Burning Down the House

KANAYA: So What You Are Saying Is That

KANAYA: My Lusus

KANAYA: The One Who Had Cared For Me In My Weakest Moments

KANAYA: Her Being Virgin Was Not Just That She Had Not Yet Produced Grubs

KANAYA: But That She Had Not Yet Been Parasitized By The Matriorb

KANAYA: She Would Have Been Consumed By It

KANAYA: Redefined Into It By Another

KANAYA: If Not Outright Killed And Replaced By The Orbs Thoughts And Feelings

KANAYA: Would

KANAYA: Would It Have Continued To Take Her After She Had Perished

FEFERI: ...

FEFERI: You know, if you continue to knock on t)(e dragon's door, )(e mig)(t just answer.

KANAYA: Yeah

KANAYA: If We Could Avoid That It Would Be Nice

FEFERI: And I t)(ink we can!

KANAYA: This Is Not Settling My Jittering So Please Elaborate

FEFERI: It's buried deep, but after looking t)(roug)( t)(e mods t)(at Rose )(ad installed, including the one that let her place furniture strangely - w)(at was t)(at called again? - I found t)(at Sburb )(as actually always )(ad a roe fincubator in its code.

ROXY: it musta been there for one of our land quests or somethin

ROXY: maybe i used it once or twice and forgotten

ROXY: bc its familiar

ROXY: but not too familiar

FEFERI: It's got climate control and air fintration sheddings, it's got t)(ese cute little nixie tubes...

FEFERI: I'm s)(ore, we can just use t)(at to care for it.

ROSE: Hold on, etymology check.

ROSE: Nixie?

FEFERI: If you visit my fis)(bowl sometimes I'm actually raising some nixies t)(ere!

FEFERI: T)(ey're t)(e ones t)(at look like little princes of t)(e lilypond, wit)( t)(e legs of a toad.

FEFERI: Come )(ang some time, I'd be )(appy as a clam to s)(ow you. 38)

FEFERI: T)(eir )(istory is reely finteresting, t)(e first galvanonauts would slice t)(eir legs off and -

ROSE: We need not follow this path any further.

KANAYA: Um

KANAYA: Are You Certain This Is Safe

KANAYA: It Has Been Many Years And I Would Like To

FEFERI: O)( my cod, *classic* Fussyfangs.

KANAYA: That Is A Deep Cut In Ways Women Have Been Rude To Me

KANAYA: Wow

FEFERI: Aw, I t)(oug)(t you liked it. -Eit)(er way, t)(ere's nofin to fret aboat!

FEFERI: If you just put it )(ere, I'm s)(ore it will all go fin.

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