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[restoretherace]

[Inside: ADVENTURES]

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[speakveryclearly]

Heh. I've had my experiences with alcohol and I can't say it's much to my taste. Doesn't really compare to blood. But I wouldn't recommend that particular drink to you.

[piratey]

If it makes you feel better I'm not going to get drunk.

[restoretherace]

You can if you want, I can't stop you, but it does make me feel better.

[piratey]

Trust me, Kanaya. If I wanted to, I would.

[restoretherace]

[She smiles warmly, glows a little brighter.]

It's been too long, hasn't it.

[piratey]

Ten, eleven years for me. The hair's new.

[restoretherace]

[Her eyebrows go up.] A little over nine, I think. But it's probably twelve if you count the time since our timelines diverged. [She taps her own left temple.]

[piratey]

When did that happen, for you?

[restoretherace]

In the veil, before everybody decided all of us being teammates was just too straightforward.

[piratey]

I was still playing the game. Doing something with Tavros...

[now she's trying to remember]

[restoretherace]

[A little twinge of jealously tugs at her lips even god knows how many years later.]

Oh. I wouldn't be able to identify the exact event, I stopped watching entirely a certain amount of time after - that debacle.

[piratey]

Me neither. It was so long ago.

[restoretherace]

I have to say I didn't miss all the fussing about timelines.

[piratey]

You didn't still deal with that? It happened all the time with me.

[restoretherace]

Well, there was a lot of that at first - a couple years... [Her eyes get glassy. These aren't pleasant memories.]

But eventually most of the other trolls weren't around anymore to do any fussing.

is she wearing her necklace or not?

[piratey]

Which is why you abandoned the matriorb idea, I guess.

no violetsy necklace or key necklace; she never received the former and the latter is locked up in

[restoretherace]

[--a safe!

A fact which makes her very sad, something she tries to hide.]

Yes. That and half the trolls who were around at any given time thought a war zone wasn't an appropriate hatching venue, apparently.

I actually meant the white one in her icons!

[piratey]

I guess it depends, right? If you'd raise them like trolls on Alternia with the trials and everytthing, a war zone would be perfect. But if you wouldn't...

That's what I meant by the violetsy one! So no she doesn't have that one

[restoretherace]

That's what my wish would have been - Exsilium is even populated by monsters of a sort that could have been bred into custodial creatures, it was pretty close to the best case scenario for an Alternian analogue.

We never even got to debating that stage, though. Everyone thought it wasn't a safe enough place to raise the mother grub; every time I tried people would always say it was too risky right now, to wait till later. We get bombed sometimes as part of the war, you see.

ohhh okay; it looks white in the icon so I got confused

[piratey]

Ha. You always struck me as one of the ones who'd be for raising new trolls in a completely different way.

[restoretherace]

Everyone always says that for some reason.

[piratey]

Maybe because you usually weren't violent.

[restoretherace]

I wish the trolls who assumed that meant I didn't support tradition would have at least also assumed I didn't live and die for the sake of chainsawing--

[HUFF. Forget about it.] It doesn't matter now, though. I can't very well restore the race alone, now can I.

[piratey]

For the sake of chainsawing what?

[restoretherace]

[She doesn't meet Vriska's eye; this topic makes her warm and fuzzy but sad at the same time]

Oh, this guy I used to know whom an alternate version of myself killed. Justifiably in that timeline, but no one could ever really process that it didn't matter to me and that I didn't want to track him down for homicidal purposes outside of that context.