audience: cloud

[mygod]

Comments

[residentmerc]

Reports are fine.

[ ...why that, of all things, except cloud tilts his head and frowns a little and decides to go with it because actually that was less embarrassing than being in love with aventurine, and he's curious how famine will reply to a straightforward answer to something he assumes is meant to embarrass him: ]

Their paws are... really sensitive. Friend of mine said so, but it was a lot different feeling it myself.

[mygod]

[ well

that actually gets famine to laugh ]

Oh? You didn't seem like the type to let people touch your paw pads.

[residentmerc]

I'm not. Turns out people are really bad at understanding dogs.

[ he didn't lift his paw for that!!! but they took it as that!! he suffered. ]

[mygod]

Even with your translator? I suppose that is why the mutt always complains about it.

[residentmerc]

Think that thing's possessed.

[ by funnies. ]

[mygod]

It certainly took on a personality of its own when you had it.

[residentmerc]

More of that village magic, you think?

[ he is being sarcastic. but what if ]

[mygod]

I'd accredit it more to your shining personality simply exploding out of the canine form.

[residentmerc]

Even though it sure as hell wasn't saying what I wanted it to? [ but actually, ok--] I make that much of an impression when you guys are watching?

[ stop looking at his personality. he knows its bad he cultivated it this way ]

[mygod]

[ laughs ]

You and the gambler were an incredible source of entertainment for those days, but I assure you you're in good company.

[ good company of clowns ]

[residentmerc]

[ ..even though the guy's dead... ]

Pass on revisiting that one. [ leave him alone!!! ] You take the "seeing" part seriously, huh.

[mygod]

Only when it proves amusing.

Otherwise, I do spend most of my time investigating ways on getting you out of here so I no longer have to see any of you at all.

[residentmerc]

Feeling's mutual. Guessing you haven't made any progress?

[mygod]

[ they pause, thoughtful ]

... steps forward and steps back.

After what happened to Death, it was a larger step back.

[residentmerc]

... Harder to look into things with one less member?

[ and also like emotional damage or whatever ]

[mygod]

Yes. And they suspect the three of us more now, so we need to exercise a higher level of caution.

[residentmerc]

That's about what I expected. [ hmm ] Kind of figured you guys would try to stay clear of us for a few days to let shit die down, to be honest.

[mygod]

The veil goes up when we speak to you in large groups, which is the most suspicious. Otherwise, I do not believe they have all the time in the world to monitor us in every interaction...

It is also suspicious for us to change behavior entirely if we were never doing anything wrong.

[residentmerc]

So stuff like that trial and our first meeting?

[ was it up for halloween... was it ]

[mygod]

And the candy.

[ yea it was ]

[residentmerc]

.......

You put it up for that...?

[ im not saying he is judging but also ]

[mygod]

You were all literally being given treats.

[residentmerc]

Yeah, no one made you do that.

[ sorry he was too busy making out with aventurine to think about things gosh ]

[mygod]

Pesto was excited about it, and Death had a soft spot for holidays.

[residentmerc]

[ damn. now he is dead so he can't even make fun of the thing. ]

... Still kind of a weird holiday.