🌙 greg

[naeddre]

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w2 thursday

[verminous]

[okay well charles maybe quietly dropped gregor the info that this was related to their world on the return so. since they all came back together.

he'll show up to check on her after a while, once she's had a chance to be healed and also to spend time with temenos etc.]

-hey. You, uh, holdin' up?

[naeddre]

[she's probably just sitting... somewhere, staring at her missing leg. she's healed! mostly. like, she's functional, but she's still pretty fucked up, just not dead.

she looks up slowly at him.]

... I had your arm. [OKAY WELL WAY TO OPEN WITH THE WORST PART]

[verminous]

You- what?

[YEAH THAT'S A HELL OF A THING TO OPEN WITH??

it makes him freeze up a little, bug antennae popping out of his head. what. she what?]

[naeddre]

I had it. I couldn't get rid of - I couldn't --

[a pause. calm down.]

Sorry.

[verminous]

N-no, don't, you don't have to be.

[she doesn't have to be sorry for apparently going through that.]

Charles said you guys were all in our City, but I didn't think...

[naeddre]

[a long pause, and then kind of like, hysterically:]

Why do your buses eat people.

[verminous]

-oh. You met Mephistopheles, huh...

[god. their vore bus.]

Most, uh, most buses aren't like that. If it helps.

[naeddre]

Not really.

[she leans back against the couch she's sitting on, eyes glazing over.]

I don't... I... [SO MUCH HAPPENED.]

[verminous]

-sorry. I've got a pretty good idea by now that ours is... comparatively, it's not anywhere anybody wants to go.

[the city is a ~*hellscape*~.]

Not gonna ask if you'd rather just-- try and forget about it.

[naeddre]

[a pause, and then:]

It doesn't matter. [nothing does!]

[verminous]

It matters if it was that hard on you all.

[naeddre]

... I can't do much else but keep going. This place will not stop for me.

[verminous]

-yeah. I know the feeling.

Can at least spare a little time to stop and breathe before you have to pick yourself up and go, though.

[naeddre]

[looks down at her leg.]

I suppose I have to.

[verminous]

...Should be able to replace it like Sidon did with his arm, at least.

[naeddre]

Mm. [...] Would've been nice if it had grown back.

[verminous]

It would, but-- being able to do that has its own downsides.

[as he's pretty sure she knows, if she had that arm.]

[naeddre]

[haha! ha!!!!!!]

... Yes. [a beat.] Did you kill who did that to you?

[verminous]

[haha...

he's silent for a few moments.]

...No.

[naeddre]

You should have.

[verminous]

I can't.

[naeddre]

[eyebrow raise. she doesn't ask, but she'll let him elaborate if he wants.]

[verminous]

That woman... I've never been able to go against her.

[a little shake of his head.]

Don't think I'd ever even get close to her, unless it was part of her plan.

[naeddre]

[okay but we killed her with a car, so obviously you just need to run her over really hard]

What woman?

[verminous]

Hermann.

[man if ONLY he could hit her with the vore bus.]

She's a Corp director now. Only ever got more powerful, after everything.