[audio; cw: definitely spoilers]

[loopsiedaisy]

Stardust!! I'm going to kill you~

[They very clearly did not mean to send this to everyone, but they've just remembered another form of telepathy and instinctually tried to default to it... and it has messed them up. Oops!!]

[Actual level of murderous intent: unclear...?]

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(2/2)

[dunchies]

Don't... don't say things you don't mean...?

[ Flowey comes to mind, for some reason. What the fuck is this déjà vu. ]

you're right it is funnier

[loopsiedaisy]

I never say things I don't mean, sparky!

[This is so untrue they currently think it's hysterically funny.]

[But also: the murderous urges do seem genuine!]

[But also also: they are coexisting with an intense feeling of "he better still be around!" in a way that is not exclusively spite. Siffrin(?) contains multitudes. Contradictory multitudes.]

[But finally also: Siffrin(?) is now determinedly starting to sit on their emotions in a way that keeps them from continuing to leak into the grumpearls. That's the last bit of those Laios is getting.]

[dunchies]

... Sparky? [ That's a new one! But he has no time to dawdle on that before the onslaught of mixed emotions comes his way.

Just.

Give him a second to recover from that.




Okay. Okay! He's good now! Maybe. He thinks. ]

What did Stardust even do?

[1/2]

[loopsiedaisy]

[...]

[2/2]

[loopsiedaisy]

None of your business!

[They did give an answer to A.B.A which Laios could presumably have overheard, but does that actually explain anything at all...]

[dunchies]

Wh—? [ What is happening. He's so deeply confused by this attitude adjustment. ] I know but... it can be my business? If you need to talk...

[ Don't even get him started on the conversations he's picked up on. Laios knows Siffrin loves jokes, but that much??? ]

[loopsiedaisy]

I'm just fine, sparky! The only one I need to talk to is stardust~

["Talk" to. "Talk" to....]

[Somehow, with the mental communication, it's also possible to tell that they have... de-capitalized Stardust's name(??)]

[dunchies]

But you just said you wanted to kill Stardust!

[ Not conducive to a future conversation! Also, emphatically re-capitalizing their name, by the way. (How did Siffrin even do that???) ]

I don't know them that well. I get it. But if they really did do something to you...

[ He trails off. Perhaps he realizes a bit of the hypocrisy here, not wanting to talk about things that really should be talked about. ]

I'd... I'd want to help.

[1/4]

[loopsiedaisy]

[ ! ]

[2/4]

[loopsiedaisy]

[This hits harder than Courier Six's actual offer to help, maybe because Laios tried to discourage them first. It feels... more personal...?]

[3/4]

[loopsiedaisy]

[...]

[4/4]

[loopsiedaisy]

I don't think you would, sparky. Don't worry about it!

[Their tone is still maximum sparkly (✨✨) but it feels less... sharp? More gentle?]

[They still totally haven't addressed the murder plans again though,]

(1/?)

[dunchies]

[ There's just a feeling of discomfort on the end. Like something crawling under his skin. Like a knot growing tighter in his stomach.

If Siffrin won't talk about it now, then there has to be another way. He can still be there for them. He can go along with it. He can understand.

Then, maybe, he'll be able to pull them back from whatever this all is. All he just needs to do is understand. ]

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[dunchies]

[ But he can't, can he? He can't understand. He never understands. Not really.

Can you really know someone, after only so many months? In world neither of them belong in? He doesn't know where this is coming from. He doesn't even know who he's talking to.

Siffrin's always been so patient with him, so easy to talk to, so genuine, but this— ]

(3/3)

[dunchies]

...

[ They see through him, anyway. ]

It's hard not to worry.

[loopsiedaisy]

Worry about [someone?] something else. You'll thank me for it later!

[dunchies]

[ The line goes quiet, almost like the connection was suddenly cut, until: ]

... Okay, Siffrin.

[ Now it cuts. ]