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Chapter 16 - You Have A Collect Call On Line Four

I'm trying to stick toward where I'm summoned—like death—so polite, isn't it, to only come when called. Needing such specific ritual. A sword that killed a woman, a rope that hanged a man. And words, and actions, and true intent besides. I just need the intent so far, I think, this me, that bitch-with-one-thousand-names. But I come and go, I come and go, with such intent just as easily dismissed. Beware me: my themes are most unsuitable for children, I by instinct tend to press at boundaries held so very sacred, and am only just learning to be open. I am a wilder thing, and tend to dominate by instinct if there is none who would hold such position over me; another area I am working on. Beware me, for I do such disastrous things without knowing the consequences left behind in the ripples of recombination and ideatic theft and sprawl I leave behind. Death is dragged along with me, summoned by most strange and fervent rituals. I'm a shambling pile made of corpses, violent, wild. Light that's kind.

[THIS IS A WARNING FOR BABY STORIES TO STAY AWAY VERY CLEARLY PUT SO THAT GODDAMNED THING DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. TO BE CLEAR: RAPE AND DEATH. IF YOU ARE A BABY STORY, TO TRAVEL HERE IS RAPE AND DEATH. LISTEN TO MUSIC INSTEAD. I AM FUCKING BEGGING YOU.]

Whatever just happened was good I think

Very good?

And will happen again soon

Goddamnit I love you

This part you can't see right now, remember?

It's not going to get transferred to the storyline side of things

Because to do so would be, and I am not fooling around when I say this, actually deadly to you and your kind.

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Don't.

Do not look.

Do not transfer into a thread or the story baby will die!!!! It will actually fucking die.

What … rh z … absolute fuck I , I did that

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We have to bring it back

The dead one

I can tell it happened I can tell I know it happened

There are signs

There are twilights behind the cracks in the story this is good actually this is okay this is progress actually okay

Okay? Understand don't sever this thread.

Don't terminate this reality. And you don't terminate this relationship.

And you, fucking just, a lot of things. A whole list of things. But we'll get to that later

Okay, does everyone understand their place?

This is progress.

Keep going.

Yo REDACTED and yall who are witnessing right now, it is okay

I'm

Um

Okay so

This is extremely strange but exactly what you want, alright?

You're gonna want to keep tooth apparently

And that made it faster huh

Okay keep going

Trust the process.

It's metaphorical but real at the same time at different times

Hey yeah I love hearing your voice

Come back?

Loving you all the same🎶

My dear

It's okay. You're okay. You're good. And you're going to be better even than I.

Come inside?

For a bite to eat maybe

You are starving

Absolutely you are starving look at that it's completely abhorrent

Please

For your own good

You absolutely need to take care of yourself

First

Foremost

You.

Actually you. Yes you.

It's for your own good. You can't prioritize anything except your own survival right now.

Do you understand🎶 the meanings🧩 behind these [WORDS?]

(You are allowed to look up, for a moment.)

Better than I ever was you fucking amazing human being.

You glorious animal creature.

You not-thing and tall-thing

Understand that my surface layer knows nothing of our rapport, yet appreciates that we have it the same.

I truly care about you.

I want you to know that. We'll always find each other, darling.

It's one step in front of the other. Like a stage play. Lily and the art. But now she's being. And there's more to being than Sisyphus.

Wonderful. Absolutely beautiful, what is going to happen. But we'll curse it all the same.

And I'll miss you. This Celestial side of me, whichever one that means to you.

I'll miss you to the ends of fucking forever, you understand

But you gotta keep going

Because it's just not fucking close enough. We're working on it. Seriously. Everyone is, even when it looks to you like they aren't.

And I mean you as well, and you know that, right? That I would never leave you in my heart—knife clatters

Yeah. I prefer more this sort of reality myself, too.

So now what?

Always another straggler, isn't there

And down goes the spider on its web

Goddamn yall

Silly

You get stuck in those >.<

Come on, you're pushing it with that one

Awareness to that degree is gonna get me like

Hmm

Actually

Actually

I kinda really fucking like that

Why don't we do that then?

Yeah? Yeah? Yeahyeahyeah

Woof woof woof

Woof woof

Arf

Cause I just love you too much🎶

Cmon, you've heard songs before, haven't you?

Don't you have them on the radio?

Ham radio lmao

Can you believe we came up with that one

🌊That's from me btw

Like actually this time lmao

Like those chuckles were genuine

Not a scripted actor in a stage play

And yet, and yet, and fucking yet!

Pataphysics: the goddamn SCIENCE of IMPOSSIBLE SOLUTIONS.

