{ abaxcity }

[gleans]

Hey -- can we please just recap? So when I'm barely fucking done being sixteen for a week, I get some great nightmare nostalgia, and then Brad dies. I spend the next week being a miserable piece of shit, getting fucked over by my own dreams, and getting legit drunk in the first time in, like... over a year. He comes back fucked up and can't talk. And now, not even a full fuckin' week later, you've changed your mind about not getting involved in this 'beware the ides of March' thing.

What part of I'm fucking exhausted do you not get, man? P's already gonna die in this thing, and everyone else is gonna be fuckin' trying to kill each other. And Brad's fucked up enough as it is, from coming back -- think about him, dude. Does he really need to start thinking I'm that -- fuckin' -- thing?

I know you're capable of not being a total tyrant, dude. We need the biggest fuckin' break after all this.

G

Comments

[jackoftheroads]

How dangerous is it there, really? Say everything that could happen to you, did. How long could your average person make it?

[gleans]

Your average person? Like, someone who's never had weird shit happen to them? Uh... unless they're adaptable, not long, I'm guessing. It can get pretty friggin' dangerous.

[jackoftheroads]

Yeah, but how many people there haven't had "weird shit" happen to them? Your average person, in context, I guess is what I meant.

[gleans]

... To be honest? I don't think there's many. I mean, some things are less out there than others, but I think most of the people I know have had some kind of thing that they've dealt with in the past.

Anyway, I don't think anyone's gone insane or had a nervous breakdown, yet, and I've been there for like, three months. Sometimes I feel like I'm going nuts, but. Not yet.

[jackoftheroads]

That's about as promising as I could have hoped for.

I know there's no way to get out, I'm not even going to bother asking if anyone's tried, but has anyone been able to contact their outside worlds?

[gleans]

Nope. Not that I know of. And when people you know turn up, it's like you never disappeared, for them.

[jackoftheroads]

They don't realize you've been gone? What if it's been years, back in your world?

[gleans]

Doesn't matter how long you've been in the city, it's like... whatever point you last remember, it's like you're paused there. It's weird.

[jackoftheroads]

Hm. That shouldn't be much of an issue for me and my friend.

[gleans]

Well... hey, that sounds good. Good that you got a friend coming, too.