to: all, soon after the summoned return from the alternate reality and regain their bearings

[sketchycharacter]

What the fuck

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[sketchycharacter]

I think now is the ideal time to find out

[pathologise]

i've got a cabin and if you give me five minutes not shit alcohol

[sketchycharacter]

I'll be there as soon as I remember how to meditate my way there and not just walk

[pathologise]

good point.

( that part might also take her a hot minute. she'd tried not to go into it too much before this weirdness had happened and now... well her brain's confused.

but eventually, meditation happens, leading her to her very familiar cabin in the perpetual swiss winter. at least it's warm inside and there's alcohol? )

[sketchycharacter]

[Maybe the one thing he actually misses about the giant trip they just emerged from is the ability to just go into the Horizon whenever. It takes Nate longer than he anticipated to slip into meditation mode but it won't be the first time he's been fashionably late.

Once he gets to her domain, he throws the door open without knocking. He's sure she won't mind.]

That. Sucked.

[pathologise]

I'd apologise for the weather but... it's the one good thing I have right now.

( she does at least hold out a glass to him from where she's sitting on the couch. whiskey. she also doubts he means the weather )

That and this.

[sketchycharacter]

Nah it's fine. It's good it's all good.

[All is not in fact good, which she already knows but can probably tell even more by the enthusiasm with which he takes the whiskey and strength with which he flops onto the couch.]

This is great, you're my new best friend for having this.

[pathologise]

It at least tastes like it should. Not sure yet on how the drunk part will go.

( but she'll give it a go. though even if she gets drunk here will she be drunk when she wakes up? though thinking on that might be headache material )

So... here's to forgetting?

[sketchycharacter]

[They will definitely find out. In a place like the Horizon, it could be mind over matter, which increases their chances. Yay.]

Ugh. I did a little too much forgetting during...whatever all that was. Can I settle for making those memories a giant blur and not thinking too hard about them or is that semantics?

[Either way. Clink.]

[pathologise]

Actually, that sounds like a better idea.

( because she nodded all the way through his sentence )

I'd... forgotten everything by the end. My whole life was gone and now... I'm worried I don't remember it all.

[sketchycharacter]

[Thank god she gets it, because he was not going to do a better job of explaining it after Whiskey, Part I.]

I forgot a lot. But I did most of it on purpose, to myself. Feels like shit now that I remember everything I lost.

[If he remembers everything. Thanks for unlocking a new fear, Adrienne.]

[pathologise]

( don't worry, it's also her fear. hence the large whiskey gulp )

I didn't realise I'd forgotten.

( and that huruts her, how easily she'd forgotten everything so precious to her )

I was scared to remember because... the first memories that came back were painful but I... need that pain.

[sketchycharacter]

I knew I'd lost pieces, but...not as much as I did. And not that I chose it.

[Neither option seems like a good one. Both seem pretty bad, actually.]

Yeah. I know what you mean. Hurts like shit, though. [He takes another swallow.] And I feel guilty, as a fun bonus.