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[skaterbrain]

So it's kinda coo'. Been hearin' people comin' back an' all. Phones got his butt back in Luceti so now I get ta' punch him wheneva' I want.

But uh.........

......

Been lotsa people goin' home, too. Guess that's coo' too, but...... Well.... I've been thinkin' yanno?

......

....What do people do when they get forgot? I-I mean, peeps from Luceti don't remember this place, right? ....So what'dya do then? When you get forgot?

......


...Nngh, naw, forget it. This is dumb. This is why I ain't suppose to think.

[he flips the book against the bed and flops onto it with a heavy sigh]

Comments

[immamartillo]

It doesn't seem to me like you've got many other options.

[skaterbrain]

......aw man....

Yo, got any tips for a bro trying to break the news?

[immamartillo]

Not really. Just do your best to be direct and honest, I guess. And hope they don't get too mad at you.

1/2

[skaterbrain]

......

Aight.

[skaterbrain]

Hey, thanks, Suits. I'll try my best, yo.

[immamartillo]

Suits..?

Yeah, good luck with that!

[skaterbrain]

Yeah, you.

An' thanks, yo. This ain't no easy stuff to deal wit' and you helped.

[immamartillo]

Oh, actually, my name's Firo. What's yours?

I did? Great!

[skaterbrain]

Name's Beat. Nice to meet ya, Suits.

[immamartillo]

I told you, it's-

[He breaks off. It's not a malicious nickname, so he can deal with it.]

Nice meetin' you too, Beat.

[skaterbrain]

[Yes......fall prey to his nicknames......]

So whatcha do, Suits? Other than, uh, be stuck here.

[immamartillo]

There's not much else to do here, is there? Have you checked out the Battledome? I stop by there a lot. What about you?

[skaterbrain]

Oh yeah! I go skatin' there after punchin' the Noise it makes in the face! It's pretty awesome.

What d'ya fight when you there?

[immamartillo]

Just people, mostly. Sometimes those Third Party guys.

[Somehow fighting replicas of them still doesn't make him feel less guilty for letting one of them get to his friend.]

And you fight the... Noise?

[skaterbrain]

Yeah, I hear you on those TP dudes. Feels good to pound 'em.

'bou the Noise. They're uh...like monsters, I guess, but they ain't really. They go 'round Erasin' Players like me n' the rest of my friends back when we was in the Game.

[immamartillo]

It sure does.

..."Erase"? Is that like... kickin' you outta the game?

[He gets the feeling it might be something worse.]

[skaterbrain]

Uh, yeah. That's one way to say it.

[Erase. Die. Whatev.]

[immamartillo]

One way? And what's the other way to say it?

[skaterbrain]

...You get dead for real.

[immamartillo]

...Oh. Like deader than you?