Video: Quicksand: day 1

[She knows he is back. She saw him on the platform, she's seen him a few times since. But she hadn't approached. He probably had known she was there but she had scarpered before he noticed.

She had to make sure. That he was the right Peter. Her Peter. Not another Peter who wouldn't even know who she was. She had to figure out her thoughts, she's made at him for leaving even though it wasn't his fault.

Her feelings had been all muddled up about him even before he left but she had missed him. So much.

So after his announcement she makes her way to the dressing carriage. She stepped into the carriage, spotting him straight away.]

Peter.

Edited 2022-03-05 06:41 (UTC)

[ He's still the same Peter, he's even lounging in one of those web hammocks that Tony often got on his case about for wasting web fluid. Peter looks up as he hears her approach and offers a her a smile, although it feels a little uncertain from his own guilt he's feeling over things not at all in his control. ]

Hey!

[ he sounds a little breathless ]

I know I was gone for a really long time and I'm really sorry, like really, I'm kicking myself for it even though technically I had no control over it but I'm still really sorry I left like that.

[Wow it has been half a year and she'd almost forgotten how much he talked, how fast he talked and how many words he used when he really didn't need to.

She's missed him so much. She sighed.] It did no even be being your fault. Do no be apologising.

[ He kind of expected that she'd be mad at him. Is she not mad at him? It's not as though anyone else so far has been. Maybe that was part of his own guilt. ]

I know, but it feels like my fault because I'm the one that was gone. Um.. thanks for being understanding though.

[ Still the same Peter and still really good at finding ways to blame himself for everything. ]

[Once she would have been but she's grown up a lot, changed a lot and so she just sighs and scrambles up to sit next to him.]

You should no be blaming yourself. The train do just be being bad at keeping our tethers. It do be being a good thing you do be being back. You did be missing a lot.

Yeah, no kidding. From what I understand I've missed about six months worth of things and that's- I don't even know where I've been in all that time. Was I some kind of stasis or did I just go to bed one night and blip on the platform?

[ He sucks in a breath and tries to distract himself from that thought as it's particularly anxiety inducing. ]

S-so what did I miss? What's new with you?

No one do be knowing. I do no even be thinking the train do be knowing. [She sighed.]

What do you last be remembering. It did be being Erda right? The world with the demons?

That was the last mission but I remember going to that place where you throw stones in the river and some of Month Llama but that's about where it stops.

[ He's not sure if it's comforting or not that the train may not even know. He's leaning towards not. ]

So.. what have I missed? Did we learn anything new?

You did be missing a lot. [She sighed.] Mostly really stupid stuff.

In Llama we did be going to a place that did be being a city all on top of each other and if you did be being near the sky you did be having money and if you did be being on the ground you did no be being and the air did be being terrible and people did be needing to be buying oxygen just to be breathing. Some people did be being stuck inside a computer game and other people did be seeing stuff and there did be being unreal monsters and [She waved a hand.] People's minds did be being weird again. Just like in Erda.

...I missed Skyscrapers? Maaaaa, I've been dying to do some real web swinging and I completely miss it because I guess the train thought I had more pressing concerns?

[ He lets out an irritated sigh and then runs his hands through his curls. Right. Not the point. ]

Oh great. And I missed the perfect to time to put all my video game skills to practical use.

[ The train did this on purpose. It had to have. How mean. ]

Sounds like I got benched for a lot of stuff I would have been really good at actually. How is that fair?

Nothing do be being fair. [She told him with a sigh.] Anyways then we did be going into a maze and we did be seeing stuff. Good stuff and bad stuff. From our memories. It did be being stupid and a trick and there did be being a voice in the sky. The person who did be being behind it and Erda and that other weird world with no people.

It seems like texting would be a pretty easy thing to add ourselves if we had the right parts. [It'd be a lot easier if Pidge was here, anyway.]

Any way the train would give us a discount on old tech? A box of pagers? Anything?

You'd think but we still don't have it.

[ SIGH ]

anyways, I don't know if you can still do it, but I know the train didn't used to micromanage things with the store. Like I got away with ordering a case of monster energy and that was twenty four cans with just twenty five points.

It may have wised up though.

Wow, you must have pulled some real all-nighters.

[Someone hasn't been warned that they have to go to bed yet.]

Does the workload get that serious around here?

Hm? No, I just don't sleep well anyway-or at least not without the train's help- so I drink them to keep my mind stimulated.

That's fair. I've seen Pidge and I pull some all-nighters trying to decode or build something and wow. We really could have used a space brand energy drink.

Uhhhh... What do you mean the train's help?

