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[curriculum_fictae]

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[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.

[hijoperdido]

I wouldn't before because I wasn't hurting them staying back here. But - but if I'm hurting them now like this...

[curriculum_fictae]

...

Oh. Oh, Bruno...

[hijoperdido]

I just- I need to know. I need to know if it's me doing this. Because if it is, then- Then I can't stay.

[curriculum_fictae]

R-right. Let's try to find that out then.

And if it is ... come back to Sidereal with me?

[hijoperdido]

...Wouldn't I risk bringing it there?

[curriculum_fictae]

Maybe. But. Where else could you go?

[hijoperdido]

I-i don't know. I don't know what's outside this encanto, and I only have the visions of your bakery for somewhere else.

[curriculum_fictae]

Then we have to go there, and figure it out from there.

[ A pause. And a flicker of hope. ]

Unless ... unless there's a way to my husband's world from here.

[hijoperdido]

Maybe? I dunno. I don't know your stuff or your gods or your world, I just know that it all started going wrong in the last month and- And I don't know how to fix it.

[curriculum_fictae]

I - I know. I know.

[ He reaches for Bruno's shoulder. ]

We'll figure something out. Even if it means leaving.

[hijoperdido]

[He almost goes stiff just before the touch lands. Looks up at Martin, then out to where his family is settling down for dinner.]

Leaving them...

[curriculum_fictae]

... I know. We'll try everything else first.

[hijoperdido]

[Bruno gives a big inelegant sniff and wipes at his nose, looking around his room at all his rat-friends.]

Right... I'm- Look, I'm sorry you got dragged back here. I-i know my family stresses you out.

[curriculum_fictae]

N-no, it's - it's fine? It's good.

[ Martin reaches out to pet a rat-friend. ]

I've been um. Rather lonely recently, so.

[hijoperdido]

Oh.

[Well.. That's just genuinely sad. Martin is such a lovely huggable guy, so it's kid of... really sad that Martin's lonely. He shouldn't be.]

I'm sorry.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ He shouldn't be, and yet. He swipes at his face but manages a smile. ]

I'm just - just saying. Seeing you again? It's nice. I'm glad this is happening.

[hijoperdido]

[All he can bring himself to do for now is nod, try to keep the anxious shakes from being too visible.]

Right... Right, oaky so. So what now?

[curriculum_fictae]

Wait, maybe. See if - if something presents itself.