Yeah. When you graduate from high school, most places have a big ceremony where you sit and listen to some kids give boring speeches about how you've all grown over the last four years and how you'll never forget each other, and then there's more boring speeches from adults about how you're going off into the world to shape the future before you stand in line for a long time to walk across a stage, shake the sweaty hand of a principal or a superintendent or whatever and receive an empty folder that's supposed to have a fancy piece of paper in it but you don't get the paper until weeks later so they can make sure you didn't fail your classes.
[ this is all a bunch of words. ]
...but a lot of families think it's important and treat it as something special for the person who made it.
Yeah, it is. [ and he's blowing it off to get back to the original point. ] But Alex is smart and deserves a chance to finish and then do whatever she wants after that. Hard to graduate if you can't go to class.
I'm sure she'll be grateful for your support. [ help. he kind of laughs because that's not entirely wrong, except he's now wondering who told vash these things.
the question about himself is harder. ]
I should probably finish high school, too. [ probably. ] Haven't thought much about after that.
Yeah, tell me about it. [ it truly does sound like such a stupid word. ] I guess it could be kind of cool if you were prepared for that sort of thing. Some caves are pretty easy to get lost in.
... Makes you wonder who even wrote these, right? Some of them read so serious and then you get to some parts that say "giving up when the going gets tough."
Yeah. The reapers implied they came from somewhere else and they were just given the information. But maybe they were written by more than one person? It'd make sense for all of the inconsistencies.
Yeah, that...probably isn't a whole lot of water in the wild space west. [ say it any other way.
but hm! caves. wild. ]
About the cave exploring. It's...sort of a recent thing? Like. Really, really recent. There was a cave, we went in it, and we went pretty far before ended up somewhere else entirely. [ vague. ]
Well...yeah, okay, that's true? I mean it's a story, I don't know if it's a real place. It's not really where I'm from. Or, if it is, only people that're dead would know about it.
But anyway no we didn't end up in the underworld after we went into the cave. We just wound up on another part of the island and kind of stirred some stuff we probably weren't supposed to.
[ ...well. he's like. still not entirely comfortable explaining anything about it because it feels almost surreal now. plus it was freaky. and bad. and a lot happened.
but vague details might satisfy vash, so he decides to see where this goes. ]
The island was haunted, so...you know. Ghosts.
[ jonas: it wasn't the underworld also jonas: ghosts were there. ]
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Yeah. When you graduate from high school, most places have a big ceremony where you sit and listen to some kids give boring speeches about how you've all grown over the last four years and how you'll never forget each other, and then there's more boring speeches from adults about how you're going off into the world to shape the future before you stand in line for a long time to walk across a stage, shake the sweaty hand of a principal or a superintendent or whatever and receive an empty folder that's supposed to have a fancy piece of paper in it but you don't get the paper until weeks later so they can make sure you didn't fail your classes.
[ this is all a bunch of words. ]
...but a lot of families think it's important and treat it as something special for the person who made it.
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[ REALLY A BUNCH OF WORDS, HONESTLY. ]
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[ on account of being dead. ]
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[ Mini fanfare. ]
What about you?
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the question about himself is harder. ]
I should probably finish high school, too. [ probably. ] Haven't thought much about after that.
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Got a passion of any kind? [ Is it rude to read up someone's profile while they're in front of you. ] "Spelunking?"
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Any idea what that is, or are you reading to see what sticks?
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[ He sees this escape and he'll let him have it, honestly. It was an opening. ]
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It's like...cave exploration. Some people do it as a hobby, so they take their gear and go to these places and explore underground for fun.
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[ THE WORD FOR IT SOUNDS DUMB TO HIM ]
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...those are probably two different things and not tied directly together. [ probably. ]
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[ Whew. ]
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So about the cave exploring! And how getting lost is not related to getting lost in caves.
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Yeah, that...probably isn't a whole lot of water in the wild space west. [ say it any other way.
but hm! caves. wild. ]
About the cave exploring. It's...sort of a recent thing? Like. Really, really recent. There was a cave, we went in it, and we went pretty far before ended up somewhere else entirely. [ vague. ]
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[ CAVES ARE WILD! Never seen one, so he's just... Imagining... A hole. It all comes back to holes. ]
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[ because there's an answer here and he's now trying to figure how much he has to curb toward vash's understanding and what he doesn't. ]
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[ Vash, saying this, incredulous cause science. ]
For this, let's say a cool, weird place underground. Underworld works out!
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But anyway no we didn't end up in the underworld after we went into the cave. We just wound up on another part of the island and kind of stirred some stuff we probably weren't supposed to.
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... Should I ask what kind of trouble?
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but vague details might satisfy vash, so he decides to see where this goes. ]
The island was haunted, so...you know. Ghosts.
[ jonas: it wasn't the underworld
also jonas: ghosts were there. ]
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You know I saw a ghost once.
[ Doesn't even question it. ]
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Oh yeah? What happened then? [ tell him your ghost story vash. ]
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