“An educational experience?” mumbled Lincoln. “Hablo un poco. Not enough to play Zelda in it, though.” He didn’t bother opening his eyes; a rather large yawn managed to escape from his mouth. “Not much for Halloween, but if there’s some sort of party, I usually figure something out.” They didn’t really celebrate it in Afterlife (monsters were a bit of a sensitive topic for some people there), and he hadn’t much cared for going to the trouble when he’d gotten older. “Guessin’ there’s not gonna be a party this year, what with the ‘alcohol poisoning’?” He put the last two words in tired air quotes, slow with a lack of effort. “’s a shame. I could pull off Link.”
“Haven’t had one of those in years. This was more of a ‘let’s see how bad I can fuck this up’ situation. Spoiler alert: very,” Skye murmured, preoccupation with the game keeping her from commenting on how he was still awake. She could tell he was tired, though. Tired and putting a significant effort into staying up. “You could. The mental image of you running around with potions might just be the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
She kept poking at the buttons then, suddenly silent, but her mind kept flashing back to his air quotes, desperately screaming for her to stop ignoring the topic. It wasn’t as if he was forcing the truth out of her, if anything, he’d been shockingly (get it) respectful. It’s that she wanted to explain for her sake, voice her concerns before she combusted. She sucked in a sharp breath, making sure she’d sound casual enough for the completely non-casual things she was about to say, “I fucking hate it. Keeping secrets because I’m suddenly privileged. I’m going against everything I’ve ever stood for, which -” pause, filled with exasperation over how difficult it was to explain, ”is slowly stripping me of the identity I’ve made for myself over the years. The ‘people deserve to know’ persona is all have left and I’m not even that anymore.” Talk about heavy. “So, yeah. I’d love to get a megaphone or do an interpretative dance for the entire campus and all that, but I can’t. If only this mess had a walkthrough I could skip. Lo siento.”
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