[Voice]

[unknownrival]

[Utterly dripping with loathing:]

Yes community, another romantic virus was exactly what I needed. Thank you.

Comments

[sandinmyboots]

We stop her. And Scratch. With physical force, if need be. (No Retasu murder, please fear not - I'll stuff her into your temple and you make sure she doesn't leave or contact Scratch until she stops.)

[unknownrival]

I could do that. How do we deal with Scratch?

[sandinmyboots]

I don't know yet. His teleporting and omniscience will make it tricky...I should have killed him when he was mortal, but it's too late for regrets now. Maybe warn everyone?

[unknownrival]

I can do my best. I don't want this to happen any more than you do.

[sandinmyboots]

Then we'll get on it! I'll need to figure out how to get to her, and you can keep an eye on her...

[unknownrival]

I'll be a watchful guardian.

[sandinmyboots]

And maybe she can start to get over whatever it is that's going on.

[unknownrival]

Wouldn't that be nice...

[sandinmyboots]

When I'm the voice of reason in a situation, it's never a good sign.

[unknownrival]

No, not really. Still. Thank you.

[sandinmyboots]

Good. I've been working for weeks to try and figure out what's going on and you're the first person to acknowledge it. You're the only smart person here, it feels like.

[unknownrival]

I'm sure that does everyone else a disservice. They have their own reasons.

[sandinmyboots]

Nope. They're mostly idiots. Can't be helped.

[unknownrival]

Not mostly. Some, yes.

[sandinmyboots]

No, no, it's definitely mostly. I am surrounded by people who have replaced their think boxes with other things. Possibly a hatch to keep their weapons. The community is the only exception to this rule.

[unknownrival]

Well, I can't say I know your world that well.

[Just not bothering to argue.]

[sandinmyboots]

I'd say it goes for all the worlds. You just live in an area full of interesting people. There's pockets of them all over; this place just gets the ones in America and Japan.

[unknownrival]

I wonder why that is.

[sandinmyboots]

I suspect that wherever this place is located, it's in America or Japan on an Earth. In the twentieth century...

[unknownrival]

Or twenty-first, but I see what you mean.

[sandinmyboots]

Right! Almost everyone is from that time period! And the people who aren't have characteristics similar to that time period, or come from a 'canon' in that time period!

[unknownrival]

Your theory is sound.

[sandinmyboots]

Unfortunately, I don't know what we can do with that information yet.

[unknownrival]

I'll keep it in mind for if things change.