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[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.

Well, at least there's that.

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

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.]

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?

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.

[ 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?

[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?

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?

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.