[ oh i'm so sorry but her expression going out of focus immediately makes him tense up after today. but he tries to relax, focusing on her and taking a breath. okay. sure. one more kick in the dick on this fine sunday. nice. ]
I'm gonna kill whoever put that idea in your head, dude. [ bold words for a dumbass who tried to crawl into an electrified lake earlier, but he's annoyed. ] You were always invited to come home with us. We've talked about this a few times. And even if I hadn't brought it up for some reason before, why wouldn't I still say it's true?
You...wanted to go be a pirate with Ace, and you weren't sure about coming the first time I asked, so when we talked Thursday it...I thought you had decided.
Are too. [ also instinctively? you're both stupid, how about that. but he scrunches his eyebrows together as he tries to puzzle it out. ]
It's like...just about what's happening when we leave here. [ hold on. let's do a test. ] What do you think is going to happen when we get out of this place? For you.
I don't know, I assumed I was going to go back to where I came with Saya. [...] I didn't want to just, like, invite myself to go somewhere. I'm sick of being in places where I'm not wanted.
[ the thing he's not telling her is that this is hurting his feelings and he's just going to decide she's either cursed or she's really trying to let him off easy which is also fine. so he sighs at that. ]
...okay. Well...offer's there if you want it. It'll be there at the end of the week, too.
I don't know how many other ways to say you're so important to me. [ listen. after today he literally doesn't have enough energy to be embarrassed so let's just throw everything out on the floor for everybody to look at. ]
Don't be. I get it. [ he isn't going to dive into it, but he thinks maybe it's a thing about not being used to people caring still, so the natural reflex is to assume they don't care as much as you might. ] It's whatever you decide. And it doesn't have to be right now anyway, especially if you want to talk to Saya first.
I asked her if she wanted to come with me somewhere. I think I... I asked if... [nope. that memory is gone. she shakes her head, frustrated.]
I just don't want her to have to go back to where she came from, because it sucks, and she said yeah, she'd go with me anywhere. But she - she might not look the way she does now when we leave, so.
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...what do you remember about Thursday?
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[a pause.] By the fire, we were by the fire, but we didn't talk about...
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No. But it doesn't matter, I know we didn't talk about me going back with you. Nobody has talked to me about going back with them.
[that seems incorrect, maybe, but she seems like she believes it?]
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You...wanted to go be a pirate with Ace, and you weren't sure about coming the first time I asked, so when we talked Thursday it...I thought you had decided.
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A few times? Since when? [apparently she cannot remember a single one of those times.] What...
[her eyes go a bit unfocused again.] You and Will and Temenos...
[:aaaaa:]
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Hey. Nimona. Focus.
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I don't remember. [...] Temenos said he wouldn't lie about this sort of thing either. I - I don't think either of you would, but I can't...
[a beat.] It didn't happen.
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It happened. You might not remember right now, but it happened. If I said it and Will said it and Temenos said it, why would it not be real?
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he should headbutt her anyway though]
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he does flick her in the forehead though. hellloooooooo. ]
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... What - why'd you flick me? Stop.
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she pauses, though.] ... I don't know? You keep saying stuff and I can't really... it's like I don't hear it.
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It's like...just about what's happening when we leave here. [ hold on. let's do a test. ] What do you think is going to happen when we get out of this place? For you.
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I don't know, I assumed I was going to go back to where I came with Saya. [...] I didn't want to just, like, invite myself to go somewhere. I'm sick of being in places where I'm not wanted.
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he's like. not sure how to process that right now. so it takes him a few minutes of staring at her tiredly. ]
And you just forgot I'd said you could come with us. And it sounds like Temenos offered you the same, too.
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[poor nico's soup brain]
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...okay. Well...offer's there if you want it. It'll be there at the end of the week, too.
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there's a pause, and then:]
... I do want to. I just didn't know that you wanted me to. [she sounds kind of embarrassed.]
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... Sorry. [she knows he cares. she is the cocoa puff, she's shame.]
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I just don't want her to have to go back to where she came from, because it sucks, and she said yeah, she'd go with me anywhere. But she - she might not look the way she does now when we leave, so.
[she rubs her face, like she has a headache.]
I don't want to go back to my world. At all.
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[ he shifts to lay back down again. ]
...have you seen what she looks like?
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