IC Contact - Duplicity

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[scarrystories]

You got basketball trauma?

[understood]

I wouldn't call it basketball trauma. It actually took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure out what it was supposed to represent, although I see the logic in retrospect.

[scarrystories]

You wanna tell me about it?

[understood]

[ He really doesn't. ]

Well, you see, Andy, I failed to prevent a number of deaths, in a series of events that a whimsically inclined narrator might choose to tie together with basketball as a motif.

[scarrystories]

... I don't see, no.

[understood]

The details really aren't important. Honestly, neither is the basketball. The basketball is incidental.

[scarrystories]

Okay, I don't have to know about the basketball.

[understood]

It's not that I don't want you to know.

[scarrystories]

You don't want to talk about it, it's okay.

[understood]

I don't particularly want to be haunted by an item of sports equipment, either.

[scarrystories]

Is that how it works? It chases us until we talk about it?

[understood]

I don't know, but every time I put it away, it reappears somewhere. That's the only reason I realized it wasn't a perfectly ordinary basketball. At first I thought young Andy must have brought it over.

[scarrystories]

... that happened with the headband too.

[understood]

Mm. I suspected as much.

[scarrystories]

Want me to make tea?

[understood]

That would be nice. Thanks.

[scarrystories]

On it. And if you wanna tell me, I can promise to listen quietly.

[understood]

I don't want to burden you with more tales of violence after the goat incident, Andy.

[scarrystories]

Oh, that wasn't new. I've known about it since I met Grace, the only new thing was the goat.

[understood]

Still, you seemed— understandably disturbed.

[scarrystories]

It's... well, there's a lot of very alarming shit going on there. But I'm okay.

[understood]

... and you'd prefer if I told you?

[scarrystories]

Yeah, I'm always happier with you telling me things.

[understood]

Very well.

[ It'll take him a few moments to gather his thoughts, though. ]

[scarrystories]

[ That's fine, Andy's getting the tea. ]