14 [AUDIO]

[likeonacompass]

[North takes a deep breath. He sounds tired and relieved and very, very happy.]

S-So, I found out, day before yesterday. It--It doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't.

Maybe not in my lifetime a-and maybe not even my u-universe, but it doesn't matter anymore. Someday it won't

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[meinxxherz]

Wuh--

Won't e--

Won't exist?

Did...I miss something?

[likeonacompass]

[He sounds so pleased.]

This new girl, R--uhm--Rfena? She's from my w-world's future, and she says Persona Grata stops existing. It's going to fall apart and Pets like me get their own planet and--a-and, well, a lot of bad things happen between those two but it happens so a-all the things they said won't m-matter. Because they won't exist.

[meinxxherz]

Oh.

Oooh.

Guh--Gooood God, North, you--y-you scared me, man.

That's great, thuh-thuh-though! I'm happy for yuh-you.

[likeonacompass]

[Chuckle.]

Y-Yeah, it sounded like--like you misin-interpreted. S-Sorry.

Although I g-guess it did--didn't exist for a while anyway, i-if what people say is true. A-About our worlds being "gone" or...whatever.

[Pause.]

This is b-better to think about, though.

[meinxxherz]

That--th-that's what I thought you meant.

That--that it didn't exist be--because the world didn't anymore or--

be--

Because it...never e-existed.

[There's a beat before the reply ends, where it seems Herz may say something else...but doesn't.]

[likeonacompass]

...Hey, th-that's a weird thought.

[He's quiet for a second, thinking on that. Never existing? It doesn't sound likely, but in this place who knows. The thought will bother him later, but right now he's still riding out the wake of AWESOME from finding out that Pets get to be their own people eventually.]

I--I've got the memories, though! Ex--Existing or not, those are e-enough for me. F-For now, at least.

[meinxxherz]

[Herz gives a forced chuckle.]

Yeah. That--t-that's what I think, to. Ex--exactly.

[Terrible Liar.

[likeonacompass]

...Really?

[You're bad at this.]