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I didn't get hurt at all, promise.

Let's see... So I went into a room in our cabin, but for some reason the room had a path of stars leading up to it where it hadn't before. And when I went in, the path looked like it was going up into the clouds, so I started following it.

Following so far?

[ ... ]

I'm following. But I am also insanely confused about how a room goes to the clouds.

Me too! But it did and I've decided not to think about the physics involved.

So I kept going and this little ball of light was kind of flying around me and then went off in front of me, so I followed after it... But I had this weird sense I was being watched while I did? By the stars, maybe. And it seemed like whoever or whatever was watching was talking, but whenever I tried to talk to them, they just went quiet.

[ fair point you think the witch would also just answer magick but pfft ]

Did you manage to find a way to talk with them?

Nah. The light thing - maybe light person, we'll get to that in a second - stopped in front of me like they were waiting, so I went forward and got to this patch of grass? In the clouds.

[ light person... ]

Grass in clouds. Okay, did it at least match aesthetically? I guess it had to be significant in some way to be tehre.

The grass was almost, like, see through... So I guess that matches clouds, sure. And there were these eight towers also made of light, surrounding a bonfire.

Eight towers of light doesn't sound like a coincidence.

[ He thinks about the showmaster's explanation and the statements of there must always be 8 families, anyway, ] Was there something special about the bonfire?

Kind of, but I'll get there in a second.

So - talking to whoever was watching early didn't work, but I tried to talk to the light, and it started leading me to this big table with a bunch of food. We worked out this thing where it would roll over once for yes and two for no, and I asked if the food was safe since they were leading me to it, and they said yes. I figured it was a sign to eat some, so I took some of the fruit, and - it gave me a really nice feeling. I don't know how to describe it.

[ It's a good thing that they're alike in the Stupidest ways because whatever instict he has to be sus is like.... Nah, following a weird sentient floating light is legit. What could go wrong. ]

[ So he nods, like this is a perfectly reasonable thing to have done and not potential poison. ]

It sounds like it was a friend.

Yeah! They seemed really nice.

So after that I went back to the towers of light, and I got the idea that they were sentient but didn't want to talk. Touching them felt, like - for whatever reason, I could tell they were really powerful.

[ hmmmm........ thought to consider there. ]

So. If you were able to talk to them it's a "not yet" kind of thing at best.

Yeah. Since the fruit made me feel really happy I picked some of it up and dropped it into one of them, but it just made them all go to the table, not to talk to me.

So they were all either really hungry or really needed a happiness boost, or both.

If you couldn't talk to them and the... light spirit guy was kind of guide, did you to talk to anyone? Was it the bonfire?

I did, but that's for later, too. So - I asked the light if it knew who they were and it rolled over, like, tons of times, so it really didn't know.

So I didn't know what to do next, since I'd looked everywhere, and I asked the light if it knew.

[...]

Remember that I said I didn't get hurt at all and please don't freak out at the next part.

[ ... ]

[ he is not NOT freaking out ]

I'm making 0 promises right now. You're a very ominous storyteller.

It's not ominous! It was really nice to me the entire time and I asked it where to go and it flew into the bonfire so I walked into the bonfire after it okay fun story vision time now what's first—

[ You know what's weird about being onboard with weird magic lights doing things like

Making you eat fruit

Sometimes you have to jump off-board ]

[ Sometimes you have to jump overboard so hard and so fast all you can do is stare dumbfoundedly at your boyfriend

Like he grew two heads

Like you're not fully registering the rest of that statement. ]

[ BECAUSE SURE FRUIT COULD HAVE BEEN POISON MAYBE BUT

FRIENDLY(?) LIGHT TELLS YOU TO -

TELLS YOU TO - ]

[ HE'S GOT THIS. HE IS JUST TRYING TO COMPREHEND HIS OWN THOUGHTS. and also like tell himself it's not what he thinks it is ]

[ but it is exactly what he thinks it is. ]

[ he is trying to so hard not to freak out because gingham is right he is not injured and yet - ]

[ YET. That is also meaningless around here??? And he tries to take a deep breath and then he moves forward worried and not angry - concern, it's concern - and places a hand on Gingham's arm.

Maybe it's to make sure he's really there maybe he just needs it. ]

We're staying here. You did not jump into the bonfire after it.

[ it is not a question it is more of a yelp of panic because he does, in fact, no that answer. ]

—Okay yep not finishing the story is a valid decision.

Uh-uh. You can't lead into that and not finish.

But you asked to stay at this point—?

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