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thereareeyesinsidethetrees · 2 months

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ford: here’s the current plan: i dive down while the shiver-flock is distracted, get through the coral, grab one of the urchins, and then we make a run for the ship as soon as i surface

stan: hm, alright, i hear ya. counterpoint: we don’t have any diving gear

ford: i’ll hold my breath

stan: six, and i say this with the upmost respect, you can’t even hold your breath going up and down the stairs. your lungs are worse than mine, somehow, and i don’t know how you even managed that

ford: okay. ouch

stan: and, i mean, what if you get a brain-eating amoeba or somethin’?

ford: bold of you to assume i don’t already have twenty anomalous variants swimming around in my grey matter

stan: okay, what about bacteria and parasites and viruses? the ocean is chock full of micro-shit that wants to kill you

ford: i am encroaching on their home without their consent. as far as i’m concerned, they have every right to do so

stan: for fuck’s sake- ford

ford: what?

stan: i’m asking you to take care of yourself for once here

ford: do you have another plan?

stan: uh…no

ford: then, and i say this with the upmost respect, don’t fucking tell me what to do

stan: i-

ford: i’m sorry, that was rude, i appreciate your advice

stan: hey, thanks

ford: i’m still doing it though

stan: (sigh) yeah, i kinda figured

#how he managed to have worse lungs than stan is that ae gave him aey mystery lung shitfuckery #sorry ford this is the price you pay for being our favorite #anyway the shiver-flock isn’t really all that dangerous…in the conventional sense anyhow #at any time at all they can just decide to hit you with an intense will to give them affection and play with them #and ford both does not want to experience that and also knows for a fact that he would not have enough air for that #they also don’t realize what they’re doing is wrong. if mabel was here she’d totally be able to make them see the error of their ways #‘that’s not nice’ (boops them on their little snoots)#uhhh for a description of what they actually are #we imagined they’re immortal lil guys made purely from primordial ooze laced through with magic. something like that #they don’t eat cause they don’t have mouths and they can’t be hurt in any meaningful way so they just play with each other #and guard their fellow magic-primordial ooze urchin creatures #(mostly so they can bop them around with their faces every now and then)#it’s all a game to them #which is why they don’t realize overwriting something’s will to make it play with and pet them is wrong #and why ford needs to make sure they don’t spot him #heh. ae kinda like the idea of them :]

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