Late in the Third Jaunt Mingle, Another Report of Scary Things

[failgoyle]

Alright, alright, nowhere is safe! It's official, that's it, show's over, can we go home now? I am so done with all of this! So done!

Because Nakamiyo was supposed to be free of anyone who might want to threaten me with ghosts or shoot me in the leg, and you know who I ran into again out here? Matthew! He was right here! Right here IN NAKAMIYO WHERE HE DOESN'T BELONG! I thought he was going back to his monastery or sticking around in Koroshima to talk to dead people! Not just walking along on a path in the middle of nowhere in Nakamiyo, SENDING OUT TERRIFYING FIRE MONSTERS WITH A BAZILLION HEADS to attack people! Just when I thought whatever he could summon up couldn't get worse, he pulls that from the bowels of hell! I barely got out of there alive!

...Cassandra, I'm in Liminal Space again, if you were wondering.

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[fearinahandfulof]

[There is a long, long pause.]

I could have accompanied you, you know.

[failgoyle]

But there was no time! He was just there and I had to get away fast!

[fearinahandfulof]

I meant before.

[She'd been given one task. Just one.]

[failgoyle]

But I had to pee! And you're a girl!

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra cannot remember anyone making that particular argument against her presence before. "Monster," yes. "Girl," no.]

I could have not looked if it would have bothered you.

[failgoyle]

It's...just...I have a shy bladder!

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra knows what all those words mean. She's just not sure she understands them in that particular order.]

A what?

[private]

[bypartisan]

[Oh hell. All he'd wanted to do was give Cassandra something to do that would help them all and now that idiot...]

Cassandra, this is not your fault. None of us could have known that Thibault could get in trouble urinating.

[private]

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra is quiet for a moment. When she 'speaks' again, her mental voice is very small.]

I do not think I am very good at this.

Re: [private]

[bypartisan]

I don't think anyone would be. I gave you an impossible task, Cassandra, and for that I apologize.

[private]

[fearinahandfulof]

[She hadn't been expecting an apology.]

You don't have to...

Re: [private]

[bypartisan]

I think I do. I'm sorry, Cassandra, that I asked you to keep Thibault out of trouble when the task itself is impossible.

[private]

[fearinahandfulof]

It shouldn't be, though... should it?

[pseudologist]

Were you trying to rob him?

[failgoyle]

No! I was just walking! He just wants to kill me for sitting on the crazy dead lady's house! And I don't just go around trying to rob people in broad daylight!

Or at all. I don't rob people. At all. When I'm sober. All of these things.

[pseudologist]

You realize anything with that many qualifications isn't going to convince anyone, right?

[failgoyle]

S-sure it is! It definitely is.

Because I do not steal things.

Anymore.

[pseudologist]

Except for wheelbarrows full of food.

[failgoyle]

But that was for needy talking animals!

Like Robin Hood!

[dino_zarf]

The whole penninsula's not that big. People travel, especially when it's getting wild like this.

[failgoyle]

It's too wild, if you ask me! How does anyone live here?

Oh, wait, they don't, they die first!

[dino_zarf]

Same way people live any wild place. They find a way together. THat's what we're all supposed to do too.

[failgoyle]

But what if you can't do that?

Because I don't seem to be very good at it.

[dino_zarf]

Then you find someone who is and follow their lead. I spent my first two Jaunts following Zoe around.

[failgoyle]

That is assuming anyone wants to put up with me for that long.