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[curriculum_fictae]

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[curriculum_fictae]

[ Martin similarly waves at the air, instinctively sensing spiderwebs. ]

What do you mean, what else? I don't have any other ideas.

[hijoperdido]

There has to be! There has to be any other reason!

[curriculum_fictae]

...

[ Martin just stays silent, finding a spot to sit. ]

[hijoperdido]

[Bruno watches him, then starts pacing around the room, gathering a rat here or there, setting another one down. It's all nervous, anxious energy, trying to make sense of it all without losing his mind.]

...Why could I see you up there? Up on the tower, I- For a second, I thought I saw you from up there.

[curriculum_fictae]

What?

[ Martin straightens at that, looking at Bruno with alarm. ]

What, d'you mean - you saw me like you were looking down at me? From above?

[hijoperdido]

Yeah - It was weird, and I'm pretty sure I was just seeing things because it was weird and freaky and I was really freaked out-

[curriculum_fictae]

But you definitely saw something. Even if it was - just seeing things.

[ He rubs at his face. There's the full proof of Bruno being an avatar... ]

[hijoperdido]

I-i dunno what I saw. I don't know.

[curriculum_fictae]

You saw me from above. Like the Eye would.

[hijoperdido]

...If that's true, and. And if that's what I have, then.

Th-then to make it stop, I have to. To-t-to blind myself?

[curriculum_fictae]

Yes.

[ Said softly, sympathetically. ]

Trust me. If I knew of any other way, I would tell you.

[hijoperdido]

...Is that what your husband did?

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Something aches in Martin's expression at that. ]

No. We found another way, but it cost everything. You don't want that solution.

[hijoperdido]

['Everything'.

He looks at the crack of his family's family tree wall, hearing them starting to come in. There's a nervous energy out there, no one being sure what exactly is going on anymore.]

...But you're happy now.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Martin is very, very silent indeed for a long moment. ]

We were. Yes. We were - incredibly happy. The months I spent with him were the best of my life.

[hijoperdido]

Were?

[Oh no. What happened? The last time he saw Martin, they were happy together, his vision from when he was a kid was proof enough of that.]

Wa-whuuu-what happened?

[curriculum_fictae]

It-

[ God. It's still fresh. Martin gulps in a breath. ]

His world wasn't ... fully resolved. After a while, things started leaking into the paradise we were living in. More and more over time, until - until we realised he couldn't stay. I told him I didn't care, or that I'd - I'd go back with him at least, but -

[ His voice cracks. ]

One morning, I woke up and he was gone.

[hijoperdido]

Just... gone?

Where'd he go, what happened?

[A great guy like this, his husband must be an idiot to just leave.]

[curriculum_fictae]

He went home. To keep the Fears from escaping it. To make sure they couldn't spread any further.

[ Martin scrubs at his face with a hand. ]

We should have put his eyes out the first instant he came to the place we were in. Then - then maybe we could have stayed for the rest of our lives.

[hijoperdido]

...But they are spreading...

[He looks around again, feeling it creeping in, an uncontrollable force freezing his veins.]

You said last time that you don't know how to leave or go back to that place, but you're saying he found a way?

[curriculum_fictae]

Yeah. There's - there's so many versions of him? Making the same decisions. It might be his world, or it could be a different one.

[ Anyway, he nods a bit. ]

Y-yes. There was - a soft spot in the world? That seemed like we could get through. I don't know if he took it or not, though.

[hijoperdido]

[He wrings his hands again, nervously tugging at a loose thread of his shirt sleeve and looking around.

Is he the cause of this? Probably. It is always his fault.]

...When he left you, did. Did it stop? In the place he left you in.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Poor Bruno. Martin pulls himself together, damn it. ]

Yes. It - it did. Sidereal went back to being peaceful.

[ And desperately, miserably lonely. ]

[hijoperdido]

....Then I should leave.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Martin stiffens at that. ]

I thought - last time, you said you wouldn't. Your family is all here.