Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

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[sarkazm]

Well, I felt a little better getting it out, probably?

[she's fine being in the line of argument. that's where she likes it.]

[holyspirits]

Probably? You didn't seem to thrive on having to listen.

[sarkazm]

Did that look like just listening to you?

[holyspirits]

I meant that it didn't look like any of them were listening to you too much. [ dry ]

[sarkazm]

Yeah, well. That's on them!

[holyspirits]

I didn't say it wasn't. [ hm ] Just. That I get why you're frustrated.

[sarkazm]

Must've been about as frustrating for you, right? Just watching it.

[holyspirits]

I'm used to watching. [ cryptic, but: ] But yeah. We didn't bring you guys here to suffer.

[sarkazm]

Ooh, mysterious.

[gams your cryptid nature...]

We sure didn't come here for it either!

[holyspirits]

[ mystewy ... ]

I know. I know. Everything's a mess.

[sarkazm]

Then what the hell are we supposed to do about it?

[holyspirits]

The rest of you? Nothing. There's nothing you can do except, I don't know, protect yourself from something we can't even warn you about? [ there's the frustration ] It's stupid.

[sarkazm]

[pulling at her hair a little, one hand threaded into it.]

Yeah, no shit! [it's SO stupid.] I'm not exactly enthused by the thought of just hanging around here waiting for things to change, either.

[holyspirits]

If anyone was, I'd be shocked. [ moving like they are going to grasp her wrist before bringing their hand back down ] We've got an idea what to look for now, at least. That's not much, it's--basically nothing, but if both of those guys had the same issue, it's a bigger point of reference than one person who everyone was half convinced had gone mad on his own.

[sarkazm]

Not exactly on his own.

[look, jq's disease theory made sense at first...

her eyes track that motion, tail flicking, but she doesn't call them out. this time.]

But let me guess, it's a point of reference we can't look into anyway.

[holyspirits]

You know what I mean. If it's a disease, then it couldn't happen to anyone else.

[ they shake their head ]

We can. But what's there for you to do? It's not like there's anything tangible to see besides that stupid tree. I guess you guys could theorize.

[ in a kind of. i know how much you enjoy theorizing tone ]

[sarkazm]

If I have to sit around and theorize I'm seriously going to lose my shit.

[she loooves hypotheses]

[holyspirits]

So, there you go. There's nothing for you to do. Maybe tell people to stop being stupid, but you were already doing that.

[ especially in trial ]

[sarkazm]

...fine. But you better not hold me responsible for anything that happens then!

[leave a sarkaz with nothing to do, and she will make her own trouble.]

[holyspirits]

[ okay now it's their turn to reach and tug lightly at w's hair. ]

Like someone putting love chocolate in muffins? [ the mirth is barely hidden in their tone ]

[sarkazm]

Like that!

[lmao. she'd do it back, but instead there's a second where she's kind of obviously squinting at their glowing outline trying to figure out if they HAVE hair.]

They'll never guess, either.

[holyspirits]

[ they do, but also the likelihood of grabbing their skin trying is very high. suffering is real. ]

Probably not, considering they didn't think twice about eating the muffins.

[sarkazm]

They just went right for it! Well, except the ones I had to... encourage into it.

[holyspirits]

Encourage? [ leaning forward a bit like. :o ]

[sarkazm]

Oh, the doc and I found a couple things poking around last week. One of 'em would supposedly make other people obsessed with something?

Sooooo I tested it out!