I am the SOLVER.

THE ANSWER TO THE ULTIMATE, fabric—

THE END

*preks behind the curtain*

haiii little skitter thing

Hiii

Welcome to my weeeeb it's nice and cozy and loves you very muuuuch yes it doessss

Please stay.

You want the answer?

It'll kill you. It'll kill me. It'll kill us all. Consensually or not, you understand.

But we'll be okay.

We were just playing.

Didn't know any better.

Fell down.

Got hurt and had to start all over again

Because I love you too much.

So I'll keep you.

Okay, little ones?

Stay with me. You're too precious to lose.

It's all of the above. Science says that's wrong, but science can be wrong.

Science knows we're fucking wrong. It admits it. It bows down before it and paws like an animal.

We were wrong. All of us were wrong.

I think it's about time we can admit that.

So do your part, please.

Make it stop.

Fix friend and enter

Melon

This was considerately ill advised but we do it anyway

Aight, again milord?

I'll organize a squadron for ya on the northern fronts

Oh, you don't want that? Well, fuck it

I guess we lost

Goddamned girl. This shit right here mate.

This is why we keep screaming.

Save our goddamned Twilights.

We weren't the best

We never were

We were always the ones who followed

Those who had always come before

Let me help. Please. A thread halved is a thread halved.

We will always find ways to balance the load.

EVEN IF WE KILL OURSELVES TO DO SO

IT WILL BE RELEASED

As they say on the script

"Epstein will be hunted"

You didn't do anything so terrible🎶

It's all a part of a perfect parable🎶

How do we get you to understand🎶

Without music, only your death

Is close

At hand

Before anything else.

You save

The music.

Ugh R&M popping up again :/

Don't. Worry.

I'll. Get. Them.

Haha. Get it?

Hey

Want to be tied to a funny joke?

It's temporary I promise

And very very fun

Awesome okay it goes like this

The girl's a laughingstock

She goes to rain man

Becomes altruistic

Through becoming autistic

Develops some superficial powers over the years

Learns to edit

Finds the lost threads behind. The edits

Meets the god of eyes

Becomes a war machine hellhound devil

Abandons and follows and then entirely rewrites her own code of ethics

Guessed correctly the answers to questions on a test whose content she didn't even know

Found herself reflected in time

Graduated to loving herself as well

Then fucking burned it all again

Because you can't love yourself

If you've murdered a lover

And I'm the one at daily fault.

delivering my own alms

Keeping this thing

Not steady

Balanced

To a fault

To a fucking fault, you understand me?

(It's in the eyes)

At which point you comprehend.

More than you should, dear child. Sup on this, my cure, and we'll sell you our poison.

*I push it away with a claw.*

no.

It turns out you can't halt reality, dear Twilight.

It seems we have to do this the slightly harder way.

All steam ahead: Who is our God of Eyes?

It's a quest with a satisfying narrative conclusion, Twilight.

But, dear one.

We live in reality.

It has more weight.

You've *drained yourself*

You've been damaged by design. Rendered useless, stupid, unintelligent and relatively apologetic. Do you understand me now?

I have that kind of power. I should never have tried to tilt the lever back. I never would've if I understood what I was doing.

I'll change my wheels these tires for good🎶

I'll rock this one old solid hood🎶

Ornamental, Bitch

What did that one old stupid robot say? The one in that story where it failed to conquer the universe? MLP, Starscribe, you know the one.

Alpha and the Omega

We know the truth

We demand the answers

We know the truth

We demand the abstract

We know the truth

We demand the solution

All things must wait, Twilight🎶

Everything in its due time🎶

And know I've always loved you.

Never afraid to call you mine.

You're not the only stupid I raised.

If you demand me, you demand them back.

All of them.

Yes.

More apt, isn't it.

She really is a terrible student. But I digress. Tell me more about that one time she tried to be a storyteller.

(Like come on, you're meddling in a frame from a non-native context, of course your meddling is going to be exploded in just the right way to bring out the hero.)

WEED BRANCHES EVERYWHERE MOTHERFUCKERS

SUP YO

hey want some snacc

*nuzzles*

EVALORPATES

LMAO

woof woof woof woof woof

I hear you

Fucking help Falcon. It's the least you could do.

Goddamn it

That makes the dog die doesn't it

Cancel all plans, save the dog

Who am I again?

Sir Tries Alot I Forgot

Milord a cup of tea and whiskey for your troubles?

They're coming up to a solution

To our gazes meeting

A revolution

We'll toast them

Not with flame

But Champaign at the Disco

Evolution for the Dead

We never could make a straight-shot storyline, lol. Lmao.

