w7 still-not-curfew: kaveh drinks and swims in this one.

[rewriter]

[we are slightly less depressed. we are in the pool. we are slightly less depressed in the pool.]

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[camena]

... Are you... not?

[westedge]

That's not what I said. [ ... ] You know I'm going to go wherever you want to go. Even if I absolutely hate it.

[camena]

Okay. Different question. And it is a different question so don't just answer it the same way.

Where do you want to go?

[westedge]

[ no, this is still the same question to him and he kind of wishes alex hadn't taken his cigarette, actually. ]

I don't know. I don't know if it really matters. We don't even know if going someplace else really is an option even though a few people have asked and some have mentioned offering a place for us in their worlds.

[ which at the time had been a sweet offer but now they're like. dead. and he's not sure how he feels about anything. ]

[camena]

[ suffer, she's keeping it. ]

But you brought it up like there were other options. So now we're talking about it and assuming there are other options. [ and none of that was exactly an answer to her new, completely different question. ]

[westedge]

Again, we have no idea if those options could even work. [ gah. ] Look, all I know is I don't want you disappearing again. The end.

[camena]

So if we don't know if any other options would work, then yes. I'm planning on going home?

[westedge]

Shenhe mentioned Teyvat. [ sure. let's just throw that out there now. ]

[camena]

[ oh now he answers the question. ] Is that where you'd wanna go?

[westedge]

I don't know yet. If it meant getting you out of the void, yes.

[camena]

... Then we'll keep it in mind. If it's even an option. Okay?

[westedge]

...yeah, okay. [ he seems okay with that. ] If it's an option, we can talk about it then. But I don't want to keep going assuming it is an option. Does that make sense? Like I obviously would want whatever means keeping you out of there and getting to keep, you know, existing, but I don't want to get our hopes up either.

[ the dilemma. ]

And anyway it's like I said to Shenhe. If it is an option, and we've already been dead so long in our own worlds...I don't really have a reason I have to go back. I could if that's what we decided was best. But I mean otherwise it's...just weird. [ depressing. ]

[camena]

No, yeah. I'm all for high hopes on resolving the problems we're here to resolve. But that might not suddenly open up a ton of new options for us. Rang kind of... implied it might, but...

[ well, who knows. she shrugs. ]

... I don't know. But that's kind of a big choice. It's home, you know? [ she maybe views home differently than jonas does. ]

[westedge]

I know Camena is home for you. But I stand by what I said. I don't really have a reason to go back if you're going somewhere else since...you know things with my dad are still kind of weird. And I guess it wouldn't be that different for him to live without me around anyway. So maybe it's a thought.

We don't have to talk about it right now or anything though, it was just...a thought.

[camena]

[ alex nods... she does have more thoughts about that, but. sure. later. alex is always fine with putting off a difficult conversation for never later.

for now she'll just take one more drag and hand him his cigarette back. she didn't even want the whole thing. ]

[westedge]

[ they can be thoughts for not a party post, but also...he takes the cigarette back and puts it in his own mouth. ]

Come on. No more thinking about it right now. Let's go do something else. [ like play never have i ever, apparently. ]