🎧 homophonic | pcs | shu lyn o'keefe

[silicone]

no one gets to pick the day they die, but today's as good a day as they come, isn't it?

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wknd 0, friday

[silicone]

Do you think we'll have to sleep in the Ikea?

[ hi shu we're in the ikea and it's just the massive bed section, a sea of a showroom with various bedroom sets on display. his jacket rustles and out pops a tiny head as he takes a drink from a mcdonald's to-go cup. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ i love that he went straight for the bed section of ikea. proud of him. ]

Huh.

Think they'll arrest us spiritually for haunting the beds at night?

[silicone]

Or maybe they'll call an exorcist on us?

[ look he's being useful. finding a place to spend the night! ]

[roseoftexas]

[ hmmmm. ]

Dying twice in one day, huh? Never really thought what that'd be like.

[silicone]

Terrible, probably, so we should avoid it at all cost. Is there even a church around here?

Or Ghostbusters...

[roseoftexas]

Who knows. Probably.

[ there are people here, there's bound to be a church. ]

May it be far enough across this place that by the time the holy water shows up, we're long gone. Amen.

[silicone]

Aaamen.

Are you shopping around or walking off the Ikea cafeteria food?

[roseoftexas]

Lost, probably. Or just wandering.

It's not like I have anywhere pressing to be anymore.

[silicone]

Yeah, I guess no one's waiting up when you're dead, huh?

[roseoftexas]

Probably not. Not if they know you’re dead.

[ … ]

You think we are?

[silicone]

[ his expression goes a little more dour at that. ]

I don't know. I don't want to think we're dead? And If playing this dumb game is the only way we can get back...

I don't like it.

[roseoftexas]

You don't have to like it. If it's the only way out of here, there's not exactly a ton of other options.

[silicone]

Mm. So far, yeah, guess it really is the only one.

[ he still Does Not Like It. this guy is right. ]

What's your name?

[roseoftexas]

Might as well work towards it, and if something better comes up then make a grab for that. That, or take a long nap in Ikea and wait for this to blow ove.r

[ also tempting, honestly. ]

Shu. And yours?

[silicone]

Eiden. Nice to meet you, I guess.

[ a tiny white creature chitters briefly, head leaning dangerously far out of eiden's jacket as he leans to sniff at shu's direction. ]

And he's Topper... a friend.

[roseoftexas]

Circumstances are crap. But sure, nice to meet you.

[ me, yelling TOPPPPPPPEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR. shu on the other hand just. leans down a little to look at this little one closer. ]

… A friend? [ eiden this looks like a pet. ]

[silicone]

[ eiden doesn't lean back, and topper just leans in, giving sniff sniffs before chirping. ]

Yeah. Well, he's a friend's friend, but he ended up with me, so... I'm responsible for getting him home.

[roseoftexas]

[ he looks at eiden. he looks at topper. he does not ask if this means topper is also dead. ]

Ah, so all the more incentive to get back to where you came from. Especially if you ran off with something that isn’t yours.

[silicone]

[ topper just cheeps at shu with a tilt of his head. eiden, meanwhile, is just. looking a little sheepish. he tugs at the leather string around his neck idly. ]

Yeah... yeah, Quincy'll be super upset if I don't get Topper back to him safe and sound.

[ quincy probably is just "..."-ing around. it's fine. ]

It wasn't like I wanted to steal him!

[roseoftexas]

[ hello topper. shu tilts his head at him, but doesn't reach out for him. ]

That your little friend's-- [ how had he phrased it? ]-- friend?

[ hmmmm. ]

[silicone]

Yeah. He lives in the woods, but sometimes stays over at Aster's with us if he feels like it.

[roseoftexas]

[ (eiden voice) my beefy wife just communes with nature sometimes ]

...

Guess that explains how he's befriending the wildlife.

[silicone]

Yeah, I still sometimes don't really understand what Topper's saying, but... we get by.

[ topper chirrups pretty contentedly, smushing himself to eiden's neck like he's reassuring him. ]

He's pretty impressive. All the guys back home are... man.

[roseoftexas]

... You can understand what he's saying?

[ squints at topper. hello? ]

[silicone]

Well, honestly a lot better back in Klein than here. Here... it's not so great. I can only kinda guess.

[ topper just squints at shu. hello? he leans forward and stretches his long little body like sniff sniff sniff from eiden's shoulder. ]