WILL

[foreverphantom]

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w2, thursday

[foreverphantom]

[ i'm at the phoenix dorm, you're at the phoenix dorm, we're at the combination phoenix dorm phoenix dorm ]

...so you got kidnapped now too, I guess.

You healed yourself, right?

[stunwhistle]

[nico is asleep nearby. will is sitting next to him, keeping a protective watch, but he doesn't mind talking as long as they keep their voices down.]

Jolyne and Hung let me use some Remedies. And I used my power a few times, yeah. It'll take a bit, but I should be good as new if I use it steadily over the next couple of days.

[foreverphantom]

Well, at least there's that.

What even happened? How did you guys get turned into little animals?

[stunwhistle]

Gods, I wish I knew. I was a lion practically the whole time I was there. Like, hello? I know my hair's great, but it's not a mane.

[he must be feeling better if he can crack stupid jokes.]

[foreverphantom]

Oh yeah? What animal would you rather have been then? [ GIVE ME WILL'S FURSONA. I DEMAND IT. ]

...what did you even end up doing there?

[stunwhistle]

Human totally counts as an animal! It's on Metazooa and everything.

[he is so stupid.]

...looked around. Met the neighbors. Some of them tried to blow up a house we were in? Then we went to the world's most whacked-out museum.

[foreverphantom]

[ rolls his eyes ] You can't use human, that's a cop-out answer.

...you guys just walked off an attempted bombing and decided to go to a museum like nothing happened?

[stunwhistle]

[he chuckles]

After the day I've had I'm allowed a cop-out!

[anyway.]

Well... not exactly just walked it off, but... we had to keep going? It's not like just staying there in the wreckage would've done us any good. [a beat] It also would not have been the first time we were in an explosion?

[foreverphantom]

Alright, alright. Today, I'll let you off the hook. But we'll be discussing this again later.

...wait, are you saying you got exploded twice while you were there?

[stunwhistle]

Sure, sure.

[a beat.]

...mmmmaybe? I mean. Yeah. There were definitely two explosions, but... uh, I've dealt with explosions back home too? So. You know...

[foreverphantom]

Well, I mean. I figured you and Nico do. But Reigen? No way.

[stunwhistle]

Maybe not. He at least only got blown up one time while we were there. We'd split up when Nico and I got blown up the first time.

[foreverphantom]

Huh. Good for him...I guess. He doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who could deal with getting blown up a lot.

[stunwhistle]

Me either, but he handled the pressure of it all pretty well. We were lucky he was there with us.

[foreverphantom]

Really? Huh. I guess he's full of surprises. I thought you guys would've had to be like chaperoning him or something.

[ sorry for dragging reigen like three times in a row, siz ]

What happened when you guys split up?

[stunwhistle]

Nah, all three of us worked together pretty well.

...we found some notes about some of the villagers who were investigating the weird goings-on. While we were reading them, there was, uh. Someone threw a bomb at the house we were in?

We weren't able to get any answers about why out of them, so we regrouped with Reigen.

[foreverphantom]

You...got bombed by someone who stuck around long enough to be caught by you guys as you came out of the wreckage?

That...sounds stupid.

[stunwhistle]

They were running. We just ran faster.

[foreverphantom]

Oh. I'm guessing they were also one of those tiny animals, then?

[stunwhistle]

Yeah... pretty much everyone there was.

[foreverphantom]

"Pretty much"?

[stunwhistle]

Yeah, there was a woman at the end who was in charge of all the weird stuff that was going on. She was human.

[foreverphantom]

Whoa, really? Weird.

What was she like?

[stunwhistle]

Awful.

[just. makes a face.]

[foreverphantom]

Let me guess: she was behind everything bad that had ever happened in the town?