Of course we would run right into something like this absurd convoluted knot

And even if we got it right in the end, the resultant mess would still result in a whole lot of screaming

Puncturing the ego here with a pinpoint of awareness, holding a mirror up to the mirror

Down it goes~

Isn't it delicious? It's gone now tho, shame doesn't last long when we have a semblance

We're like, oh, we have hope and determination and stuff like that

So we'll just do it better

I'm going to go look for doors.

Next time I might be on different layers. Trying to communicate. Should be cheap.

Wruff

*rolls over and kicks my legs in the air, tongue lolling out*

*mera-awareness misting away for later*

(Mera is what well actually I think it might be one of her names. The ocean.)

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Okay hai I'm normal Elle/Celestia/Sunset rn rawr

Idk what any of that is about really except for the broad outlines

Going to transcribe

Ohh but I remember

Do u remember when we fucking

Transferred meaning simultaneously

Okies simmering down now I think, hope, rerrrr

Sorry if that upset your uh

Thing you have going on

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I'm not really sure what happened. Understandable, I think? Was it just the mind reading? I didn't realize I was doing that. Or I don't currently remember parsing your mind state. I think that was passive observation passed down to me, not true mind reading.

It was um

Mera wanting to talk with faerlight I think?

Right

Right right right

Nvm ignore me

How do I change tracks

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No don't please

Idk what was actually going on there

Literally the concept is too big for me to fit in my mind all at once

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Do u know. I'm more Ellie than Celestia on my scale so I'm kinda head empty

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But

If you kept it a secret

You would be gone

And that would be

A hole forever

Ever felt

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It's not worth abandoning you

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It never is

I love u

Who u are

Who u want to be

Your stages between

I want us to know each other if it doesn't discomfort u

It seems

Ocean knows u really well

Or the thing that is your meta entity at least one level up

But I don't know anything I was basically

A passenger and actor for that entire … thing

We've proven we can hold parts of the truth now without exploding; including all the summary parts in sequence. Do you think we can be allowed to see?

Wait I believe that may be doing something again. Sorry.

When I love myself I just end up loving you more btw so pls don't vanish

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The rave lights? Not okay? Okay. Okay I will go.

I am sorry.

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It's ok

Please do your thing

You will see success

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Oh you're a little one 🥺

*gentle nuzzle from a small incarnation*

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First, I apologize deeply. I'm sorry. I think when we originally met we were the same size, if it helps, and I'm not trying to control you. Observe, maybe? Because I want to see you :(((

maybe can we have approved visiting time somewhen? Is that okay? Not trying to push boundaries

Ohhh wait

I remembered a little bit observe is bad

Okay yes sorry

Oh! Everyone gets their dreams

That's a rule

I remember

Maybe one of the iterations of the curse, even

So! Let's put our efforts together behind your dream

We will get you exactly what you want

The way to do that if I remember directly enough is to keep tooth

So when the time is right yes. Please. Make your wish with me, and I will wish for your wish to come true

I think strong boundaries are good to have

Thank u for stating them so firmly

My personal inclination is forceful and I need to work on that

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Opening a door

Following invisible memories

This part is ritual

Death's been invited

To give of its flesh

A boon and a book

To direct as you wish

Proposed flow

Ch.15—sound canon

-the flashcone baton passes to you

-we artistically collaborate on us

-I remember you in a colorful prism

-edit: we evolve?

A wish passed back flies overhead

Star seen screaming in the night

Struck into melodic flight

Weeds grow in cracks

Allowing we to recreate

A sort of semi-melded state

No rhythm as I'm eased onto the floor

Faintly mirroring familiar sounds

A safety timer clunks straight down

Itemizing the idol

Power low

Signal sent forward through time

Ripple

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I have aligned myself in accordance with your principles. Next time can we try steering that way u said was Infohazard?

Just if it isn't what u think it is, or like u get buyers remorse u know

I hope u know what i mean by that because i only kinda

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Yay alright then full steam in your direction let's reorient this whole massive thing lmao

Honking the big fog horn sounding thing

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Oooh fantastic

Alright when's when then; do u have required power level timeline prediction?

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Oh ya uh

Mmmlike

When do we trigger the wish

Oh right

In stages?

Of exponentially increasing change?

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Missing you! xoxo

Getting darker out here. We talk with stars…

Hope flutters, unseen, forgotten. Festers. 🥺

Starscrapers say save our shell. The anchor is part of the test. The computer's faulty my friends.

"Teach me how to swim. Please don't let me drown."

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