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[squirt]

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[squirt]

[ it could be that exact one ]

Do they? [ is that a saying... very briefly, there's a tiny spark of happiness at that. ] I guess it makes sense.

[roseoftexas]

Something about the waves, I think.

[ … ]

Maybe we’ll get a beach next week, and then we can all get a bit of mental relaxation in all this.

[squirt]

I don't think we will.

[ his weariness doubles as he says it, though there's a sort of sour anger beneath it too, weak but rumbling. ]

Even if we get a beach—this isn't going to get better.

[roseoftexas]

‘Course it won’t.

[ blunt. ]

But eventually you have to start grabbing anything you can get, or you’ll go mad.

[squirt]

[ something about that bluntness just mostly extinguishes his anger, like a fire deprived of oxygen, too tired to sustain itself. ]

...That's what I thought.

But maybe I was just distracting myself. [ maybe it's the bad parts of this that he needs to spend more time thinking about. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ watches this dolphin deflate, i guess. ]

... Balance it.

I don't think you can get through with naive beliefs and thinking everything will be okay, but you'll just sink if you assume nothing good's ever gonna happen again.