CATCHALL- SASAZUKA

[alteracion]

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[dotcom]

Then that's probably why it won't happen.

[ can't get what you want!!

anyway, i'm yeeting a memory (stop at 6:47).

sasazuka just blinks in surprise, but he doesn't look too bothered after. ]

[alteracion]

Was that... yours?

[ grace is. a little more weirded out, though not so much at the content of the memory so much as. the memory. itself existing! that's weird. seeing things is weird!!! ]

[dotcom]

Yeah...

[ he frowns, thinking it over. ]

This is problematic.

[alteracion]

Don't just say "this is problematic" like it's a mild inconvenience! Why did it happen? Is it just you?

[ im glad you asked grace because now you get to share white boy problems to takeru. did i pick this at random? yes. it's fine. ]

[dotcom]

[ see, he is aware this is probably a very serious and important moment, but also there is something about this weird guy yelling at a talking cat that is just

so

fucking absurd

that all he can do is stare blankly after ]

[alteracion]

[ absolutely why i picked it. grace is just. staring blankly.

thank god simon was the one to air his problems in that memory and she doesn't have to be truly perceived. except for the bits where she was being honest with him whatever ]

I hate this.

[dotcom]

I see.

[ he just nods

it is so obvious that he's judging. but it's fine. ]

[alteracion]

[ it's not her backstory he can judge simon's abandonment issues from a cat but. she has to ask: ]

What?

[dotcom]

Weird.

[ just

weird ]

[alteracion]

Oh, yeah. Denizens freaked me out when I first got onto the train too. But the cat's at least, you know, a cat. Not the weirdest thing in there.

[ there was also a gorilla with tubas in there. ]

[dotcom]

So, that was the train?

... you've been on it for a while then.

[alteracion]

Sure. Time's a little hard to keep track of, but... it's been about eight or nine years now?

[ so. so casual ]

[dotcom]

[ why would a 11 year old go on a weird magic train, grace ]

How long were you with the cat kid?

[alteracion]

[ haha, yeah, why would they! ]

Oh, I've known him since he was ten. I found him when the cat left. Simon really would've died if I hadn't been there.

[ it's not braggy or sad, just kind of ... idle? sometimes kids are left to die by talking cats on a magic train. it's fine. ]

[dotcom]

And you'd been together since.

[ he glances at her arm. ]

[alteracion]

Yeah. [ she's wearing her gloves still no number for you ] He's my best friend.

[ if it sounds a little hesitant well it's not so fuck you ]

[dotcom]

You were right when you said the train was... well. More than just a train.

[alteracion]

Obviously. I'm always right. [ it's light in tone, but she shrugs ] It's special. I don't know how it was made or why, but it's pretty cool.

[ she just talked about a 10 year old nearly dying ]

[dotcom]

Are some people native to it? Or does everyone just go on it one day?

[alteracion]

No, passengers don't come from the train. It's only denizens, like the cat. Or ghoms, which are these... awful huge cockroach dog things that try and attack everything they see. They're mostly found outside the train cars.

[dotcom]

Outside?

[ explain the outside ]

[alteracion]

You know how a normal train works, right? Not the subway or something like that. [ underground trains are... different. she gestures as she speaks ] To go between cars, there's a railing that leads to the next one. Outside of that is ... we're not sure where the train is running, exactly. It's a wasteland, and the only thing in it are the ghoms. If you don't linger in between cars, you're usually alright.

[dotcom]

So I'm guessing people have been lost trying to go between the cars then.

[ sounds like a shit way to go ]

[alteracion]

Yeah. Or inside the cars themselves. The denizens aren't always "friendly".

[ quotation marks. ]

[dotcom]

If I wasn't here, it would be really hard to imagine any of that.