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  1. Public Bookmark 74

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    -set after Birdhouse plot and Bagi's arrival, Canon Divergent AU-
    Today would've been like any other day, if the Morning Crew hadn't noticed Philza's lack of replies towards all greetings when the comms announced his presence. Or how he wasn't in the house or bunker atop the Wall.

    So off to find him they go! But once they do...
    ... the sight greeting them is of him all in white, the telltale sign of having taken the Federation's 'Happy Pills'. Only his behavior was nowhere alike that of the previous "patients".

    So it is up to them, soon joined by other people, to find out Phil's reasons for taking the medicine, and perhaps do more than just give him the antidote to fully heal him.
    However, nobody ever anticipated the *other* changes that are slowly occurring in Quesadilla, changes that not even the Federation could prevent...

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    "Your usual, Mr Francis Mosses?” you repeat with the same inflection. It has to stay the same. A name to a star will not make it any more personal – it’ll remain the same cold distance away, stay the same burning core of amorphous light, in a fixed set of constellations. It has to.

    But you’ve overlooked the most salient point. Humans are not stars.

    “Yes, please.” He maintains eye contact this time. Perhaps it’s the fatigue that’s trained his gaze on you. Perhaps he’s slightly delirious. Perhaps it’s neither.

    Regardless, you can feel a slight shift in attitude, and you don’t like it.

    There's a reason you stuck with this shitty diner job: routine. So, why the hell does that keep changing for you?

     

    ft. exceptionally tired reader + fictional fictional DDD branch I made up + Diner AU/AU where it's the 70s instead?

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