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Dave stared at the psychotic grin on Owen's face, the naked hunger in his eyes, and the blood froze in his veins. He took a step back, automatically, heart hammering, stomach twisting. His brain screamed at him to run. "Owen?" he said, his voice shaking. "You all right?" Vix was squabbling...

Dave hesitated as Wishkeeper attacked, Poochyena brain recoiling. He almost ran in there just to spite it, but would Owen want them to intervene? Was this like a thing where he had to defeat his inner demons to be free of them, or something? He waited, tense, and prepared to jump in as...

Mia tilted her head. “Is your world not Cynthian’s world? Do you not have memories from there? I remember Dave’s world. It was another me there but I still remember it.” Maybe Ivy was different. A lot of things in Cibus didn’t work the same way for everyone. “They said we all need to recover...

“When Team Spectrum members die their spirits just go into Diyem. He can’t bring them back from there right now because he’s a Charmander but we’re going to get him the power he needs so he can make them new bodies.” She paused. “Souls don’t exist in my world. Are there souls in yours?”

“Why would you forget her? She’ll only be gone for a little while.” Mia squinted at Ivy.

“No, it’s something on TV.” Did Cynthian’s world have TVs? “Made-up stories. Do you have those?”

“I’m Mia,” she said, watching Ivy eat. After a moment she asked, “Why do you talk like that? You say your name a lot. Like the Pokémon in cartoons.”

“You can buy another one. The God Squad is paying so we can eat as much as we want.” Mia wondered how a familiar could drool. It must just be part of the body goop. She tried to do it herself.

"It's a food. Like the one I have." Mia didn't lift her hotdog or make any move to show it to Ivy, just held it where it was. "They're made with a lot of salt so they trick your brain into wanting them, and then you put sauces on them with even more. Dave likes to give me hotdogs because it's an...

"I'm fine," Mia said. "The hotdog isn't as good as the hotdogs I liked in my world. Does your world have hotdogs?"

Mia tilted her head. "Hello. Are you Cynthian's familiar?" She had never talked to Cynthian before, but Dave had mentioned he came from a world with genetics, and that Roselia worked differently in his world. And then Brisa had said Cynthian was a girl now. But now she was dead, for a while...

Mia sat and ate at the cafeteria. She still couldn't do it for real, but she wanted to anyway, and there was no reason not to, when the God Squad was paying. She'd bought a hotdog. It was not as good as the ones at the hotdog stand Dave usually took her to back home. She sat and ate it slowly...

Of fucking course he was going to make this about Dave. He gritted his teeth. "Well, sometimes your brain just vomits out some fucking nonsense for no reason, all right? People look off the edge of a cliff and automatically imagine jumping, that doesn't mean it's their true feelings, or that...

Dave cocked his head as Owen went into full-on inspirational speech mode, and what was more, it kind of seemed to work. He was kind of impressed, at the same time as he worried Owen was just barking mad this entire time. “Owen,” he said as Wishkeeper was left speechless, “look, why are you...

Dave stared at Wishkeeper. “Owen, what the actual fuck.” He stepped closer. “Look, see, they just talk absolute fucking nonsense. Can’t trust anyone, my ass. All you do is go around befriending literally everyone. This guy thinks he’s your true self and declares people just want you for your...

Dave followed along with the two of them, doubtful. They’d gone quiet now, but Owen seemed restless and tense and Dave had to fight to keep up on his small Poochyena legs. If there was one thing to say for Shadow, at least he wasn’t exactly a domineering presence. Wishkeeper, on the other hand...

A pang of dread jabbed at his stomach. Fuck. What? A memory floated into his head: -- fuck. But she was fine, Diyem said she was fine, she hadn't-- "Hold on, for now?" Owen was asking if someone wanted to come with him to explore the forest. He wasn't going to say yes, but then Wishkeeper was...

Mia frowned. Dave had told her some things about the history of Cibus, something about a previous Dark Matter attacking the Tree of Life, but he had been vague, because Dave didn't think history was very interesting. A lot of other people were talking or yelling and being angry. She stepped...

Mia entered the infirmary, looking around. Bahamut and Puddle were there, having some kind of strange argument. So was Joule, with Maple beside him. And Diyem. She tilted her head. He was a Charmander now. Or looked like one. She walked straight up to him, looking at him intently. "Dave said...

Dave woke with a start and opened his eyes. Eyes. He had a body again, could breathe again. He shuddered as he pushed himself to his feet on the barren purple ground. The memory of feeling his entire being torn apart into atoms left a phantom tingling sensation in his limbs. So this was...