anise [spacecoast]

[verminous]

anise can do anything she wants forever

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[verminous]

...yeah. Yeah, I'm awake.

[hi anise. his voice is rough, a bit hoarse, but the wound on his throat is healed enough not to look like it'll reopen easily.]

Hi, Anise.

[sexyasmieu]

Do you need anything? I can make a run to grab something to eat or drink... um, if you can...?

[ a questioning look at the throat wound... ]

[verminous]

Should be able to... didn't we already have lunch a while ago though?

[sexyasmieu]

Uh... I don't think so. Did we?

[verminous]

Sure we did. With Charles and Arthur, remember? We were talking about how the entrance exams went?

[sexyasmieu]

Uh... sure.

Remind me what those exams were for, again?

[verminous]

For university! C'mon, Anise.

[sexyasmieu]

Oh! Wow...

[ picturing herself as a fancy academic! cool... ]

...... So how did it go?

[verminous]

...pretty bad...

I think I did okay on one of 'em?

[sexyasmieu]

So then your university application...

[ concerned! ... and then she reconsiders. ]

--Um, wait, more importantly, how did you go from writing tests and having lunch to totally getting thrashed!?

[verminous]

[looking up at her like he has completely not considered this]

...I don't... know.

[sexyasmieu]

How do you... not know.

What do you remember after lunch?

[verminous]

I don't know! Everything was fine! We had swim team practice like always!

[sexyasmieu]

Swim team??

[ nationasl??? ]

... Did anything happen during practice?

[verminous]

Not really. I mean, we already only got second at nationals, so I'm not sure why... we're still...

[....

auuuuuugh.]

Haaaaah, come on, can I keep my head on straight for five minutes-?

[sexyasmieu]

[ nationasl........ ]

What's wrong?

[verminous]

I keep-- thinking I'm in school like that, I can't shake it all the way off.

[he's back, apparently.]

[sexyasmieu]

... Oh, you're back. Phew... I was a little worried.

Can you remember it more clearly now?

[verminous]

Yeah. Yeah, the school part was all fake. Sure believed it when we were there, though.

[sexyasmieu]

[ nodding. it was definitely fake. ]

So was there another part?

[verminous]

Whenever I fell asleep-- I was in another different life. The one all the injuries came from.

[there's why his school au self has no clue.]

[sexyasmieu]

Oh... wow.

[ that sounds nuts, but it makes more sense than anything he was saying until now. ]

What happened then?

[verminous]

...that guy died. Had a whole weird afterlife experience, but at least we weren't separated by then.

[sexyasmieu]

"That guy"...?

[verminous]

That version of me, I guess I should say. Usually it's easier to talk about them like different people, it gets confusing if you keep saying 'me'...