Hm? Oh, the train puts everyone in mandatory sleep mode at some point. You teleport back to bed and don't really notice it so it doesn't feel like you slept at all which- what a rip off- but yeah, you can't escape sleep. Trust me, I've tried. Lost many a high score on Crisis On..

[ SIGH ]

Oh, great. I thought the garrison curfews were bad. That's next level. It'll even interupt games?

[Because that's a real bummer.] How are you supposed to grind resources for hours? Or finish all the leveling up side-quests that you need to do?

Sad but true.

Be fast. Constant vigilance.

RIP my high score.

You had a spot in dressin'...?

[......................................oh right-]

...Nah pretty sure textin's still out. Can use th' comms for it fine, but not th's thing.

[ SIGH ]

I was gone for so long but it doesn't feel like so I still just... really miss texting.

Maybe we could like, buy back our smartphones...jus' start connectin' 'm t' text that way...

[Yes...Yessssssss...] ...I mean it'd have t' work somehow righ'..?

[Are there void cell towers,]

[Excuse her while she squints at the video for a second, that name... she remembers seeing something about it on the list of people in the cabin thing.]

Bro, I've only been here for like a month or some shit and why some things are so behind and some things are so advanced, I don't fuckin' understand.

Also think you're in the same sleeping spot I am, 'sup.

It is a mystery.

[ Peter offers a shrug with an obvious 'WLEP' expression on his face. ]

But there's video games, movies, and even a lab now so I really shouldn't complain. Much.

[ He pauses a moment, same sleeping spot? He's met two of his roommates that makes her- ]

Oh, hey! That makes you um... Jolyne, right? Nice to meet you.

It is a mystery for the ages, ain't it.

[She's mostly given up on trying to figure it out already, better to focus on more pressing matters. Like keeping an eye on someone, even if it's usually the other way around at this point.]

Thaaaat would be me, in the flesh. My sleep schedule tends to be a little weird, sorry in advance as I'm still trying to adjust to that shit here. A little hard when you basically go from one prison to another, yeah?

I'm gonna be up front. I've never been to prison.

But I did accidentally get myself locked in deep storage vault for like three five hours before. And then detention for missing a major school function. That's basically the same thing right?

[ Probably not even a little bit and he knows that. ]

And no worries, my sleeping schedule is all over the place, too.

Edited (I know how to spell) 2022-03-13 05:03 (UTC)

Iiiii don't recommend it. But also, for that record and all that shit, I didn't do what I was in there for.

[It sounds worse when she says she was in prison, but she sure isn't lying about the fact she didn't do shit to end up there.]

... Deep.... storage vault and detention. Dude, how old are you? It ain't remotely the same, I'll tell you that.

Great~ It ain't much on purpose or anythin' like that and at this point I kinda sleep like a log. But welcome... back, I guess? To this utter fuckin' trashfire.

I believe it, there's a law or something back home that basically says an enhanced person can be arrested without due process or something-Idk. I should have paid more attention in my government class and I'm only realizing that now. And I'm sixteen.

..

or seventeen. I've been on this train long enough I might actually be seventeen now. there's no real way to know since I keep getting reset.

"Enhanced person"? Not that anyone being arrested for bogus bullshit charges is unheard of where I'm from, but usually there's some court shit involved. Kinda. Mostly. Damn, you're baby.

[Jolyne NO.]

So you've done this coming and going shit with the train before, huh? How's that working out for ya.

I am not!

[ Because that makes him sound like an adult. ]

...

an-anyways.

uh.. you know, trying not to have a massive panic attack anytime I think about how long I've been gone and the fact that I have no fucking memory of where I've been all this time-

[ He voice raises an octave. ]

...I'm good.

You're not even a legal adult.

[Says the barely adult nineteen-year-old.

But big oofs, that is familiar and she's flinching somewhat when his voice raises. Sore spot, wrong button, she's making sure to remember that for later. Because goodness knows she has her own garbage to still unpack and not the best for unpacking anyone else's.]

For all the medical types we got runnin' around, you'd think there'd be people that fuck with emotions and brains and stuff. It's a big fuckin' joke that there ain't.

So?

[ that squeak in his voice sure isn't going convince anyone. ]

[ Ahem. ]

That doesn't make me a baby.

and not really because how many people here do you think would admit they need therapy? I mean, I had to go to therapy a few times in my life but it's hella expensive so the few times my Aunt's insurance covered don't really count.. that's kinda messed up because she's a nurse-or she was. I heard that she got a new job at a shelter or something? I know more about my universe's future than I really probably should.

Edited 2022-03-13 05:42 (UTC)

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