text [some time before the end of the event]

[muscovy]

[Guess which temple Muscovy is currently in, tucked in a corner somewhere, using his backpack as a backrest and playing around with the new emoji app? It's not that he likes being in the temples, no matter which god_ess they belong to, but considering how things outside took a turn for the worse instead of for the better, he has decided on spending siren times inside - this time in Delight's temple. Which gave him time to waste.]

There are little pictures in the comms. Why?

[None of the comms that he had before had those. And also]

What do these mean? [He can figure out the others - people with different faces, and cats with different faces, hearts and a star. But those four are confusing.]


[ooc: If you'd rather approach him in person, that is fine, too!]

Comments

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[skelebro]

[Ah, geez, don't ask him to keep track of the days. He stopped doing that a long while ago.]

Can't've been longer than a month, I think. Sorta hard to tell with the days being all different here.

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[muscovy]

It is easier than on board of a ship in the dark between the stars when you're not in the oxygen gardens.

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[skelebro]

Sounds like you're speaking from experience.

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[muscovy]

There were enough people and food and it was warm and not very many bad things happened, so it was very nice. There just were no real days or seasons or weather and you couldn't go out because you would have died.

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[skelebro]

Heh. Sounds familiar. Not real different from here, is it?

Well, 'cept for the bad things. Those seem worryingly common here.

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[muscovy]

I haven't been here for long enough to compare the frequency yet. But at least we don't have to get into gooey pods each month while things get a bit broken around us, yes?

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[skelebro]

...yeah, that sounds like that'd be a real downer. There a particular explanation for that?

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[muscovy]

The ship jumped to a different place sometimes, and if you weren't inside a pod it would have been like jumping off a very high cliff for you. Maybe it wasn't supposed to do that originally, it was a bit broken.

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[skelebro]

[Sounds like...something superluminal thing. Interesting. An earlier version of himself might've claimed that such a thing couldn't be possible, but he's long since given up on denying implausibility.]

So, you like this better?

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[muscovy]

[He pauses to think about that, and then shakes his head.]

My mother and big bro don't remember me here, and mother is being very silly about being family still.

[skelebro]

How d'you mean, "silly"?

[That prompts the arching of a supraorbital ridge. Doesn't bode well.]

[muscovy]

She avoids me.

[That is very silly behaviour, in his opinion.]

[skelebro]

Ah.

[Not sure what to say to that, to be honest.]

Sorry, kid. You got any clue why?

[muscovy]

She can be very silly about having friends.

[That's the best that he has, really. It seems to be one of her issues with being in a friend-or-family relationship with other people that manifests there. He'll figure it out and fix it eventually, though.]

[skelebro]

["Silly." That's certainly a word for it.]

Well, I hope she comes 'round, yeah?

[muscovy]

She will eventually, because I will be working on it, yes? Because we are family and family doesn't leave or hate or avoid one another forever, only sometimes for a while.

[skelebro]

[Sans laughs a little at that. True enough. Family's all that family's got, after all. Or something like that.]

I wish ya luck, kid.

[muscovy]

Thank you.