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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[explosivecombat]

You may be waiting a while; I've no intention of going if it can be avoided.

[doitrockapella]

Oh? I haven't scared you off, now, have I?

[explosivecombat]

The place is crawling with ghosts normally anyway, isn't it?

[doitrockapella]

...Oh. That's right.

Yes, it's most certainly haunted. It's also the town with the tower where that reporter supposedly disappeared earlier this year. That's part of the reason I went, was to climb it and see what came of it.

[explosivecombat]

Did you happen to find anything?

[doitrockapella]

An utterly disappointing lack of spooks, specters, and other Halloweenish folk.

...Up until I had that nightmare, but that could've been something else.

[explosivecombat]

Indeed; what did the nightmare consist of?

[doitrockapella]

...

Screaming?

[explosivecombat]

[...oh what fresh hell is this - ]

Screaming...?

What do you mean - surely there was more to it?

[doitrockapella]

There might've been? But that's the only thing I remember about it, really. Just...I woke up with that bad feeling, and thinking there'd been screaming, somehow.

[explosivecombat]

[are you shitting him rn]

Well, if that's all it was, then I stand by my initial assertion - you shouldn't let it trouble you too much.

[doitrockapella]

[Lullabies.]

It's a moot point, anyway. I'm well aware you're never going to give them back to me.

[explosivecombat]

[Yep...]

I'm not, no; they were never intended to be given to anyone in the first place, when I left.

[doitrockapella]

Intentional or not, it did make me feel a little better while you were gone. For what it's worth.

[explosivecombat]

[It takes him a moment to respond to that, simply because he hasn't the vaguest idea why she's even bothering to tell him that in the first place. It hardly matters to him, after all, especially since it wasn't intentional, as he's been saying; if she acknowledges that it wasn't, and he acknowledges that it wasn't, why should he care what the effect was? He didn't have anything to do with it, it doesn't really affect him in any meaningful sort of way, so why...

He replies eventually, simply because it's fairly obvious that he should give a damn even if he doesn't, and he makes a mental note to ask someone why later.]

Well, at least they accomplished that much; I still say you would have been left something better, had I known in advance that that was going to happen.

[doitrockapella]

Something better, or something I would've liked more? I have to imagine those stones are valuable to you.

[explosivecombat]

"Something better" in that it would have been more appropriate, you probably would have liked it better overall, and I wouldn't have ended up needing it to be returned.

[doitrockapella]

There's still time to make it up to me, you know.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, I'm aware of that.

[doitrockapella]

And I notice you haven't.

[explosivecombat]

Yet.

[doitrockapella]

Oh, come now, that answer's a little overtly villainous for your tastes, isn't it?

[explosivecombat]

Does it help if I promise that said gift won't involve the destruction of a major city?

[doitrockapella]

I have a feeling that the only time you'd do that for me — these days, at least — is when I wouldn't be around to see it, anyway.

[explosivecombat]

If you want complete honesty, I probably wouldn't.