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[rhombus]

[Hi, network, here's a porkschop mouth and bear hat you haven't seen in a long while. He appears to be smiling, but a pretty strained smile.]

Yo, peeps! I guess I'm back! I guess that's okay! Not like I was busy or anything! It's pretty jumpin' here, lots of adventures and dance parties to be had, even if Peebles isn't here! Or Marcy! Starchy! . . . Jake! I can do this again, YEAH! If the City still needs me to be a hero, I can't really say no, right? That's so not heroy, and that's what I'm allllll about. [A little arm wiggle dance to illustrate that this is, indeed, fact.]

[Pause.] I, uh, didn't beef it down a bunch of stairs again, did I? That'd be so embarrassing. Ahem.

Callin' out for all my City bros, answer me so we can do sweet screen fistbumps and catch up! And a special shout out to Zizi, where are you, gurl! I keep calling you don't answer. Scamper your sweet unreadable teal text on over here.

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[glowsferatu]

[ you can see as kanaya's brows raise and knit as she frowns sadly. ]

Oh.

[rhombus]

Haha, don't get TOO excited to see me, Kanaya! Turn that frown upside down so we can go to town!

[glowsferatu]

Right, of course. Don't mind me. I just recalled an unpleasant tale I'd once heard that in no way involves yourself or sad recollections your return inspires.

How have you been, Finn?

[rhombus]

Sad stories that ain't about me but I remind you have them? Buh?

I've been not as bummed looking as you, that's for sure, missy. What's up?

[glowsferatu]

I'd hate to burden you with it immediately upon your arrival. It involves the lack of scampering a certain unreadable teal text is currently doing.

[rhombus]

Oh . . . is she all mad at me for going away? I didn't mean to!

Or do you mean she broke her leg or . . . her typin' fingers or something? In which case I'll come over right away to sign her cast!

[glowsferatu]

No, Finn, she isn't mad at you. Or at least I don't think she would be anymore. Neither is she harmed, that I known of.

Were it possible, or were she capable of being aware of your return, and recalling the significance of such an advent, I imagine she would have me conveying her to your location immediately.

[rhombus]

You know, I remember a lot about this place but I forgot how confusing you can be, hahaha. Can you . . . maybe use less words? Smaller words?

[glowsferatu]

[ smaller more concise words make it harder to dance around the topic, finn!!! ]

She...she isn't here any longer.

[rhombus]

Is she . . . dead?

[glowsferatu]

No. No, she isn't dead.

She was removed from this timeline over two months ago.

[rhombus]

[He just sits there quietly. Staring. Lips wobbling a little. Trying to be a big boy.]

[glowsferatu]

Please don't. ...I can't revisit this anew.

[rhombus]

Oh . . . uhm . . . okay. [Taps his fingertips together guiltily, gives wobbly smile.] I'm sorry. We can talk about something else. Like, uhhh, pie. Have any good pie lately? Or . . . cake.

[glowsferatu]

[ oh no it's too late, she's already caught on the hooks, she's thinking about it again. ]

Not really. I don't really go out of my way to bother with pie or cakes, I guess.

[rhombus]

Why not, you should! There's all kinds, so if you don't like one, you can eat the other, and then the other, and have all the pie and cake until you find the kind you super like and then eat that over and over until the end of time!

[Babble.]

[glowsferatu]

Or, as is more likely, you'll make yourself sick eating so much pie in one sitting.

[ babble is easier than addressing the elephant in the room. ]

[rhombus]

But it'd be pie throw up, and that's the best throw up!!

[Definitely, though there might be a little too much loudness on his end to cover up that sad.]

[glowsferatu]

I would maintain that the pie would be more enjoyable if it were allowed to be properly digested instead of overwhelmed with conflicting varieties.

[ nonsense, the loudness must be directly proportionate to the sadness it seeks to counterbalance. ]

[rhombus]

No argument from me there!! I'm glad we reached this agreement!

[glowsferatu]

Oh.

I suppose I didn't expect we would do so this suddenly.

[rhombus]

Yeah, who knows what we should say next now this is solved.

[glowsferatu]

Exactly as I normally do, which is to find another problem that requires my intervention.

Which would be, um...

[rhombus]

Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Feeding the homeless?

[glowsferatu]

Well, I'd never thought of that, actually.

[ punching criminals in the face, on the other hand? she's so game for that. ]