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[saveyourserpent]

[Liquid sounds really, really frustrated here. He's not having a good festive time.]

I could handle the tanglesnakes. Sure, they got all up in my things, but that happens when you decide to live in a tree. Fine. Piss off the local wildlife, why don't we. Fine. I get it.

But did they really bloody have to turn this into that... party planet all over again? I'd been flirting with random passersby for entirely too long before I found out what was happening.

I can't sleep in my own bloody home because apparently the plants are drugging us. Isn't that exciting?

Maybe don't hang out around R3 if you don't want to embarrass yourself.

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[warandpeace]

[Miller's own hussy history is making him consider how he probably wouldn't have even noticed conditional flirting ten years ago.]

Concern that you picked up company you wouldn't have wanted later. Glad to hear it's only your pride, no offense.

[saveyourserpent]

[Luckily, Liquid's always been too on the 'angry and busy' side to do a ton in the way of flirting in the first place.]

None taken. Worry not, no one's gained access to my important secrets or my vault of gold.

[warandpeace]

I would be more worried about-

[Having sex with someone under the coercion of a strange atmosphere? No wait-]

Come to think of it I would be more worried about the important secrets.

[Sure neither are great but, you know, priorities.]

[saveyourserpent]

[Well, he'd certainly covered that one a while back. Good thing it hadn't been all that regretful.]

Bit of a worrisome concept, hm? But don't worry. Everything turned out alright on that front.

Now if I could just bloody get back to things without all that...

[warandpeace]

We should just be prepared for it to happen regardless. I've already written personal reminders to myself so I can remember who to contact if my memory is fractured.

As seems to happen more than I'd like.

[At home, too. Actually at home more than here.]

[saveyourserpent]

Smart. The mind is easily messed with, yes. [He knows that all too well, from brainwashing to Mantis's abilities to whatever else.]

This was... unpleasant, yes, but at least it wasn't quite like some of the other things. I suppose we can take something resembling positivity out of it.

[warandpeace]

Sometimes it doesn't even take an outside force to do it.

[Mantis is definitely his own thing. Who knows what space diseases out their can wreak their own havoc.]

I never expected you to be the positive thinker.

[saveyourserpent]

That's all too true as well. And sometimes the outside force and the inside force like to collude.

[He snorts out a small laugh.]

Neither did I. Maybe all this space has been something resembling good for me, hm?

[warandpeace]

Yeah.

Guess it does for me, too.

[As much as he blatantly distrusts it. Somehow it's made them considerably less fucked up.] Maybe it's the lack of anyone targeting use specifically.

[He's not even locking this portion of the conversation.]

[saveyourserpent]

It's... interesting, how far removed we are from how things were back home. Suppose no one ever thought space to be a factor.

[He hasn't been as... angry as he usually was, even when he's angry. Who knew this vacation was all he needed?]

Of course... I do find being alive again to be a little on the helpful side.

[warandpeace]

Good thing you're not going to end up going through the same mess here.

[Says the guy he killed.]

I'm a little tired of infections, whether it be viral or parasitic. Better to get rid of yet another.

[saveyourserpent]

Yes, I've never felt better. It's been a massive weight off my shoulders, not having to worry about going through that all over again.

[The first time was bad enough. A second time would have been... excessive.]

Let's just hope this place stops with that sort of thing.

[warandpeace]

I don't think any place will stop. Not for us. But "better than usual" isn't so bad. [He'll take it.]

[saveyourserpent]

Yes, yes, wishful thinking and everything. I suppose we'll see. But it has been... something, at least. [He'll take it too.]