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[throughbamboo]

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[throughbamboo]

[he hums softly and - you know, he still shifts like maybe that will let Gray get even closer]

[doggonemad]

[ it is nice and relaxing.

and if after about fifteen or twenty minutes of this, the fur and claws recede, well. surely that's just a coincidence. ]

[throughbamboo]

[well, now they know for sure how to fix it.

He turns his face down into his hair, murmuring]

I could do this all day with ya.

[doggonemad]

[ murmuring back: ]

Just this?

[throughbamboo]

I like havin' ya this close.

[doggonemad]

. . . 've missed this.

[throughbamboo]

Yeah?

. . . wasn't the same before, eh.

[doggonemad]

Not really.

[throughbamboo]

[a soft, agreeing noise]

It feels . . . more.

I dunno how else to put it.

[doggonemad]

But ya get it now.

[throughbamboo]

Yeah, I get it, bro.

[doggonemad]

[ . . . settles in against him more. ]

Yeah. Ya sure do.

[throughbamboo]

[tangles their legs together, like that will get him even closer. He huffs softly]

Took seein' ya for the first time in 25 years to fuckin' get it.

[doggonemad]

[ god. god. ]

. . . ughhh, okay. Bro. I'm gonna spoil somethin' for ya.

[throughbamboo]

. . . n' what's that?

[doggonemad]

Our timelines are fucked up.

[throughbamboo]

. . .

Haah?

[doggonemad]

See, this is why I wanted ta wait until "Nue" meant somethin' to ya. Explainin' it is openin' a whole friggin' can of worms.

[throughbamboo]

. . . why? Are ya worried I won't believe ya?

[doggonemad]

It's confusin' an' annoyin' to explain.

[throughbamboo]

Well, explain it anyway.

[doggonemad]

Jesus. Okay.

[ strums his fingers on Ore's back as he considers how to explain it. ]

You were at point C. So like . . . yer 48, I think. But at one point, we both ended up in a place. Except I was at point A, which was six years prior to point C. An' point B — you gettin' out of jail — wouldn't be fer another 4 years.

[throughbamboo]

[thunks his head down on top of Gray's, muttering]

This sounds like a fuckin' math problem I'd teach in class.

So - 'cuz of this timeline bullshit, it was only twenty-one years for ya when ya saw me?

[doggonemad]

Mm-hmm. An' fer reasons, when I hit point B an' saw you, I had to act like it was the first time seein' ya in two an' a half decades.

[throughbamboo]

Why would ya have to do that?