text; 3/11, evening

[phoenix_temple]

What do you think the percentage chance is that some of us are going to wind up in government basements getting experimented on?

I really want to know, I have to place my bets here and decide if I'm going to tell my mom about all this.

[There is one other thing she has to do though, and it's very important.

Very, very important.]

[Private to Marina; Audio]

I wanted to ask you a question. Can you meet me at [cafe] tonight?

Comments

[phoenix_temple]

Your brain cells will eventually die over time, you know.

[anequal]

Cells are dying and coming back to life all the time. I'll last a few more decades.

[phoenix_temple]

You promised me a hundred more decades I thought.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

I think people change gradually rather than suddenly.

Re: [Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

But if she understands what I'm saying and yet continues to do the awful things she does--!

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Have you ever known and even accepted something on a logical level, but it's taken your feelings a little longer to catch up? I think it's like that.

[Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

I don't make people suffer for my moral inadequacies. [You do, Anais, you just don't realize it.]

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Are you claiming you have no moral inadequacies?

Re: [Audio]

[phoenix_temple]

I'm saying I don't make anyone deal with the numerous moral inadequacies I do have. I, for example, do my best to not trash talk people who have not trash talked me on the network. And I do my best to avoid people in general so they don't have to deal with it unless they're comfortable with it.

[anequal]

Those I'm gonna use magic for.

[phoenix_temple]

... Do you have any magic?

[anequal]

[He sings a quiet chorus of "I've got the magic in me"]

[phoenix_temple]

[She nudges him.]

[publicity]

oh don't say that!!! there can't be more what more could they have???

[anequal]

[He pokes her side.]

[phoenix_temple]

Just keep your brain cells alive.

[phoenix_temple]

Well so long as we still have Echoes there's always going to be something right? tbh I prefer aliens to people...

[anequal]

And what will happen if my other cells kick the bucket?

[phoenix_temple]

Minimal dying cells okay? [She leans over to kiss him.] I'll find a way to keep you healthy. Even if I have to invent a spell for it.

[neopianangst]

Which versions of us, though...

[phoenix_temple]

Us. These versions. The ones that never asked for any of this. The other ones had their time to be screwed.

[anequal]

Please do not make me into a Frankenstein's monster.

[phoenix_temple]

I will try my best. I like you as you are.

[anequal]

And I like you, too. Will you like me better if I napped right now?

[phoenix_temple]

I will like you much better.