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[i_love_squats]

[It’s a late night post, a video display of Zack from his chin on down, facing a clear glass bowl with a golden fish idly swimming in lackadaisical circles. He really needs to put more stuff in there, you know. Fake plastic trees. Treasure chests. Something. Gil has to get bored with just those precious rocks given to him from small, kind hands…]

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[velvet_zealot]

Hm...

You won't have to worry about forever.

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[i_love_squats]

...Don't you have some puppies to kick or something?

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[velvet_zealot]

...Like you?

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[i_love_squats]

Trust me, the last thing I am to you is a puppy. And I'll make sure you remember that next time we run into each other.

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[swordofthenorth]

Another dream?

What else do you remember, Zack?

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The Medicine Seller may have something for that injury of yours. How did that happen, I wonder...?

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[i_love_squats]

Nothing, I'm afraid. Just that. There might have been more, but I think I forgot some things when I woke up. Sorry.

[Bad question is bad.]

Just had a run in with someone. Not a big deal. It won't kill me, promise.

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[swordofthenorth]

Hmm...the dream aside, then.

Who did it to you? I want to know.

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[i_love_squats]

[Oh, Isley, Zack is stubborn in addition to prideful.]

It's my fight. I can handle it. Don't worry, okay?

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[looseleafbook]

Hey now, what happened to those lessons I gave you? Change the bandage, man. It's not going to heal right that way.

[He keeps quiet about Scar. He has to. Because a few of his friends are gone too and he's worried.]

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[i_love_squats]

[Aw, man. And here he is, scratching the back of his neck, complete with a nervous little laugh.]

Sorry 'bout that. Guess I've just had a lot on my mind. I'll get to it soon, promise!

[A pause.]

Hey, how've you been recently, anyway?

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[looseleafbook]

Understandable, I tend to get that way myself when work springs up all over the place.

[There's a tired smile that's audible in his voice.] Tired, finally finished with the packs I was making... Bit sick too from my dip in the water a few days ago.

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[i_love_squats]

Work and everything else under the sun. Why can't things just be easy for a bit? Shiva.

[Frowns.] You, ah, weren't dipping in the sea, were you...?

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[thenobledie]

[your dream concerns her. where for a moment, she considers she may not be alone in this place, after all. but no, it must be related to buffy's dream. prophecies are such much better when there is more than one at the same time.]

A swordsman with one hand is not much of one.

[do you want gangrene or something? god.]

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[i_love_squats]

[Don't feel bad; his dreams concern him, too. They always do. Having this whole prophetic dream thing really sucks sometimes.]

Hey! I still have two hands! It's.... just not at a hundred percent yeeeet!

[Note the "YET", you know, 'cause that's important.]

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[thenobledie]

If you allow it to infect enough, you may not have two for long.

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[i_love_squats]

[He wiggles his fingers...or rather twitches them and frowns, grimaces, winces.]

It won't get that bad. Takes more than that to take me out.

[He hopes.]

[impossibly]

Forever might be a long time, but it's a big universe.

[i_love_squats]

Keeps getting bigger and bigger to me every time a new person comes in. Just when I think we're done learning another world exists, and then...poof! Someone else from somewhere else.

[impossibly]

All those little stars.

Can you imagine infinity?

[i_love_squats]

And we're even littler stars on top of the bigger ones.

[He's quiet for a moment, before...] I don't think we're supposed to be able to.