ROSE: Hello mother, Feferi.
ROXY: hi rooosie did NOT hear u come in. damn
KANAYA: Hello
KANAYA: It Was A Harrowing Trip
KANAYA: The Orb Simply Would Not Behave Itself
KANAYA: It Was Melting My Arms As I Lifted It From Its Bed In Our Tallcircle Reposelounge
KANAYA: Its Acrid Acids Ate Through The Sleeves Of The Shirt . . .
ROSE: If you had just let me captchalogue it -
KANAYA: We Will Not Be Discussing That Nor Its Images Deleterious Effects On My Psyche Now Not In Front Of Friends
KANAYA: Worms Willing It Will Never See The Inside Of A Captchalogue Card Ever Again
KANAYA: Thank You For Preparing The Laboratory Roxy
KANAYA: I Hope The Process Of Building It Was Not Similarly Deleterious To Your Psyche
ROXY: oh i did fuckin none of it lol
ROXY: it was mostly fef
KANAYA: Oh Well
KANAYA: In That Case She Did An Excellent Job
ROXY: LMFAO yea its pretty good
KANAYA: Do We Have A Mother Grub Ready
FEFERI: Reedy as one can be.
KANAYA: I Dont Know That Reed-y Works As A Pun Here
FEFERI: W)(ale it's naut like I )(ave ot)(er puns in tow.
KANAYA: . . .
KANAYA: Anyway Do We Have A Mother Grub Reedy
FEFERI: 38D
FEFERI: No!
FEFERI: But we may not need one at all.
KANAYA: What
KANAYA: Is My Teaching About The Brooding Grounds Just Wrong Then
ROSE: I wouldn't be surprised, love. Do you know how difficult it is to find writing on hormone replacement therapy?
ROSE: And we only lived under a nominally not-fascist state.
ROSE: I'm sure it's even more obscured under an openly omnicidal empire.
FEFERI: W)(ale, you could reed wit)( me aboat it some time.
FEFERI: I've been pooling books from various troll coralnies )(ere aboat taking care of your Mot)(er Grub.
FEFERI: Almost everyfin we know aboat troll reproduction was written during t)(e reign of t)(e clampire!
FEFERI: And w)(ile a lot of it is reely useful, a lot of it is so muc)( sea)(orse s)(ip.
FEFERI: Very little actually concerns t)(e biology at )(and.
FEFERI: Almost all of it was in regulating and managing negotiations wit)( jadeblood unions, w)(o controlled almost every brooding ground on-planet.
KANAYA: Yes Much To The Chagrin Of The Imperials I Remember This
FEFERI: Yea)(!!! You know )(ow it is, a)(e)(e)(e. 38)
KANAYA: Do I
FEFERI: W)(ale, *I* remember being told aboat all t)(e demands being made of t)(e empire.
FEFERI: Some truly reediculous stuff, like clamliness standards and recuperacations for mot)(er grubs.
FEFERI: I was always w)(aling to give it to t)(em )(ad I gotten t)(e wind be)(ind my sails to do it. 38/
FEFERI: Anemoneway, all my trolling t)(roug)( reefsearc)( )(as gotten me tangled in various nets of conflicting beeliefs, and I t)(ink t)(is may be t)(e best way to do it.
FEFERI: Troll reproduction is a very clawmplicated sc)(ool of finterest.
FEFERI: And so...