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[bedeviledspider]

H- Hey.

[ The wheel of a motorbike comes into frame. It'd be cool, if it wasn't also on fire. Just like the rest of the vehicle, seemingly, which Reilly is sitting on. With an expression that's somewhere between resigned amusement and suppressed panic. ]

On a scale of one to ten, how much should I be freaking out right now? I mean, I've never even ridden a motorcycle before. I just thought they looked cool! And it wouldn't hurt to have a ride, but, as soon as I touched it--

Fire. Everywhere.

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[remake]

---Like.

Like from Star Trek?

[ miles no ]

[bedeviledspider]

...Uhhhh, no. Sorry.

[remake]

Oh.

Well... sorry, I guess...?

[bedeviledspider]

It's no big deal.

There's a doctor here. Named McCoy. Hank McCoy.

[remake]

I thought that was the Star Trek guy's name.

So he's-- he's a science-Doctor, not a Doctor-Doctor?

[bedeviledspider]

Science-Doctor. Works for the school here, I believe.

[remake]

What school?

[bedeviledspider]

You haven't heard of it?

[ BIG BROTHER INSTINCTS KICKING IN as he asks: ] Wait a minute. Are you in school right now?

[remake]

Well I mean, I've heard of schools in New York before. I don't know which one you're talking about.

[ 8C BAW REILLY, NO SCHOOL PLS ]

I-- n-no? But it's July, nobody's in school right now.

[bedeviledspider]

A school here. Not Midtown or wherever you went before.

[ :| YOU'RE NOT GETTING OUT OF THIS THAT EASILY MILES ]

What about after the summer ends?

[remake]

I- uh, I don't know. I might not even be here by then, people get ported out all the time, right?

[ but reilly he looks SO HOPEFUL rn (through... the mask... somehow...) ]

[bedeviledspider]

[ no miles even your magicial emoting-through-a-mask powers can't save you now ]

Uh-huh. Or you'll stay stuck here learning absolutely nothing.

[remake]

Well I'm still learning things, just not, I don't know, book things. More like not-dying-horribly like the last-- [ oh shit Spider-Woman told him not to talk about that ] uh, like- like...

[ super lamely: ] N-never mind.

[bedeviledspider]

Book things are still important! You can't ignore them just so you can—

[ Then the rest of that - the subject even he's been dancing around Jess with - sinks in. ] Never mind. We can talk about this later.

[ Now's not the time for a lecture. ]

[remake]

[ He's quiet for a split second. He feels bad - it's like he has the superpower to make literally every conversation awkward. ] Um-- okay. Later is... good.