Time for an outlet

[gwenniepop]

[Friends]

I'll be in the artificing shed whenever I'm not in my cabin, so don't bother asking otherwise. By next week, I'll have something that will work. Either something that will identify them or a charm we can wear proving we are real. The latter is easier, so I might get that out of the way first to concentrate on the former. Oakes might let me work through dinner

[Warded to Calvin]

[Warded to Avery]

[Warded to Casper]

[Private]

There's no one to trust anymore.

[Webster]

Why did you lie to me about the candygram?

Comments

Gwen/Casper

[gwenniepop]

Make the deal anyway. Even if the big revelation was that you can't stand me, you know I'll listen. And I'll be honest. That's what it means that I'm your friend before anything else.


[...] She was trying to help him. It's that He didn't know anything about me. I think it's better I know.

This is what I can do. It's what I am good at. It's distracting me from I need to do it. [...] Your friends, they are all pretty tough. It's admirable.

Gwen/Casper

[casperkim]

[...] I can't, Popplestone. Let's drop it.

Trying to help him doesn't make it all right to mess with you. Not that I'm surprised she'd pull that sort of stunt. Shit like this has just become more common around here too. [...] But I think you're right. Knowing is better. Whatever choices you make from here, at least they're informed choices.

Just keep in mind what I said. Don't end up passing out in the fucking Artificing shed. [...] But. Yeah. They are.

Gwen/Casper

[gwenniepop]

Okay, consider it dropped. Promise.

Two months I need people to understand there might never be the 'right' time to tell the truth but you have to do it anyway. Even when it's not pretty. Saying something two months ago would have been so different than me finding out now by accident. I would have still felt like a fool, but it wouldn't have hurt as much.

We Ribbonfins like to sleep everywhere but our own cabin, you know. [...] I'm glad you have them.

Gwen/Casper

[casperkim]

Thank you.

[...] I can't say I never lie. But lying for the sake of a more appealing narrative, to make someone like you more, is manipulative bullshit. You aren't a fool. You just gave the wrong person the benefit of the doubt. Even if Ignacz started this, he should've said something before now. [...] What do you think you'll do?

If Stoker lets you sleep there, she's lost her fucking mind.

[...]

So am I.

Gwen/Casper

[gwenniepop]

Everyone lies sometime. I get that. But if it's what you based the start of everything on, [...] second guessing is what I am left with. That's why I feel foolish. I don't want to filter everything through this lens, but it's hard not to.

I [...] don't know what I will do. Take some time to think. Concentrate on dealing with the problem in front of me, these Strangers. Avoid everything to do with Valentine's Day period Avoid candy. Try to survive to my birthday at least? As good a goal as any.

Rosy would set me on fire if I hinted at that.

Hey, just to warn you, [....] I told Webster some time ago that I [...] liked someone else, and that's why things weren't so simple. Somehow, Lilika figured out it's you. Maybe watch your back. I think she'll do anything to better his odds, so to speak.

Trust me, I hated writing all of that just now.