"Yeah, mostly that," says Purple. "Or– when he's not expecting me, sometimes, but usually when he's not focusing on anything too hard."

Blue didn't realize Purple got quite that much information, but okay.

"Which of you is it more of the time?"

"Me," says Purple. "Eighty percent or something."

"Has that been constant since Blue first showed up or decreasing?"

"Decreasing," says Blue. "It was something like ninety-five percent near the start, but it's been near… eighty-ish for a week now."

"Have you ever managed to do literally anything about this voluntarily?"

"Usually I don't appear just to do nothing – I appear and think of something, or he's forgotten something, or he's just bored and then I show up and do something? But not actually forcing him out or anything, nope."

"So not voluntarily but - functionally."

"Yeah," he says. "Usually it's– pretty good about timing. It was weird earlier, him just going off on a run and me actually having a default of nothing to do."

Purple rolls his eyes.

"I assume you've thought of leaving each other notes."

"Yeah. I think I told you about the note I had after that first conversation? Wow that was a while back, but yeah, he's been leaving me notes."

"I usually get by okay anyway," says Blue. "Seems I can get at his memories more than he can get mine."

"That's weird."

"… The imbalance or the– getting?"

"Both, actually. Maybe I just don't know you well enough but you seem similar enough that I'd expect memory continuity to be the main difference."

"We… are pretty similar," says Blue. "Kinda like brothers, I think."

"Not having ever had a brother, neither of us presumably actually knows."

"Not really an informative comparison for me either."

He shrugs. "Brothers are pretty similar, I think? Also typically have some sort of protective feeling over the other, and-or want to punch them, that sort of thing."

Purple snorts and looks at Blue a bit disbelievingly. Protective? Really?

"...and/or want to punch them."

"Yeah," says Blue. "I think that's the main bit here, not really any of the protective bit."

"Thanks for that," says Purple.