🎧 homophonic | pcs | alex (not satan)

[silicone]

I'm like a bee, I can sense stuff.

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[camena]

[ hehehehehehe okay she'll give topper a little pet on his head, then draw back. ]

We shouldn't even have to eat or sleep. If we're dead. At least, that's what I think.

[silicone]

[ he accepts and then scrambles to run circles on the bed for a bit before settling. ]

Why let us buy food and beds then... seems dumb.

[camena]

Buying a bed with nowhere to put it is pretty stupid in general...

[silicone]

[ he stares at his phone ]

Some special bed for dead people, but it's a scam, I bet.

I'm Eiden, by the way. [ he's dead, not rude. ]

[camena]

If we're floating things being a scam, doesn't this whole set up seem pretty fishy to you...?

[ ... ah well. ]

Oh, right. I'm Alex - nice to meet you.

[silicone]

[ blinks ]

You're floating things? What?

[camena]

Like, ideas. Floating ideas! Ugh.

[ that ugh was a little bit mean and unnecessary. alas. ]

[silicone]

[ he knows when he's earned it. ]

Right! Right—sorry. I'm... used to people who can literally float things. It's the first thing I think of sometimes. But hmm...

It is pretty weird, though. Only weird rich people do this kind of thing. Kidnapping randos and making them do crazy stuff. Feels like a movie...

[camena]

... What?

Wait, go back to the first part about literally floating things.

[ SHE'S A NORMIE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN ]

[silicone]

[ help ]

I ended up getting sucked into this place where magic's real and some people can make things float with magic...?

[camena]

So you're not even from a magic place?

You just keep getting thrown around to new places, like that place and this place? That's rough.

[silicone]

Yeah. Just from like... normal old Earth. And I've only been sucked into the one place, thankfully.

[ ????? ]

I've been stuck there for a while. Met some really cool people... hard to miss home sometimes when you're caught up in it all.

[camena]

Huh. I can see that.

It's like—it'd be hard to be too down if you're having a good time somewhere new.

[silicone]

Yeah. It's just... complicated.

We're here now though, so. [ he lifts his arms up ] New rules I guess if we're playing this dumb game.

[camena]

Right. New rules...

[ that's so hateful. ]

But even with the rules laid out, we still don't know enough.

[silicone]

[ big hateful ]

Like what exactly is the "bare minimum" in the game, and the weird rulebook on top of it all...

[camena]

How are we supposed to know who we want on our teams if we don't even know what tasks we're going to be given?

[silicone]

Exactly. It's shady when you can't read the contract before signing it.

[camena]

[ she laughs but it comes out more... tired than amused. ]

But it doesn't matter. No backsies.

[silicone]

Not with death.

... bummer...

[ topper just kind of squeaks sadly. ]

[camena]

Well, I mean... There kind of might be for the death part. Apparently. Supposedly. Maybe.

[ WHO KNOWS. ]

[silicone]

You think we can all make it out somehow?

[camena]

Yeah!

Like, we've gotta try, so. [ lingering on actual doubts isn't helpful. ]

[silicone]

[ there's a tiny chittering noise, because topper seems to agree and scrambles to the top of eiden's shoulder to get a little higher. ]

Fair. Maybe there's a trick to it all, we won't know 'til we try to play a little, I guess.

[camena]

Pure stubbornness can get you a lot farther than you'd think.