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[omniavincit]

WILLIAM

WARDEN OF THE S.F.S. PEREGRINE

art by hawta mahmood

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[omniavincit]

Remember how you're dead too?

I'm sure it's more complicated but I think of it as time being pinched at the moment of your death. Maybe whoever's doing the pinching loses their grip. Time goes on: you die.

I'm sorry.

[smugreport]

But that’s just the line right? The whole “you’re dead” thing? It’s just used to scare us into staying here.

[omniavincit]

No. I have a lot of dead friends. [ Well, at least four. ]

On the old ship their whole cabin would vanish. Just like that.

[smugreport]

And that's it? One day you're gone? They just... re-kill you? It's this or that?

[omniavincit]

Sometimes people come back. It's rare, exceedingly rare, but it happens.

Sometimes they don't come back the same.

But mostly this is it.

[smugreport]

What, do they come back with an extra face? A tail?


[ He's joking...but only because what else do you do in the face off all this existential shit? Because while "but if you go back there, you're just gone" goes unsaid, Rhys is picking up on it. ]

I don't even know how he died. Or how I died. It couldn't have been





I mean it was just a hit to the head?


[ ooooh. fuck. ]

[omniavincit]

I figured him for an OD. But maybe not.

I tried talking to him but he didn't want to think about it.

What happened to you?

[smugreport]

A hit to the head, apparently.


[ There's a long pause as Rhys writes and re-writes his next message. ]


It wasn't personal, the whole 'knocking you unconscious' part of the plan. I'm sorry you ended up being collateral damage. I didn't want to kill you or anything.

[omniavincit]

You can look me in the eye before you bash me over the head but not when you apologize? Fuck you. That's worth nothing.

Keep on feeling like shit. You are.