[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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[followthescript]

[He does know the drill. He takes a deep breath in, holds it... his swirling emotions start to settle in his chest. Then, a long and deep exhale, as if to blow all those feelings away.

Pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew.

Okay. Okay. He's fine now. His thoughts are still a bit jittery, but the breathing thing never fails.

Odile is onto them. They need to find a way to convince her it's not what it looks like.]

She said she wanted to talk again in a few days... and that there was something else she wanted to talk about, too. [but what could THAT possibly be???]

[loopsiedaisy]

Something else...? [???]

[...]

[Maybe they can tell Odile they were just pretending to be Siffrin this whole time? Depending on how much she got out of stardust -]

[They think back to when they first ran into her and audibly(? mentally??) cringe. Nope! They don't think that's happening no matter what stardust said!]

[At least they have a few days to figure something out?]

[(famous last words)]

[followthescript]

[The line goes quiet, but he knows Loop Loopfrin(?) is stressing over this. Truly, they are taking turns spiralling over here... how did they manage without eachother's support for this long?

... but this is Odile they're talking about. She's way too smart, and once she catches wind of something she doesn't know how to let it go. It's a terrifying quality in some ways, but also... she's already seen Siffrin at his lowest. Maybe that didn't go perfectly, yeah, but after the dust settled she still wanted him to stay. And when they finally got to talk things through, she knew how to explain everything in a way that made sense. It almost made him feel like everything wasn't his fault. Almost.

And she wanted to see Loop again, too. They all wanted to thank them.

There's an echo of hesitance, but...]

I'm not going to tell her anything you don't want me to, but... maybe it wouldn't be that bad? If she found out.

Neither of us even look like "Siffrin" anymore, so it's not like I have that over you.

[loopsiedaisy]

[...]

[It's true that... last time, when they were planning to tell the party everything, they gave up on it because - because nobody recognized them, and they suddenly couldn't bear to do it. And this time, Odile did recognize them.]

[But it feels safer to be Loop. They know what to expect out of being Loop, mostly. They don't know what to expect out of being Siffrin when there's another Siffrin around already, the one who actually got out of the loops, who got everyone to call them family, even if it was in a loop that didn't stick.]

[That ship's sailed, though. Odile knows them as Siffrin first.]

[They don't know what to do. The Siffrin Urge to just put the problem off for later and then never get to it until utterly cornered is very strong.]

[(This silence feels like the silence you get when someone is hesitating with their mouth open, waiting...)]

[But if Loop was going to say something, eventually, they don't get to it, because this is when the two of them get interrupted.]