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My illusions are only so complex when I'm not watching them. I like to think you'd notice it wasn't real if you tried to talk to it. (As to whether I've done that to you while I was watching, well...)

Would it be more or less stressful to see him and his new family at least once before the wedding?

I always want to touch you to check and then I remember that that wouldn’t actually work anyway.

I do think it’d be a good idea for me to meet them before the wedding.

You should check anyway. I'd want to know if my illusion doesn't live up to the real thing.

That's practical, then. Better to learn now whether it's worth it to have a relationship with them.

I will, then. In the interest of scientific curiosity.

Probably. I still feel a little resentful about it, though. I wish I could be in two places at once.

Tell me what you think. In the interest of scientific curiosity.

Alas, my illusion emitters aren't that good yet. Would it make you feel better to refuse? It wouldn't be a lie to tell him that you already had plans.

I don’t actually feel like I have a choice. […] Or like all the choices are bad, at least. I’ve been trying not to think about it.

Then the only thing to do is to put emotion aside and go with what's most pragmatic. [...] I'm quite dreading going home, to be honest. But the choice has been made and the arrangements are set, and I've also been trying not to think about it.

I'll [...] check ticket prices. It's probably ridiculously expensive at this point anyway.

Have you seen them since December?

Arguably, another great excuse as to why you can't go. Where is he?

No. Normally, they don't care what I do, but I suppose things have changed.

Las Vegas. Not a place I'd spend $800 dollars to go to even if it was to see someone I actually like.

~~You know you don't h~~ What if we just go to Cancun instead?

Oh, you are going to hate it. My illusions only wish they could be such a specially designed hell.

What would I do in Cancun? Watch you swim in the ocean?

I lived there with him for a while when I was little but I don't remember it very well.

You don't know how to swim?

Maybe you'll find it nostalgic. The human mind has a way of holding onto unexpected things.

I know how to swim. I'm just not particularly good at idle activity.

You’re assuming I’m going to go to Vegas even though I have a lot of good reasons not to.

I know that about you. When’s the last time you took a real vacation?

Endless good reasons, but you haven't said yet that you won't.

Well, the station shut down for an entire three months.

I have my credit card information entered on the airline’s website. I just haven’t hit enter yet.

And you took your work laptop with you to the lake house.

What if you flipped a coin?

I take my work laptop everywhere. Going by that incredibly strict definition of a vacation, it was [...] last year, around this time. I was trapped in a log cabin without internet access. I did not relax.

I’m gonna go. I’m just pretending I might not.

I remember. [...] So what would it take for you to relax on a vacation?

If there isn't enough drama while you're there, text me and I'll provide a running count of how many lives I ruin at the Waldinger Family & Friends Thanksgiving Party.

An impossible question. [...] I wouldn't not find it relaxing to watch you swim.

Are you and Crysta competing?

I can’t even really imagine you on a beach.

Sadly, she's supposed to be on her best behaviour for this. So should I, really, but I'll be surrounded by non-Liminals who are unwise to my tricks.

I can buy a pair of shorts. I might even get ones that aren't black.

I also can’t imagine Crysta on her best behavior, but I bet you’ll be able to do plenty of damage on your own. I’m secondhand embarrassed for anyone who sets off your lie detection abilities already.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

It'll be my very first Truth Thanksgiving. My parents have no idea what I'm capable of now.

Take me to a beach, then.

Edited 2023-11-07 06:53 (UTC)

That does sound like a nightmare. [...] I'm sorry. At least it's only 48 hours.

Okay.

Who knows, maybe all they want is the support of their children during a difficult time. Even the Grinch grew a heart. [...] How long are you pretending you won't stay in Vegas for?

~~You don't have to, we're~~ [...] Okay.

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