dear_mun | SPOILERS: Welcome to Night Vale

Yes. Such a sudden promotion! Your little town is just so...full of surprises.

For now.

If I'm Mayor then the first thing I'm doing is banning you.

[Phone rings. Hopefully it doesn't just go to voicemail!] Hello? Dana? I just saw you're Mayor on Tumblr? If that's correct then I am really looking forward to congratulating you in person!

Of course, I'm looking forward to being able to do a lot of things in person...

Oh, Carlos, hello! Yes, apparently the results came in and it was me. I don't quite understand, but I'll really try my best.

And I'm really sorry you're not here with us, you were so helpful and wonderful and you really deserve an award of some kind. We're going to miss you here, but I promise, I'll always take your call if you call me. I don't know about calling you. No one really called me when I was in the desert, but I could always call out so I'll keep my eye on my phone for you.

That is really weird and not at all a democratic process, but I can't think of a single person better suited for the job!

But, um, an award - That's - that's really not necessary, I'm just glad that I was able to help!

[The last time someone tried to give him a trophy it did nooooooot go that well.]

Hold on, I am attempting to see if this - There!

[If Dana's phone has video, she might be getting visual now.]

I am attempting to override the video feed. Is it working on your end?

Hi!

[She waves.]

I can't believe I just saw you and now you're not here. But you are here, on my phone. Everything's different and everything's the same.

[Carlos beams back. He's sitting on an outcropping of rock, under the ~~umbrella~~ Very Scientific Sun Blocker. There's a wave back.]

I wish I could be there! Unfortunately it appears that wishing is not a sufficient mode of transport between realities.

What do you mean different? What happened when the doors closed? Is everyone... is everyone okay?

[There's a particular "someone" among the "everyone" that he's almost afraid to ask about. Dana will probably figure it out. She is, after all, a very smart Former-Intern-Now-Mayor.]

Oh! Everyone is fine. Strex is completely gone, even Steve Carlsburg helped. He... he saved Cecil from that horrible Kevin guy.

Oh, I wish you could see it now. The Dog Park is locked. The Hooded Figures are back and even Old Woman Josie is taking about rebuilding the Old Opera House again.

That's amazing, that's - Wait. There seems to be some sort of signal malfunction. Did you just say Steve saved Cecil? From Kevin? Cecil let him?!

[He can accept Giant Masked Warriors. And Angels. And gravity being optional. But THIS might just be the one thing that is TOO WEIRD even for Night Vale.]

I know, right? I couldn't believe it, but it was on the radio and so it must be true. Cecil was very angry about it. But it did get rid of Kevin.

[Carlos is glad he's already sitting down. It's been quite an eventful day.]

Did he... what exactly did Steve do?!

[He would have expected ANY other outcome then this. It is simply not computing.]

Kevin said some very bad things about Cecil's niece - Steve's step-daughter. He became very angry and just... threw Kevin and his terrible smile right out the studio.

About Janice?

[Carlos is trying to stay calm, but there's a furrow of eyebrows here. Janice is a good kid - Had Kevin actually been stupid enough to threaten her outright?]

But if Steve just threw Kevin out, how did that stop him? Strex has helicopters, and Cecil -

[... He loves Cecil, he does, so trying to be diplomatic here.]

Well, Cecil has ideas about barricades that are not... the most conventional.

SPOILERS: Welcome to Night Vale

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