Second Immolation

[prodigious_mage]

[They had come so quickly.
The house is littered with Palom's last stand: statues, frogs, solid blocks of ice encasing two or three hazmats that still hadn't melted despite the passing of an entire night.  Mia and Canada couldn't defend against them.  Shiraasan had just shot them full of holes and released the gas into the air.  In the end . . . it

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[snackaholictank]

[Shiraasan looks about as annoyed as she usually is. The only difference is her voice is more subdued, oddly enough.]

If you're going to throw things, could you do it a little quieter?

[prodigious_mage]

. . .

No.

[A frog carcass goes splat against the wall.]

[snackaholictank]

[What the hell Palom B|]

Mia's gonna make you clean it all up again.

[prodigious_mage]

No she's not.

[splat]

Our house is wrecked anyway.

[snackaholictank]

Which means all of us are going to have to clean it.

[prodigious_mage]

When all of this stuff is over, it'll go back to the way it was before. Just like the elections.

[snackaholictank]

What if it doesn't? This time they were angry with us.

[prodigious_mage]

They'll just starve us again. I don't think making us clean up is much of a punishment.

[snackaholictank]

It's still more of one than fixing it back up for us.

[prodigious_mage]

They'll probably make all the water go away this time. Stock up on soda later, Shiraa.

[snackaholictank]

They'd probably make that vanish too, but I don't mind getting some just to have.

[prodigious_mage]

. . .

You're awfully calm for having just been killed, you know.

[snackaholictank]

It was going to happen sooner or later. Besides, it didn't hurt as much as when I nearly died the first time.

[prodigious_mage]

That doesn't make it any better! And this hurt way worse than fighting monsters, geez.

[snackaholictank]

It's not as bad as disappearing. That's really slow and painful.

[prodigious_mage]

. . . You've disappeared before?