( how to break the news to him — she imagines herself ripping off a bandaid, spurting blood from a wound. )
i met up with that reverend guy. i went out looking for him. i figured well. he can leave the grounds, go outside the barrier. so i thought he might know something. and he did.
i didn't want to get you involved and for it to be nothing
he told me the boundary is controlled by something in the house that i had to destroy and i kind of hallucinated. before i found it. but then i did find it and
( a crossroads: tell the truth, speak the lie. she doesn't want to lose trav. but then again, if she has any opportunity to try and convince him he's dating a monster, shouldn't she take it? isn't that the right thing to do? )
I don't care if it's nothing. Promise me next time you'll tell me.
[when has it ever been nothing for these two? for everyone here? he's worried. moreso when he sees the bubbles show up on his screen and his heart drops to his stomach. it's a scary thing, knowing someone you love is going to put themselves in danger over and over, and there's nothing he can do except watch and try and reassure her that telling him what she's up to won't be the end of the world.]
what do you mean you...so you're. The house burning down...
( she doesn't want to absolve herself of any guilt — there's no excuses tacked onto the end, no explanations, nothing but what she knows which is mainly a presumption founded on hard evidence. she did light a fire. the house burned up the next day. 2 + 2 = 4. )
but i also think we have a real chance of getting out of here with this with jackie, too
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@trees
I don't like how this feels.
Does that make sense?
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i think so. i mean
we're all stressed and shit
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I can't explain it. After all that stuff with the Reverend...
I mean. Can we go take a walk around the boundary again?
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course we can
( and. ahaha. )
trav
i gotta tell you something
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[why does he have a sense of impending doom.]
What happened?
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i met up with that reverend guy.
i went out looking for him. i figured
well. he can leave the grounds, go outside the barrier. so i thought he might know something. and he did.
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Nat
[cue hand running over face. sighing. mouth cupped in his palm before he can respond.]
You don't have to do that stuff alone. You should've let me know
...
What did you find out?
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i was just
i didn't want to get you involved and for it to be nothing
he told me the boundary is controlled by something in the house that i had to destroy
and i kind of
hallucinated. before i found it. but then i did find it and
( a crossroads: tell the truth, speak the lie. she doesn't want to lose trav. but then again, if she has any opportunity to try and convince him he's dating a monster, shouldn't she take it? isn't that the right thing to do? )
i lit it on fire
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[when has it ever been nothing for these two? for everyone here? he's worried. moreso when he sees the bubbles show up on his screen and his heart drops to his stomach. it's a scary thing, knowing someone you love is going to put themselves in danger over and over, and there's nothing he can do except watch and try and reassure her that telling him what she's up to won't be the end of the world.]
what do you mean you...so you're.
The house burning down...
it was you?
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( she doesn't want to absolve herself of any guilt — there's no excuses tacked onto the end, no explanations, nothing but what she knows which is mainly a presumption founded on hard evidence. she did light a fire. the house burned up the next day. 2 + 2 = 4. )
but i also think we have a real chance of getting out of here with this
with jackie, too
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[boyfriend tries to absolve girlfriend of guilt immediately
until she says something really whacky.]
Nat.
Jackie isn't...where are you going with this?