[ makes more sense than whatever else he'd been thinking up. at least alex resisted saying "was your dad a bad fisherman then, or...." not that he can talk. despite living on the coast his entire life, his own major takeaway from the ocean was "knowing how to swim okay." passably, even.
he glances back, not taking this to be anything besides a normal interaction. (still hot. gonna shelve that for now.)]
You mean here in wherever-the-fuck? [ his nose scrunches while thinking this over for the not-first time. ]
I guess I just woke up here. I was home, then I wasn't. Pretty sure I'm not dead or hallucinating some shit by now, which doesn't leave much else. Maybe we're in some kind of alternate universe.
[ it has to be, because his only other thought is that they're in the core, but he's intimately familiar with that liminal void of a parallel universe. and he would still have psychic powers there — he doesn't have them here, so it's a flop. 0/10. ]
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[ makes more sense than whatever else he'd been thinking up. at least alex resisted saying "was your dad a bad fisherman then, or...." not that he can talk. despite living on the coast his entire life, his own major takeaway from the ocean was "knowing how to swim okay." passably, even.
he glances back, not taking this to be anything besides a normal interaction. (still hot. gonna shelve that for now.)]
You mean here in wherever-the-fuck? [ his nose scrunches while thinking this over for the not-first time. ]
I guess I just woke up here. I was home, then I wasn't. Pretty sure I'm not dead or hallucinating some shit by now, which doesn't leave much else. Maybe we're in some kind of alternate universe.
[ it has to be, because his only other thought is that they're in the core, but he's intimately familiar with that liminal void of a parallel universe. and he would still have psychic powers there — he doesn't have them here, so it's a flop. 0/10. ]