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[wild_magic]

Who: Susan and Lauren
When: sometime. after Susan gets Sans' letter. i'm good at this.
Where: their trailer
What: Susan tells Lauren about their quest

Susan was very pleased about getting a response back that basically amounted to his apology going over well. Sure, they had to actually do something to still get the staff back, but it couldn't be that hard, right? Quests were fun, they did them all the time, and this one might be weird but who cares, it's still something to do.

And so he happily goes inside, letter in hand, the door only barely shutting behind him before he's already talking.

"Lauren, guess what? We have an adventure we have to go on!"

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[mylastchance]

Lauren looks up from the table, where he is probably playing with Stanley.

"What are you talking about?"

[wild_magic]

"Well, I wrote the skeleton guy a letter, the one who has your staff, and he said he would give it back if we do a quest for him!"

[mylastchance]

Stanley can tell this conversation is going to be a while, so she scampers over to another edge of the table and begins sniffing around.

"What?" Lauren asks, only looking more confused thanks to Susan's response.

[wild_magic]

He stops, not wanting to actually go into all the details because it takes too long, but Lauren obviously isn't following.

"I wrote him a letter to say sorry for what you did. And he said he would give back your staff if we get him a shirt."

[mylastchance]

Lauren frowns in distaste as Stanley moves to hide behind a plate.

"You wrote a letter apologizing for me?" Disbelief colors his voice.

[wild_magic]

"Well, yeah, you did some dumb things but I didn't want him to think you were a bad person!"

[mylastchance]

He barely even listens to Susan's response before snapping back at the smaller half-elf.

"You can't apologize for me. I'm not sorry about what I did and you can't tell people I am!"

[wild_magic]

"But you can't just attack people!!"

[mylastchance]

"They aren't people."

[wild_magic]

Ugh, why is Lauren so stupid?

"Then how come they can talk and walk and fight like people?"

[mylastchance]

"Because they've been given false life! That's not a good thing Susan! It's very bad!"

[wild_magic]

"But it isn't their fault, so you can't just try to kill them!"

[mylastchance]

Lauren's lips press into a thin line before he looks away, clearly still upset. He wants to shout back and argue with Susan, but he honestly doesn't have anything to say to that. It wasn't their fault, not necessarily, but still they weren't natural either. Carly's words flash through his mind, sorry you don't have anyone worth coming back for. It was true too, he wouldn't want to come back even if given the option. Not like that.

But clerics too could revive the deceased, was that really much different from the strange circumstances these other beings had found themselves in? He didn't know, he hadn't asked. It didn't matter.

"I don't care. You can't just speak on my behalf without talking to me about it first."

[wild_magic]

"I didn't even say you were sorry, only that I was! I'm sorry you're stupid and don't understand!"

It isn't often that Susan gets mad at his brother, but this is definitely one of those times. He thought Lauren would be happy that he didn't have to talk to anyone to get his staff back, but apparently his brother was too caught up on this dumb skeleton thing to even care about it. He turns around after shouting at him, heading straight back out the door and to the strange forest surrounding everything.

[mylastchance]

Lauren doesn't get up to follow him. He doesn't even know what he'd say if he did. Still, being the overprotective older brother he is he can't just let Susan walk off mad without some form of supervision. He sighs, picking Stanley up and sitting her on the ground outside, asking her to follow his idiot brother and keep an eye out for him. She's more than happy to oblige scampering off in Susan's direction.

[wild_magic]

Susan either doesn't notice or doesn't care about the rat following him, too busy being annoyed at Lauren and angrily walking between the trees. He wishes Lauren wasn't being so stubborn about this. He doesn't care about undead, he doesn't see why Lauren should care so much. Maybe he just wouldn't get Lauren's staff back, see how Lauren feels when he can't cast any spells.

[mylastchance]

Back in the trailer he sighs. He hates being in this weird box home. He wants to be outside where he can breath, but there's no way private outside. There's no private grove for them to make their home in, there's just this stupid 'trailer' and it's choking space. He paces in a small kitchen with it's strange modern appliances. His mind runs through all the strange things he's seen here, the people from different worlds and different times, different kind of magic he cant even hope to understand. Could being undead mean something different somewhere else? Wasn't that possible? He couldn't believe it, or maybe he didn't want to. Just thinking about admitting the possibility that it could be alright made him angry and guilty. If it wasn't for people like him and his teacher he might not have even survived that day.

