tucky | ♻ 012

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I been thinking. I thought it was cool how the Enclosure got programmed the way it did for Bucky's party, so I was wondering if I could do that, too-- not for a party, but for a fireworks show. I don't know if any of the people here have ever been to one, but where I come from, they're real popular in the summer. You go to a big empty field at night, sit on blankets, and just... watch. Maybe bring out a keg of beer or something, I don't know. You think the Enclosure could do that?

I wanted to do it on my birthday, if things are all calmed down. Sometimes these shows can get crazy and loud with people dancing and partying, but I know I ain't in a raucous mood, and I bet I'm not the only one. So maybe a quiet one would be good right now. Something relaxing.

It'd be nice, I think.

[filtered to Dillon, Iris, Letty, Mason, Morgana, and Simon]

Merlin's better. He-- it's real complicated, but he didn't mean that stuff he said. I know that nothing was making him say it, but he had those parasites in him that had him thinking it was the best thing to do, and... he regrets it. He changed his mind.

[She sounds relieved, if just a tiny bit wary. She wasn't affected by the Sha herself, and she still isn't 100% clear on what exactly it was or how it worked-- so while she's ever-trusting and wants to give her warden the benefit of the doubt, it's going to take her a week or so of him being normal for her to fully believe that he really is staying, and he really does want her as his inmate.]

I ain't mad at him. Y'all don't have to be either.

[Mason and Simon, she's looking at you.]

[filtered to Crowley]

Hi.

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Who's H.P. Lovecraft?

He was a novelist. He wrote a lot about fear. Horror stories and such.

So that thing he said about fear could've been fiction.

Well, it wasn't part of a story. Let's call it a learned opinion.

Oh.

... It makes some kind of sense, I guess.

It validates your irrational fear, in any event.

You ain't making fun of me, are you?

No, I'm not making fun of you.

Good. 'Cause I don't think it's all that irrational, actually.

Well, you said it was illogical. Irrational is a synonym for that.

I don't think it's that illogical, either. You said that, not me. I just agreed a little bit, 'cause it kind of it but it kind of isn't, too.

You said fear ain't always a logical thing, in reference to that, it seemed.

Yeah, but... I don't know.

It's logical and unlogical. It can be like that, right?

Like in illogical logic?

It's like I know it's something that probably wouldn't happen, but if it did I would be right to be scared.

Like plane crashes.

Bein' scared of plane crashes and mine collapses, that's a palpable fear, which is different from fear of the unknown. That's called xenophobia and it's a fear of anything beyond a person's comfort zone. I'm not tryin' to change your mind about anything here, just pointin' out the difference.

What about the fear of floating off in space and not getting rescued?

[He cracks a smile.] Again, there's that force field. I'm sure somebody'd lasso you and bring you back down.

But it'd still be scary before that happened, right? And the force field could go down, maybe.

Did you see Iris floatin' around out on deck durin' the zero gee thing? If there was anything to be worried about, I'm sure she would've had a concern.

Yeah, I went out there with her.

I'm not saying I don't believe you, okay? I just think there's some logic to being afraid of it.

Okay.

[He's just going to order another drink rather than go around in any more circles here.]

Yeah.

Okay.

... Hm. I'm done I think. Almost. After this one I've got now.

Oh and you ain't a lightweight. [He doesn't stick his tongue out, but it's kind of implied.]

Said I didn't want to get blacked out, didn't I?

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