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Who: Anyone
When: Day 92, Late Morning
Where: Level 3, by the common area doors
What:

[Remember those insect terrors the recent notice was warning people about? Nova's sitting by the common area doors with one of them draped across his shoulders. It's going for his face!!11

. . . To crawl up the side of it and peer outside from the better vantage point on top of his head. Completely unalarmed, he reaches up to feed it a shard of bone from the thoroughly gnawed pile sitting beside him. He even pets its terrifying insect head while it nibbles eagerly away at it.

Terrifying, am I right?]

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You're just angry that I don't want to do things your way! Like you somehow know better about my relationship with him than I do.

And what do you think my way is?

Stupid hope that somehow everything's gonna work out with fucking rainbows and sunshine for everyone.

I'm not an idiot. I know how things are. His time's getting split between more and more people, and that's just how it is, and I have to fucking deal with it. You need to shut up and let me deal with it.

I'm not trying to take him away from you!

That's not even close to what I'm saying!!

You said his time's getting split more, and you don't like it.

It's a fucking fact that it's getting split! And—what the hell do you want me to do about it? Gut out my feelings again?!

I want you to—[makes a frustrated noise]

I don't know! Not—that. No! But—. . . don't hide it from him! He's not stupid.

You aren't him. You don't get to tell me what to do. I'm handling this my way, and that's it.

I know I'm not him.

[eyes flashing a little]

Then if that's how it is, I'll handle my side of it my way.

Like you were always going to.

[rubbing his eyes hard with the back of his arm]

If that's what you want to believe.

Oh my god—don't you even act offended. Don't you fucking dare! This was always gonna end with you either forcing me to submit or just going ahead with what you wanted yourself. You couldn't just—[cuts off with a frustrated noise]

The only way you'd be happy is if I thanked you for your brilliant fucking guidance and did what you wanted. Don't pretend it was anything else.

I'm not offended! You just have a pretty fucking skewed view of me.

Feels pretty accurate to me.

Yeah, I can tell, because you won't listen to anything I say.

Look, fine, whatever. Do you want me to just leave you alone? Avoid your place? What?

You've already decided you're not leaving me alone, so that's a fucking pointless question. . . . And I'm not gonna ask you to do something that'll just upset Allen.

So congratu-fucking-lations. Do whatever you want.

If I already decided, I wouldn't ask! Look, I'm not that different from Allen—you can trust my nature at least a little.

Aa? Then what was that shit about handling it your way?

I'll do what I have to, but I don't want to hurt you in the process.

. . . [sure doesn't sound like he expects much] Then just don't tell him.

I don't like hiding things from him.

Then what the fuck are you asking me for?

I'm not that selfish . . .

—It's not selfishness! What's telling him gonna do but make him feel guilty? Make him feel like he needs to change shit for me when he'll just end up worrying about you or Link instead? He doesn't fucking need it!