07/26/24 – Second Thoughts

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As Audri was being dragged off, her voice was heard fading off into the distance yelling, "auuuughhhhhh!" Val, upset with herself said, "I'm sorry Audri! I don't know why I got all semantic on you! You're right he... um... can't do this! Even if he's, you know, just about to do it. I mean... sorry!" Val hung her head in shame and said, "I care about you! You're my friend! And this is horrible!" Val yelled at the heavens, "gah! I can be so stupid sometimes. Why was I debating for clarity when I don't even give a crap about clarity?" Val began to cry, "all I care about is that my friend is going to get hurt, and that sucks. And now I've made her feel even more terrible. Why would I behave that way?" Runk, taking notes on an approxiscan and smiling, said, "II don't know, but I'm taking notes."

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One of the worst feelings in the world is powerlessness, but any cake can be frosted with the additional feeling of stupidity.

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As Audri was being dragged off, her voice was heard fading off into the distance yelling, “auuuughhhhhh!” Val, upset with herself said, “I’m sorry Audri! I don’t know why I got all semantic on you! You’re right he… um… can’t do this! Even if he’s, you know, just about to do it. I mean… sorry!” Val hung her head in shame and said, “I care about you! You’re my friend! And this is horrible!” Val yelled at the heavens, “gah! I can be so stupid sometimes. Why was I debating for clarity when I don’t even give a crap about clarity?” Val began to cry, “all I care about is that my friend is going to get hurt, and that sucks. And now I’ve made her feel even more terrible. Why would I behave that way?” Runk, taking notes on an approxiscan and smiling, said, “II don’t know, but I’m taking notes.”
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9 Comments

  1. Mic

    The flip from pedantic, emotionless arguing for a laugh for us, to immediately tearful sorrow feels really abrupt.

    And still, what can she do about it anyway? Literally nothing.

    I don’t know why but these two really aren’t gelling for me.

    1. Max

      Same. To be honest, I’m still waiting for this entire arc to finally “get going” for me – because it has not yet, not in the sense all the previous ones had. Every one of those was about individuals facing a higher goal and their journey of rising (or failing to) meet it. This one so far is just about personal hardship – not any less inconvenient to face, but with loads less epic adventure appeal.

  2. Dr. Moosen McMoose, Chief Spymooster of the Moosad

    Audri comes back with a smile on her face.

    “Did they decide not to flog you?” Val asks.

    Audri says, “Nope. Definitely got flogged.”

    “So why are you smiling?”

    “Turns out that in space, ‘flogging’ means to feed ice cream!”

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