>>5877225"Ollie, you don't really have to do this, you know.", you said after you came back.
"WHAT?"
"I don't really love cabbages all that much. You don't have out of your way to cook a dish you hate only for my personal enjoyment."
"WHAT? OLLIE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!"
"Stewed cabbages as a side? Last time I checked, you hated cabbages."
"NO NOT REALLY THOUGH THEY'RE A PERFECTLY FINE VEGETABLE AND-"
"Last time you tasted a salad with sliced cabbages in it, you ended up puking for half an hour."
"MAYBE IT WAS SPOILED!"
"Ollie, I personally saw you snack on slime mold on three separate occasions. This is really weird, we need to get you checked. I'm entirely serious about this."
Ollie cocked her head to the side. "OH YEAH I THINK I GET IT WHEN WAS THE CABBAGES THING"
"Last April?"
"BEFORE MY LAST LEFT SHOULDER OR AFTER?"
"I'll need to check my journal, but I think it was before. A few weeks or so."
"AH, THE SHOULDER WAS WAS LINDA THEN"
"Linda?"
"LINDA LIKED CABBAGES I FOUND THAT WEIRD SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS HAHA I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE"
"Who's Linda?"
"NO ONE NOBODY DON'T MIND IT FORGET OLLIE SAID ANYTHING OLLIE SAYS SILLY THINGS SOMETIMES DO YOU WANT TO HAVE SEX LET US HAVE SEX"
In some sense, it sounded like a clicking noise of old-timey wooden jigsaw pieces coming together. "Ollie, hold on a second. Remember when you said something about being an Eigenvessel?"
"HUH? YEAH!" Ollie was ruffling in her handbag for whatever reason.
"Eigenvessel? Are you one hundred percent sure? What if you misheard? What if they said 'Aegean vessel'?"
"I DON'T KNOW! MAYBE! AH! THERE IT IS!" Ollie fished out her makeup bag, yanked the face powder out of it, opened the jar and blew into it, all over your face.
Aegean vessel.
Theseus's ship.
You wanted to say something, but you couldn't exhale in order to do so. Your face felt numb, then darkness ate your mind.
