I wish I could promise you won't. I wish I had anything better to tell you besides that...I'm here for you. No matter what happens. No matter what they put us through. I'll be here to love you, and to listen to you whenever you're scared, and to face whatever problems come our way with you, and to get it wrong, and to get it right, too, with you.
The story has to end. The Showmaster wants to get to the end. The thought police jumpscare told me, you have to get to the end. There were two other voyages like this before us.
[ rubs slow circles into his back ]
I don't know what it is, but there's something. And whatever it is, we'll face it together.
...I don't really know what's a positive for me anymore. I just know that I've been scared and angry, all the time, for weeks. And that I'm so sick of it, and so sick of taking it out on everyone, and so sick of feeling this way...except it's not going anywhere.
...I guess I figured, he seemed so normal, even if his thoughts occasionally messed with me... at least I could still catch them and remind myself, you know?
But if he's not human... I don't know if I want to risk that when I don't even know what he is.
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Is it supposed to be comforting, knowing that even if I die, even if I'm maimed, at least I'll still come back, again and again?
There are many, many ways to die, Aster. They've already shown their creativity there, too.
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But... I think if I just got used to it, that would be a point of no return for me anyway.
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...yeah. Yeah, I know what you're saying.
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[But he's not sure he can avoid it forever, either.]
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I wish I could promise you won't. I wish I had anything better to tell you besides that...I'm here for you. No matter what happens. No matter what they put us through. I'll be here to love you, and to listen to you whenever you're scared, and to face whatever problems come our way with you, and to get it wrong, and to get it right, too, with you.
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...Yeah. That's the most either of us can do, isn't it...?
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[ pulling into a hug, if he'll allow that ]
But it won't be this way forever.
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...I really hope not.
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It won't be.
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[But from the way he says it, it's more an attempt to reassure himself.]
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[ rubs slow circles into his back ]
I don't know what it is, but there's something. And whatever it is, we'll face it together.
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[ continues to hold ]
Me too. Trust me, you aren't the only one who's scared.
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I don't know if that's a good thing. It just seems like a better thing than being useless to everyone. Or worse.
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...yeah, there are. You're thinking about yours?
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I can't think of a single positive trait from my guy.
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You really don't have to keep looking at them.
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But if he's not human... I don't know if I want to risk that when I don't even know what he is.
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