turbo heaven 🌼 marcoh

[outdistanced]

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[boxcar]

You mean work?

[ You mean GET A JOB, LAURENCE? ]

[outdistanced]

Yeah? That's what I said. [ sort of. ] We just have to go through school first.

[boxcar]

It sounds like they really give you what you need there.

[ Even if, in a certain sense, it's like a cage... but it's a seemingly well-kept one. ]

It's good. Better than having to scrape together what you need.

[outdistanced]

They do.

[ who would really need anything else? ]

You've said stuff like that before. Is that really the kind of thing you've had to live with?

[boxcar]

My parents... disappeared, when I was ten. I insisted I could raise my sister by myself. I just could not imagine being apart from her.

So, yeah.

[ More or less. ]

[outdistanced]

Disappeared?

[ hello?? that's scary? ]

...Sorry. It must have been hard to do. Being alone like that.

[boxcar]

I don't remember what happened to them.

[ lol ]

I had my sister to worry about.

[outdistanced]

I don't really remember my parents, either.

[ vel explain families in the tower how does it work ]

Yeah, but having to take care of yourself and your sister all alone? That's huge. Especially for a kid.

[boxcar]

I can't deny it was responsibility.

But it just felt like the obvious answer to me.

[outdistanced]

Maybe for family, it is.

[boxcar]

I do think so.

[ If Venere is his only family, then his entire world is family. ]

Someone takes care of you too, do they not?

[outdistanced]

That’s a little different, though. It’s mostly teachers and Tower staff. I never knew my family.

[boxcar]

...

Do you wish you knew them?

[outdistanced]

I don't know. Maybe sometimes? But I can't miss something I never knew.

[boxcar]

... Family does not always have to be blood. It's whoever looks after you, and you look after them.

[outdistanced]

[ hm. he shakes his head. ]

No, I don't think there's anyone like that besides the instructors. And it's not like we're close - it's just part of their job.

[boxcar]

Doesn't have to be your teachers. Could just be people you like and trust.

[outdistanced]

There's really no one like that. I have friends, but I can't tell them everything. Maybe Ms. Needle, but she and I only started working together recently... I don't know her that well.

[boxcar]

Working together on what?

[ Your school lessons? What do you even learn in there. ]

[outdistanced]

She's been teaching me how to get better at making portals. She's the only other Daphne demiflora I've met.

[boxcar]

Uh...

[ Right, you guys have superpowers...? ]

It is teleportation, right? Daphne is, rare?

[outdistanced]

That's right. I don't know if we're rare, exactly - but if there are others in the Tower, I haven't met them.

[boxcar]

Do the demiflora only live inside the Tower?

[ Or are there more... out there... ]

[outdistanced]

[ this is such an innocent question but it makes him laugh just a tiny bit. ]

No, there's supposed to be a lot more demiflora outside. If I remember right, the Tower's only got like... thirty thousand of us? I don't know, but not every demiflora wants to live there.

[boxcar]

So then, it is kind of like a city specifically for you.

[ Maybe? ]

But if everything is provided, why would you not want to live there?