The Curiosity Voyage From HELL.

Roads I traveled I must leave/For I’ve turned the final bend:

Weep not empty tears but grieve/As the road comes to an end.

It’s so easy not to try; let the world go drifting by,

If you never say hello/You won’t have to say goodbye.

Then he heard his name, and his attention bounced straight to the two with a side of wide eyes. Still sucking his lips inward which made his expression all the more ridiculous. It dropped to something more natural, likely not soon enough for either Ala or little Teddy to catch. Dustin smiled at Theodora and gave her a wave. "Nice to meetchya, lil' tadpole! Is it Teddy or Theodora?"

Looking up at Ala then nodding with a quick, "Yeah! Yeah," Dustin turned to do as she requested of him. It gave him a moment in the quiet to process what he's learning about his crush. Not a long enough one to decide whether he was ready to be a proper caretaker to a partner's kid, but long enough that the surprise drop of information (maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise?) wasn't as flooring.

Jesus Christ. This kid’s gotta get his ego in check. It’s his tone. Right?

“I’ll just leave the room. Go build another nuclear-powered treehouse in the woods or something.” Not to point out the first one had not worked as planned; Elie didn’t need to know that. “I bet I could handle the book better’n either of you.” Not to point out that he’d tried to several times already, and could never get past the first encounter with the topiary animals.

The little brother jut out his jaw and his posture ruffled up like a disgruntled penguin. “So I don’t need to kick his ass? I mean, I kinda do anyway, he owes me $2.50 now and he still insists he already paid me back.”

“You never know! My taste buds mighta changed their minds; you know you can develop new tastes and even like, allergies ‘cos of how the cells change and replace over time, so like, one of these days I might hate tomatoes.”

“But yeah, thanks Elie.”

times like this is when elie is really glad she never let her mother’s mistreatment effect her relationship with her younger brother. the two full of sarcastic and wild banter. “another? when did you build the first one?” she chuckles and raised a brow. “do we really want to make that bet? i could use a good competition.”

elie shook her head. “no ass kicking needed. keith is….well keith.” that’s the nicest way she could go about it. keith wasn’t a bad guy per say, just thought if he used enough pick up lines that elie might give him a chance. she was not but whatever. “although, i think you should kick his ass for your money back.” she laughed. “i’d honestly pay to watch that one go down.”

He nodded his head side to side with a scrunched nose. "That's a good way of putting it. There should be a 'Keith' section in the dictionary and thesaurus." In all honesty Dustin wasn't supremely fond of the guy, though most of the time he just found him annoying at worst. But he didn't take kindly to people harassing his sister. There was a list.

But while resting in the hay, he began to feel worse. Anxious, wary. Like someone was creeping up from behind him with a knife. Or a lit torch. As Samuel ventured into the stall, the bleeding flowers turned his way slowly, watching with toothy mouths. Salivating. The vines and roots groaned against their grips and emitted low, crackling sounds like quiet growls.

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