#mo0no ask

The last thing she wanted to do is make this about herself, her life isn't exactly the brightest, and she didn't want to bring the mood down despite the atmosphere already being slightly gloomy in the first place.

"..and then....."

She's very not sure where to take it from here. She can't remember much of the good things.

*He was a bit disappointed that she couldn’t remember anything. Maybe he actually could’ve distracted himself listening to her stories of others worlds if she’d actually remembered any.*

W3LL TH4T $ @ [[shame on you!]]

*He flinched at the adlib, mentally cursing his old benefactor*

[$#1€!] N0/- SOR4Y. I M3@ N(T TH4T- [[shame on you!]]- [[€^%*]]!1@!

*He pushed up his glasses with his hands, shoving his palms into his eyes. He started again, slowly this time, concentrating.*

TH4T;S. UN[[make your fortune!]]@T E.

…

*He supposed that was fine. He’s probably leave out some… still painful details, maybe string a few lies to make him sound less pathetic than he was, but what was the harm in a few white lies? They wanted to hear a story, and they’d still get a story.*

HAEHAE! U [mite] BE THE 0NLY PERSON TO 4CTUALLY [[handle with care]] WHAT MY [Toy Story 4] IS! [Norman]LLY 1;D HAVE TO [[quality shovels]] IT DOWN TH3Y R THROATS!

*Most of it was just him ranting on about his big shot era, being promised things by a false god over the phone; a false god he seemed to both resent and fear by how he spoke about it.*

BUT I N3ED#D [[exposure]] O;F C0RSE!! TH4T(S WHEN I [[strike gold]] W1T-

*He abruptly cut off right before he got to talking about Tenna. Maybe it was best if he didn’t mention him. Of course, that was his cop out excuse for being too upset about what happened to talk about the forsaken CRT.*

4NY#OW, MY [[god, can you hear me?]] [[daring betrayal]]D M3. LEFT ME TO [[rot in hell a$$#013!!!]]. [[Clipped my wings]] AND [[tied on strings]].

TH4T [[little sponge]] KR1[Krispy Creme] H3LPED ME OUT OF IT. 0N1 Y TO [[#*€^!]] ME OVER IN THE [[our grand finale!]]!!1$$!?

THRU M3 OUT LIKE [[trash heap]]!#^!%

[[B@$T4RD5!!!]]!$-1!! ALL [[f#%c1!&]] TR4T ORS!&#!

*He was breathing heavily, the sound over laced with static until he finally began to calm down again.*

She takes a deep breath and wipes her tears away. Now is not the time to cry!

*Now they were apologizing for crying? Ugh, he wanted to tear his remaining hair(-like feathers) out. Why did everything have to be so damn confusing all the time? Why did people have to be so hard to understand and interpret?!*

*He put his face in one of his hands for a moment, still holding the handpiece of the phone with his other hand. He could feel a headache coming on. The brief thought occurred to him that he wanted to go home, and he scoffed. He hadn’t had a real home for years. “Home” as a word took on a completely different meaning at times. Really, wanting to go home was just a desire to turn the outside world off and curl up in a perceived safe space. Unfortunately, that perceived safe space didn’t exist now that Tenna was gone.*

*Hell, maybe he could bring comfort to this creature just by being someone to talk to. After all, that was what he wanted, right? Maybe… if he just changed the subject?*

W3LL…

"yeah.. i do remember traveling to a world that was a bubble and all around it was just, space. There were so many stars, I wish I could've counted them all- hah. It was calming."

Mo0no stays silent for a moment, trying to recall any other memories that weren't bad ones. Often when she tries to remember something, it ends in rumination and panic. But perhaps this will be different? It's ignorant to think so, but oh well.

I H4VEN; T S3EN STARS. [[The king of only!]] IN [sweet dreams].

*He admits.*

T# 3 D4RK W0RLDS D0N ( T [feacher] A [[real boy!] SKY.