[wild_magic]

He ends up, unsurprisingly, partway up a tree after a bit, Fluff on one side and Stanley on the other as he just sits there, looking up at the sky. Finally though, after almost an hour, he heads back, animals perched on his shoulders again as he opens the door cautiously. Hopefully Lauren isn't still mad at him...

[mylastchance]

He's not still mad, but he also isn't inside the trailer. He's actually on the roof, laying down and staring up at the sky.

[wild_magic]

Susan, of course, is too short to see him up there, although when he doesn't see him inside he calls for him.

"Lauren?"

[mylastchance]

"Up here!"

[wild_magic]

That's going to be a bit harder to climb than a tree... Why did his brother have to be so much taller than him?

"You should just come down!"

[mylastchance]

He sighs, before rolling over to a crouching position and clambering over the edge of the trailer. He drops to the ground landing on his feet in front of his brother. He frowns, looking slightly uncomfortable.

"Hey."

[wild_magic]

"Hi." Susan doesn't look the least bit uncomfortable, of course, already basically over it. He's just happy to see Lauren again.

"I found a really cool tree. You should see it sometime."

[mylastchance]

Of course Susan's normally cheerful demeanor doesn't do much to make him feel at ease. He looks down, kicking at the ground with his boots.

"Yeah."

[wild_magic]

Susan looks away, too.

"...Are you mad at me?"

[mylastchance]

"No."

[wild_magic]

He glances at him, before away again.

"...Okay. Then, we should go inside." Not because he likes it inside (although it's kind of fun, still, to him), but because it's just the two of them that way. Or four, if you count Fluff and Stanley, but close enough.

[mylastchance]

Lauren just nods. Only looking to Susan briefly before turning around to head inside.

[wild_magic]

Susan follows, going to sit on the bed once he's inside.

"I thought, maybe you wouldn't want to talk to him on your own, but I didn't want you to not have your staff. I'm sorry I made you mad."

[mylastchance]

Lauren looks at him on the bed, before he moves to sit there two.

"No. It's okay. I'm sorry I started shouting at you."

[wild_magic]

"It's okay." He's quiet for a bit before continuing.

"If you don't want to do it, that's okay, too. I know you don't like him... But all he wants is a shirt and I thought it would be fun."

[mylastchance]

Lauren just frowning, running his fingers over the blankets stitching.

"Even if I found whatever he wanted I wouldn't be able to get it back like that."

[wild_magic]

"Why not? He said you could... I can show you, if you want."

[mylastchance]

It's such a complicated feeling, he doesn't have any idea how he can even begin to explain. "I don't want to do anything to help someone like that."

They very thought fills him with a terrible combination of shame, anger, and disgust.

[wild_magic]

"All he wants is a shirt that says 'wolf bread' on it. Does that count as helping...?"

[mylastchance]

He sighs, slumping in his seat. It wasn't really helping, it wasn't like they were helping anyone actually accomplish anything important. It still felt wrong though, like going on this dumb quest somehow meant he was willing to cooperate with monsters. He'd already sort of agreed to that though when he made his agreement.

"I don't know."

[wild_magic]

"Well... We don't have to do it. I just thought I would try to help."

[mylastchance]

"Yeah. I know." He sighs, falling back so he's laying on the bed. It is really comfy, but he wishes he had the sky to stare at instead of this white ceiling. He didn't think he'd love it here, but he didn't think he'd dislike it so much either. He doesn't want to complain about it though. He knows Susan already feels bad about getting them both stuck here. He had to make the most of their time here.

"Okay. Let's do it."

[wild_magic]

"Yeah?" He looks to Lauren, an excited look on his face. It might be a silly quest, but it's still kind of fun to try and do it.

"I don't know where to go though to find one."

[mylastchance]

He rolls his eyes at Susan's excitement, "I guess the costume tent?"

[wild_magic]

"It's not a costume though... But okay, let's see!"

He hasn't checked that out yet, anyway, so it'll be fun.

[mylastchance]

"Why does it need to say wolf bread anyway?"

[wild_magic]

"Well... I drew him a picture, with things that skeletons like. And that he likes. And I guess he likes shirts with words on them that don't make sense and that's what I wrote so now he wants one."

[mylastchance]

"That's weird."

[wild_magic]

"It's supposed to be weird!"