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Who's gonna be breathing it?

Whoever has the misfortune of breaking the pinata!

Man, sounds like it's some kinda reverse pinata. The pinata you don't really wanna break.

The... atanip.

Danger pinata seems pretty useful, actually. Send it to people you don't like and just wait for the reaction.

Fill it with bees.

Ouch, nice. So. Glitter, bees...small legos?

Oh, man. Now we're really getting brutal.

Sometimes's you gotta hit 'em where it hurts.

Remind me never to get on your bad side.

Don't think you'll like it!

So...

[Then, casual]

...What you think happened to Disneyland?

...dunno.

You think we got it back?

...Dunno.

There was a lot of...everything.

...I could try another couple. See if I get lucky.

...You want? You don't gotta, since--yeah...

I mean... like I said. I been thinking about it lately. So maybe, like. Maybe now's a good time?

If you're ready.

Okay. Okay... yeah, sure.

Here goes.

[He takes a steadying breath, and then he puts in for three more memories.]

[In retrospect, he should have quit while he was ahead.]

[.........welp]

[Uh, don't mind him, kay?]

[Kind of minding???]

[Snakes an arm around his back and squeezes, not entirely for his benefit

That was, a lot, and she didn't even have to feel it]

[He leans in against her; he's trembling, a little, breathing not quite steady.]

[Pulls him in tight, a little unsteady herself. She doesn't know what to say...there isn't anything to say. Maybe just being present is enough for now.]

[Having her there is plenty. It helps, to know that she's here, and they're both in a city that's still standing, and the sky outside isn't black with monsters.]

[They are indeed safe in Hell, which is its own issues, but it's different in memories--in the real world, where stuff like that counts. She cuddles him in closer, to better feel his breath--so at least he can maybe feel her heartbeat--that they're at least kind of alive, kind of surviving, despite everything.]

Re: Sometime on Day 193

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