Sorry Sollux. Abeni's happy.]

I... don't know if I want to leave.

[Audio]

[forthebothofus]

But where to go?

[And will she still be around if they leave here?]

[Audio]

[helluvachin]

Anywhere. Everywhere. It doesn't really matter to me. As long as I'm with you I can call it home.

[Cheesy yes, but Zachariah is just a cheesy kind of guy.]

[abstinentzombie]

I have, yeah. Over there we lived in giant vegetables and everyone was given a huge rat as a pet.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

*Its alright, he's dealt with this before.*

ju2t becau2e you were dead or becau2e your world 2ucked? what iif the optiion wa2 two go 2omewhere OTHER than there or here, would you 2tay then?

[Audio]

[forthebothofus]

[Hey, it gets a smile.]

I like the sound of that.

[She's just terrified she'll disappear if she ever leaves this place.]

[forthebothofus]

Both, really. The place was bad but I knew where I fit in and how it worked. Coming here changed that but I know what I'm doing again. As much as I can, anyway.

[She shrugs.]

I dunno if somewhere else would work for me. I don't know why I came back or if this place has anything to do with it.

[forthebothofus]

...

You're fucking kidding, right?

[KLOE THAT'S JUST CRAZYTALK]

Here I was thinking this place was weird.

[Audio]

[helluvachin]

[If that's the case then he'll just stay with her here, forever.]

It does sound nice doesn't it?

[abstinentzombie]

I'm not even fucking kidding. I promise.

[Snerk.]

[Audio]

[forthebothofus]

Yeah...

[Dammit Zachariah stop making her smile.]

Hey, where are you now?

[So she can come bother.]

[forthebothofus]

[She can't not laugh at that.]

What kind of vegetable?

[thii2ii22tupiid]

there are other place2 wiith the power two briing back the dead. but 2iince you're aliive NOW you miight not need any of that.

[abstinentzombie]

An artichoke.

[Audio]

[helluvachin]

[No never, making her smile is his most important job these days.]

I'm fooling around at the carpentry house right now. Trying to see if there's anything here that can help us with our lack of furniture.

[forthebothofus]

...What places?

[Consider her interest piqued.]

[forthebothofus]

Nope.

You're bullshitting.

[Audio]

[forthebothofus]

Prepare for a visitor.

[Cause she's not far off. In fact, she's walking through the door and quietly moving up to snake her arms around his waist.]

[Audio]

[helluvachin]

[Inside, he really is just fooling around, shuffling things about the carpentry house and looking for anything useful they don't already have.

Normally something like that would send him springing out of his skin and into attack mode, but he knows her touch by now. Instantly he relaxes and turns his head to smile at her.]

Hi there beautiful.

[thii2ii22tupiid]

my uniiver2e diid, at lea2t, ii've heard of other2 but not 2eem them iin actiion.

[abstinentzombie]

No, I'm serious! Damn it, I think I'm the only person left from there, but it's the truth I swear.