Llama 26 | Video

[helborn]

[Casper looks... tired. But excited! He smiles at the screen.]

... So if we vote for a lab the scientists shut up and any damage is contained. Right now I think they're using the quiet car which is sort of the opposite of what it's intended for.

And I'd like the quiet car back for... quiet. And doing some writing and such. So let's just... get it over with.

[He looks like he's about to turn off the screen, but stops.]

Also Q'uila, Della, Zagreus, and Thanatos - wanted to have a chat with you. Uh, not together? I mean you could, but I just - there's no private filtering here.

[Now he's done.]

Comments

[sos_pilot]

... I'm not a perfect mom either, Casper. I've done a lot of awful things I need to make up for... but what you and I got in common? We keep moving forward. No matter what the world throws at is, we keep on taking steps. It's not easy, but it's who we are.

You're a good guy, Casper. Never forget that.

[helborn]

I mean I know it's a bar so low it's literally in an Underworld, but at least you try.

[He blushes a little bit. Ah... he's never gotten used to compliments. Not totally.]

[sos_pilot]

... I think we both could use a little work accepting compliments, huh?

[helborn]

You're not wrong. And for me... it's hard to get rid of seventeen or eighteen years of trauma in a few years, especially given some of the trauma there, too.

[sos_pilot]

And the train likes to give us a few scoop-fulls of it as well, sometimes.

[helborn]

Yeah... you can come to me if you need someone to talk to, you know? I'll listen. And I'd like to think I give pretty good hugs.

[sos_pilot]

[ She finds his hand, takes it, squeezes it. ]

You give amazing hugs. I know that for a fact.