28th Recipe [Video. just outside Rock Tunnel]

[cyan_maid]

[When everything went weird, Jane had lost track of Alex, and she's been silent on the network while trying to track the other girl down. It's very possible, after all, that she got sent someplace quite far from Rock Tunnel and hadn't been deposited back. It's possible the tunnel has crap reception.

But when Jane finally emerges with the last member of her Bunnyquest list in hand (who is, by the way, the most ill-tempered Whismur that ever did exist), when she tries one more time to call Alex and the 'gear number isn't connected to anyone anymore...well, she has to accept the inevitable.]

Alex has gone home.

[Back to that - that island, and the ghosts, and the time loops...Jane lets out a defeated sigh, slumping against the outside rocks, her brow furrowed.]

...It's when these things happen that I think...why do I still keep the house around? Why don't I just shove off and travel, if there's no one to come home to? I guess...[She shakes her head.] I don't know. Maybe I keep it in case people return? In case they need a home when they get here, and not adventure all the time?

[Jane is quiet after that, looking out into the middle distance. It's warm out, cloudy but not overly so. There's a nice breeze that ruffles Jane's hair and makes the trees across the water rustle.]

Either way...I, uh, I'll show you all my new rabbity friends once I get back to Goldenrod. It might take me some time to get back there, I...I'd like to rest.

[Before she shuts the feed, Jane mutters to herself,] God dammit, I fucking hate Rock Tunnel...

Comments

[cyan_maid]

Um...well, in my experience, we just try not to make a big deal about it. Worrying about what's "supposed" to happen or what you can't change isn't going to do a lot of good while you're here. But if folks do need to talk it out, I've found that one-on-ones are more manageable than big group info-dumps.

[sociallychallenged]

Makes sense. Guess it varies depending on whether you're dealing with fuckin' high school level drama or massive alien invasions. I don't know how I would have handled knowing about an android uprising a year ago. Better to dispense that information on a personal level.

[cyan_maid]

A-Ah...yeah, that's...um...definitely a delicate sort of subject that you want a calm and thorough discussion about.

[Sometimes she's caught off-guard with how weird other peoples' homes actually are. It's not that such things can't happen, it's that they're going on regardless of her belief in them or not.]

Or, perhaps, if someone hypothetically happened to die and there was no chance of recovery! Things like that.

[sociallychallenged]

I've heard that happens around here.

You ever had a conversation like that?

[If so, he's really sorry for her. No one should have to deal with that sort of discussion. Shit's complicated enough. But it does make him wonder if Cole had shown up, what the fuck would he even tell him?]

[cyan_maid]

Not yet, but it is a thing that is theoretically possible.

[What is Homestuck? We just don't know.]

[sociallychallenged]

I guess it's theoretically possible for all of us, but if you've not had it yet then you're doin' pretty good. Here's hoping the trend keeps up.

[Hank, however, will stumble upon that conversation with someone else like a fool.]

[cyan_maid]

[Hank no]

Cheers to that!