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]

Well, that's simple! I wanted to do it, and I can do it. Sometimes you really don't need a better reason than that.

[starry_forehead]

[He nods.]

That's true. There's a lot of stuff we can do here. Sometimes I think the hard part is deciding between them all.

[cyan_maid]

I mean, when all else fails, you might as well write them all down and pick out of a hat.

[starry_forehead]

Heh, that's something Mabel would say.

Usually after I spent like three days without sleep drawing up graphs and charts of the pros and cons of everything.

[He's slowly getting better at the not overthinking. Slowly.]

[cyan_maid]

That is also a way to go about it, and if at the end of it you feel like you've done something worthwhile, it's...hm, what is it people say nowadays? "Valid"? It's valid.

[starry_forehead]

I'm trying to cut down on the amount of charts at least.

I tend to over complicate things sometimes.

[A lot of the times.]

[cyan_maid]

Well, you're definitely not the only one who does, I promise. I've known some folks to get pretty elaborate once their engines are raring.

[starry_forehead]

Yeah. I mean charts and stuff are super helpful but if I go too far into overthinking then I tend to just uh...make a mess of things.

I think trying to figure out somewhere in the middle would be a good idea. I mean...I like charts.

[cyan_maid]

Maybe have a dedicated notebook for charts and limit yourself to one two-page spread per problem?

[starry_forehead]

I do have a lot of notebooks.....

That might just work.

[cyan_maid]

See? There's always a solution to every problem, even if it happens to need downsizing.