outdistanced | turbo heaven 🌼 richie

[ he nods. ]

Two more, and I still have the bear. I don't know if anyone's found something else that could be useful, but we'll see. [ ... ] I don't think we can keep relying on things like that, though. Just in case it doesn't happen. We can't exactly plan for it.

No, we cannot. Especially since you never know if the clue you're gonna get makes any sense.

They're tools, not deus ex machinas.

Like that weird one with the mask. I'm a little worried about using the bear and reading too much into whatever it points out.

[ he's still salty about that one leading them down the rabbit hole of suspecting yves. ]

[you are so valid and i hate how excited dana was for it]

Or not being able to read it at all. Imagine if Majima didn't let us know what a...what was it again? "QUER" code?

[Shakes his head.]

Anyway. Despite all arguments to the contrary, we do have a lot of good heads to put together. Don't give up hope on us yet.

Something like that. Surely that would defeat the purpose, though.

[ not that heaven cares about things like that, apparently. ]

...I'm just worried we might mess up. We almost did last week.

The possibility is always there, true. But it's not the only possibility. Don't borrow trouble from the future. At least not in too great a quantity.

[He claps a hand to Laurence's shoulder and makes to catch his eye.]

We'll do our best, and we'll do them proud. One way or another.

[Cut to the graveyard booing us as we spiral over a stray ham slice]

[ this sounds like something from a fortune cookie which laurence, for better or worse, does not know about. ]

I'm trying, alright? It's a little hard to stay optimistic when people are dying.

[ even if elysia and zhongli would encourage him to, like always. ]

Oh, believe me. I know. We're hip deep in the shit and boy, it is hard to smell anything else.

...Did you get some food in you at least? I haven't grabbed dinner yet, if you want to come with.

And yet we can't do anything about it until tomorrow.

[ that's one hell of a segue, man. ]

...No. I wasn't feeling hungry after that.

[out one end, in the other]

Well you shouldn't go to bed hungry either. Come on. We can grab something that'll go down easy.

[ he looks reluctant, still, but nods anyway. ]

Just not from the diner.

Oh god no. Absolutely not.

[AGREED. Richie will jerk his thumb over his shoulder back the main drag's way.]

Cafe sound like a good compromise?

[We can handwave from here Ray ;A; our poor boy....rattles him around]

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