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Okay, Marcel, I'll repair your design first.

Wait, repair? What does-

Marcel appearing to be zipped out of his original design.
I genuinely did not enjoy that, at all.

Whoa.

Alright, your turn.

Wait wait, I'm not ready to exist, I-

Rimas holding up a finger as though she was about to complain, with a blank expression.
Existing is fine, actually. I don't care anymore.

So, are we all set to start talking?
Where did you two even come from?

Nope. No. We are not set to start talking.
If we're gonna exist, so should you. I'm not, uh... Fond of talking to somebody I can't see.

Haven't you used a phone before?

Yeah. Haven't you gotten a spam call from someone you've never met before?
That's you right now. You're the unwelcome spam call. So get. down. here.


I'm not...
Okay. You know what? That's actually a fair point.

The Author... I guess.
Here I am.

You're joking. You look like that? Like... the weird forest cryptids! The ones Frost used to talk about!

Oh my god, you're right! It even has the weird ears!
You're a... What did Frost call them... A human! You're a human!

I... Wait, how do you know what a human is? Who's Frost?

Cae's lil sibling. Nice kid.
Frost claimed to have seen one and showed us a blurry picture, but we couldn't make out the details, you see.
So then they drew one, and it looked basically like you.
We all thought they were making it up, but Addie saw the picture and said that they're... you're... called humans.
She's been to their planet, Earth... wait, didn't you say earth a little bit ago...?
Wait. You mentioned Jutse summoning Earth and launching nuclear weapons at Mersia??
Is that still going to happen???

No. ... Cae has a sibling? I... Okay, yeah, that can work actually, that...
Oh, that... Oh man. That gives me some pretty great ideas.

You leave Frost alone!

What? I wasn't...
You wanted to talk. Let's talk.


So... What, we all just sit in a circle now?
How are we doing this, exactly?

Good point. One moment.

The Author creates some furniture.
Will this do?

...
Meh. Good enough.

So, where were we? Ah. Right.
Why are you two here? Where did you come from?
Actually, wait. How many years in the future did you come from?