His bro left.

[lovethathatch]

...He was gonna leave eventually. They all do. Whatever, I'll get over it.

...I'm still gonna miss him, though.

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[falkeditupagain]

Hey man, I know how that is.

Everyone leaves eventually. [It does nothing for his abandonment issues, but he gets it.] But I bet you're not completely alone.

In these cities...there's always someone, right?

[lovethathatch]

Yeah... plus, stay in a place as long as I have, you gotta get used to people leaving, I guess.

Doesn't mean it doesn't still suck.

[falkeditupagain]

[He's been in his place over a year. Almost two years if you don't count the two months he left and then came back. It's something you have to adapt to.]

Hey, I hear you. Jeremiah left a few weeks ago...

Right before Christmas, too. It just seems to suck more if its around the holidays...

[lovethathatch]

[About two years over here, not counting about three months of a hiatus.]

Jeremiah...? Is that the, uh, zombie guy?

[falkeditupagain]

Yeah. Zombro.

Gotta wonder what's happening back home, I mean, no one knows. What if he goes home just to get shot? [He's trying hard not to think about it.

So instead he'll just be looking up from fiddling with his hands to look at Veser a little more seriously.]

Who did you lose?

[lovethathatch]

First actual friend I made here -- Mordecai. Six foot tall talking blue jay.

[Little shrug.]

[falkeditupagain]

He sounds pretty cool... [He used to be friends with a really nerdy unicorn. So he understands the weird animal-bro's thing.]

Well, maybe he'll come back sometime?

[lovethathatch]

He was.

Nah, his mundane made a pretty big deal out of saying he won't be around anymore. I mean, I guess it could happen, but...

[falkeditupagain]

Shitty, man. Real shitty...

[Well? What else do you say to that?]

You sound like you could use a drink or something.

[lovethathatch]

Damn straight. Spiked eggnog or whatever, that'd be the shit.

[falkeditupagain]

I might just have to make an exception to that under-aged drinking rule for once.

[lovethathatch]

[Griiiiin.]

I knew you could be a bro if you tried.

[falkeditupagain]

Hey, who says I'm trying?

[Maybe a little smile right back atcha, Mister Hatch.]

I'm always this cool.

[lovethathatch]

Yeah, sure.

[Veser punches Hanna lightly in the shoulder.]

Whatever you say.

[falkeditupagain]

No really!

You just never gave me a chance, see?

[Except no really, he's not that cool. But he is good at being a bro. At least he tries to.]

[lovethathatch]

Kinda had other things goin' on. [You know, like dead best friends and suddenly vampires.] Maybe if you get the pelt back, you'll get a chance.

[falkeditupagain]

I know, I know. I'm not gonna guilt you for it. Bad times. [Bat times, man. Suddenly vampires.]

Hey, I'm trying! I just have to deal with crazy clock guys with guns first.

[lovethathatch]

Yeah.

Whoa, guns? That sounds legit -- uh, in the bad way... does this have to do with that Tibenoch guy you asked me about?

[falkeditupagain]

It does... [This is why he didn't want you running off. Nineteen is a little too young to be doing crazy shit, especially if a Zombie can stiff arm you to the ground when you try and tackle him. That thing is sewn on with thread, man.]

He was totally cool the first time I saw him at the liquor store...but, well? He sorta went crazy. It might have to do with all those clocks in his house, but he was being a major dick. Talking to himself too.

[lovethathatch]

[HE CAN'T BE TAMED and also his parents never taught him any better.]

How many clocks are we talkin' about, here? 'Cause that was probably your first clue, dude.

[falkeditupagain]

Uh...like a good fifty on the one main room we saw? Maybe more?

[Yeah, that was probably a sign of crazy. Though he'd never heard of a crazy clock guy before. Just the crazy cat ladies.]

[lovethathatch]

Hooooly shit, man. Yeah, that's usually when you ditch the warning bells, go for the fuckin' firetruck sirens.

[falkeditupagain]

He kind of drank some weird shit that looked like it was smoking and was bleeding oil.

[Yeah. Yeah. Fucked up, right?]

I think you were missing out, running off like that.

[lovethathatch]

[Just... silence for a few minutes because whoa.]

...Yeah. Actually, think I mighta passed on that. Way too fucked up for me.

[falkeditupagain]

Totally missing out.

[Hey, you hired him to go find that pelt right?

He's trying his best, you can't say that he isn't.]

[lovethathatch]

[Oh yeah, not saying he isn't at all. Just saying it sucks to be him.]

I'll just have to tag along next time.

[falkeditupagain]

Seriously! All the things you miss when you're not hanging around the coolest investigator in town.

[lovethathatch]

Well, I dunno about all the things. Some pretty sweet shit's gone down where my mun stuck me.

[falkeditupagain]

How do you know where I am isn't cooler?

You'll never know until you try it.

[lovethathatch]

Depends. Does your place have Optimus freaking Prime? Or Megatron who I totally got to meet, by the way?

[falkeditupagain]

Wh-...Bu!

OPTIMUS PRIME? No way! [Okay, that's pretty damn cool....There were some peeps from the Dresden files for a while though. And Spock. That's cool, right?]

[lovethathatch]

[There's a bonus point.]

Yeah way, dude, there's shitton of Transformers. Haaaaaaven't gotten to actually meet O.P. himself, though.

[falkeditupagain]

Well that's still really awesome!

Transformers might be a little to big for the city though...or they'd be super weak, I dunno how you'd figure that stuff out. Huh.

[lovethathatch]

Aw, gotta downplay the awesomeness? That sucks. Then again, less chances for someone accidentally getting stepped on.

[falkeditupagain]

Just a little, yeah.

But you gotta wonder how they didn't step on people in the cartoon...I mean, they're huge!

[lovethathatch]

80s cartoon logic, that's how. It's a powerful, mysterious, and occasionally stupid thing.

[falkeditupagain]

Like Thundercats or He-man.

The villains always come back some how.

[lovethathatch]

Haha! Right? There's always some deus ex machina or some other bullshit that pops up.

[falkeditupagain]

Exactly!

Wait...Wait! Have you met any of the ponies yet? I was totally BFFS with Twilight Sparkle. It was great!

[He told her his name was Tipsy Moonshine and she believed him too. He misses that pony.]

[lovethathatch]

Ponies? Uh... we've had a few, but I've never actually met one. "BFFs"?

[falkeditupagain]

You know, best friends forever.

Twilight could do some wicked awesome magic though. And I mean, talking unicorns, how can you resist?

[lovethathatch]

Yeah, I know, I just didn't think anyone outside of teenage girls said that anymore.

[If he smiles after he says it, does that help make it clear he's joking?]

Magic? Shit, I might have to pay more attention to if we have any now.

[falkeditupagain]

[That's okay, you're a dick, but he still likes you.]

Well the unicorns have magic anyways. She was teaching me some stuff. We also had a Fluttershy...but damn was she hard to talk to. Always running away.

[anonasu]

... I would apologize, but I have no reason to. What's done is done.

[lovethathatch]

Hey, it's cool, man. Just sayin' it's gonna be weird not seein' him around.

[anonasu]

Not like he was around much for a while now...but I understand.

[lovethathatch]

Thanks for passin' on the goodbye message, anyway.

[anonasu]

I do what I can. Which, granted, isn't much.

[lovethathatch]

But I guess it's still something.