>>5392835Letting it all sink in, all you can come up with is a disappointed sigh.
“What’s wrong, Stan? It ain’t personal, honest!” Bea explains with a jaunty smile behind her mask.
You just don’t GET it, is what’s wrong, you reply in an earnestly PEEVED tone! Curt has this whole Order of his backing him up–a bunch of knowledge to work with… and THIS is how he uses it!?
“Yes,” Curt scoffs, “THIS is how I ‘use it’. Such are the perks of being the archmage.”
Okay, smarty-pants, you counter, if he’s so enlightened, then shouldn’t he know this is a terrible idea? He’s just setting himself up for one big fall!
“Is that so?” Replies the mage in a bemused tone, “Well then I suppose you’ll be able to tell me where I’ve erred?”
Too much of anything is bad, you explain–like, imagine if flowers didn’t die and come back to life every Winter, right? There’d be no value! He wants infinite life, but, like, it’s just gonna be a prison, won’t it?
“Well not if you have a SHORT life in store already…” Huffs Bea in a voice that implies more than you can interpret. Before you can tug on that line, a slight chuckle from Curt grows into a loud fit of derisive laughter!
“You… oh Stanley, the one thing I’ll miss when I’ve obtained immortality is your charming attempts at wit…” he laughs, wiping a lone tear that drips out from under his eyewear. “Why must the uneducated always turn to reason in their final moments?”
“Yea!” Snickers Bea, “Just like that goofy COMMANDER back at the National Guard Depot, right, Curt?!”
Wait, you snap, what was that about the Guard Depot!?
“Oh man, you shoulda seen him!” Giggles Bea as Curt bites his lip in displeasure, “We were on a mission to ice the COMMANDER, right? But he and a bunch of other survivors were holed up in a panic room, so we went in pretending to break through the skeletons, and-”
“ENOUGH, Bea.” Barks Curt! “It’s ancient history.”
“Ooookay….” Whines Bea as she crosses her arms. “I was just sayin’ that he tried to do the same thi-”
“BEA!”
“Yeesh, sorry!” Apologizes the exosuited amazon, “Me an’ my big mouth, huh?”
Anything else you wanna ask?
>WHERE’S BORIS?>SO YOU’VE BEEN PULLING THIS SHIT FROM THE BEGINNING, HUH?>BEA, YOU DON’T REALLY BELIEVE ALL THIS, RIGHT?>SCREW IT–SUCKER PUNCH THESE CLOWNS!>WRITE-IN! 