Waiting to apply to a game ... Muse is not happy :/

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Dontcha have somethin' better to do than bug me? Seriously, pick some other sad sack to entertain you... I'm busy.

[ busy eating three day old pizza and watching the Humphrey Bogart classic, 'In a Lonely Place' ... Wow, really busy there huh, Heine? ]

You've tried this before. We've worked it out already, I don't mesh well with others, so why keep botherin'? Let sleeping dogs lie... It's nice and dark in here, why'd I wanna move?

[ not that he has much of a choice, he's getting app'd somewhere real soon, whether he likes it or not. ]

... And no, I don't want any cast mates there with me... Why'd that make it any better? Sheesh you're really pullin' the reasons outta ya ass now bud. Just let it go. It's not happnin'

[ stubborn as a mule. ]

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Oh, that place...

[ Lily keeps her distance from him, looking timid in his presence. She's not particularly shocked to see him; she knows how things work around here, but she doesn't really know what to say. What to do. ]

I was there once, a long time ago. It's... not good. It's scary. [ ... ] I don't want you to go there, Heine.

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[ You're tugging at his heart strings Lily... This is emotional torment. ]

I don't want to go there either, Lily... Don't think I have much of a choice...

[ An after thought. ]

Was it really that bad?

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[ Lily frowns, but nods her head softly to show she understands. It wasn't like she had much of a choice, either. ]

Yeah. I did a lot of bad things... I turned into something really terrible.

[ She pauses, having an after thought of her own. ]

It was just like the underground.

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[ He's used to it by now. Been a few places and done plenty of things his mun made him. It sucked.]

... I've been told what they hope I turn into... Not gonna lie, I'm not looking forward to any of my 'choices'.

[ No... It can't be like down there. Heine can't go back to a place like that, he just can't. It's taken him so long to get back on his feet after what he did to you... And even now, just seeing and talking to you is making him question his own sanity. ]

....What happened to you? What did you become?

[ He didn't want to ask but he had to. ]

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[ Lily bites her lip, looking more nervous than ever. Does she even want to ask? She's seen people turn into every sort of monster back there, and the idea of Heine becoming like them makes her stomach turn. ]

Ah, uhm... It's always scary when they hope for those bad things, isn't it? What do they...?

[ ... She won't even bother finishing the question. Heine's always read her well, he'll know what she means to say. ]

Minotaur. That's what I was.

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[ With a sad sent sigh, Heine rubbed at the back of his neck, at that bandaged collar of his. ]

Yea, he'd got his fingers crossed I wind up getting a Troll or .... Wendigo

[ He can't look her in the eye as he says that. It's too horrid to think of himself as either. ]

I'm sorry, Lily... You didn't deserve to be that at all... You're far more than some horned beast.