carry that weight.

[pm] So your heart got stolen and eaten by a nobody? Well I suppose you'd think that. You like to make every single aspect of yourself sound as pathetic as you possibly can.

[pm] Who or what you are says nothing about what I am. I do not need you to be something powerful for me to feel good about myself. I won't feel good about what happened, no matter what you are. A coward attacked me and carved my chest open. There is no version of this story that will make me feel good.

[pm] Quite a few things for sure, though there's still enough humans around here to keep things plausible enough. And people don't like it when they don't understand things, so they'll attempt to make it make sense, which helps our case a lot.

[pm] Guess that's true. People want an easy way of explaining things. The truth isn't usually easy.

Oh I've been looking for one. I wanted to experiment on something like that, with a new hobby I'm picking up. I'm working on embossing and debossing in leather.

What does that mean? [user is actually even more interested in giving the wallet to someone who might destroy it.]

Ah. I see. Think they read this? You giving away your plan. Why do y [...] Pissed you off first?

Hope they do. It'll piss them off more if they know what I'm doing. [...] Something like that.

Can't be that ni If it's nice, why not keep it? Put nicer shit in.

Honestly? Trying to piss someone off, and I think it'll piss them off more if I give it away.

That is a strange catch. What if I don't like the wallet? What if I want to donate it to a charity shop after five years or I meet someone who is in serious need of a new wallet? Are there any consequences to giving the wallet away? [...] Is there anything in the wallet?

Then you can give it back to me, and I can find someone else to give it to. [...] Do you want there to be something in the wallet?

[pm] They wrote legends about my species since the dawn of humanity. I look forward to the 1 page pamphlet they'll write about your 5-in-1 scented soggy self on a toilet paper sheet.

[pm] Legends about your species are not the same as legends about you. I think you are nothing. No one. I think this is why you're alone in a town far away from where you belong. You really think someone is going to write legends about you getting your wallet stolen and then trying to get it back?

[pm] Alright, so I have to take samples to get an idea of how old everything is, and then there's a large process of filing and annotating everything. Generally we take a look at the local archives to see if there were similar items retrieved around here. But more importantly, we take a look at what we find, and we get a better idea of how people used to live on that coast. There's a lot you can learn from the past, I'm sure you know that.

[pm] Yeah. Definitely a lot to learn from the past. Probably some [...] interesting shit that might come up, in this town. How much supernatural bullshit do you dig up here? You [...] have trouble explaining it away?

[...] Whatever. Asshole

I stole his wallet. He ate my fucking heart. Let's not pretend like I'm being fucking unreasonable here. What the fuck did you think would happen? What did he think would happen? How the fuck can the both of you expect me to just get over it? How the fuck can I know you don't think much of me, but I would think you could at least fucking see that this is You can't honestly expect me to pity him for losing a fucking wallet after he carved my fucking chest open and I didn't kill him. I could, you know. Could call ten rangers right now, tell them exactly where to find him. If I wanted him dead, I could make it happen. And you're pissed that I took his wallet?

Well, now my curiosity is piqued. Pray tell, why are you giving something away for free? What is the catch?

Only catch is that you have to keep it for yourself. Can't get it and give it to that fucking bird somebody else.

[pm] Yeah, definitely. We've got good reasons to believe there was once a settlement there, so we'll dig, hope to find foundations and perhaps objects that the people used there over 500 years ago. Perhaps earlier yet. This is so exciting.

[pm] That sounds exciting. [user still does not understand why this would be exciting, but he likes to see henri happy.] What do you do with them when you find them?

[pm] You get to feed someone who is better than you in every single possible way. You are SO welcome. And I also allowed you to lay in my bed. I'm basically a benevolent creature.

[pm] Better? You're not better than anyone. I'd call you a piece of shit, but I think it'd be an insult to shit. You might think you're something special, but all you are is a fucking animal.

[pm] Yeah. I've been giving a few classes. Getting back into the swing of everything has been nice. And I have a digging scheduled over the summer which sounds promising. The first scans we made are, at least.

[pm] It helps, getting back to [...] some kind of normal, I think. What [...] are you digging for? [user still does not really understand what henri does. and probably never will. sorry, henri.]