“... Heather first.”

“The last few days have been really quiet and the wayfarer ghost I hired won’t shut the fuck up. Now you.”

“Everyone I’ve ever loved has abandoned me.”

“- aww! Veronica, we’re not going to leave.”

“What a shame?”

“It’s very nice, actually. Unless you’d rather we flutter away, in which case of course we can?”

“I’m not moving.”

“You just said that you didn’t like the stream, Heather.”

“I don’t like -“ she gestures inarticulately “- sitting around, waiting for something to happen.”

“Anxiety leads to expectation, expectation leads to misery, misery leads to conflict, conflict leads to anxiety.”

“Planning on becoming a paladin?”

“Plans are for people who don’t know themselves.”

“Plans are for people who know themselves too well.”

“Plans are for people who aren’t going to stop existing when they die.”

“- Veronica, you’re not formless, you’re going through a brief depressive episode. You pinged neutral just a few weeks ago and you haven’t learned any secrets since then. Is this about Jason?”

“It’s always about Jason.”

“It’s about Jason.”

“Your former co-conspirator clings to your conscience so very tightly for such an unmitigated basic bitch.”