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[Wheels and- oh yeah. That. Dandy thing.]

I've never done anything like that, and he's never asked me to.

...but. There's definitely been people who like doing that sort of thing, and taking that chance. ...I know Elias wouldn't have told someone to do...that stuff, [she explains, frowning.]

...but that doesn't mean someone couldn't have used something he said as an excuse.

...Elias wouldn't apologize if it was something like that though. He'd just say, it was their fault. ...and it kinda would be- it's why I want to be careful, when I introduce people to him! ...Because Elias wants friends...

[She grimaces, and looks down.]

...but I don't think he actually realizes how easy someone can pretend to be one.

[Reira hugs the pillow though, looking down.] ...and when your friends do stuff like that and say it's for you, you have to tell them it's wrong, instead of saying it wasn't you.

[Oh. Phew. Sonic looks visibly relieved, like he let out a breath he was holding. It wasn't that he didn't believe Dandy -- but he had to know if Reira was secretly that kind of person.

(don't tell him that any one person could still be lying)

Sonic frowns, though, listening and nodding]

So... he doesn't tell people to do bad things for him. But he doesn't tell them not to, either. [he sighs, scratching at his new(ish) robotic ears, which fold over in thought] Which is just like what the Weather Lady does, really. Frustrating... [so in the end, neither of the gods actually stand for... much. Except hating each other.] And yeah I'm not sure he gets it. I can understand that!! I... am kind of like that. [his ears droop] Y'know. Wanting friends so bad that you just... ignore things about people.

Sort of? ...The Fog can see a lot more than Elias can...Elias is stuck in a computer, but the Fog is...well.

[The Weather.] But Elias is just...a person too. I keep telling everyone that- he's got power but he's not... [He's not someone you're meant to follow blindly, is really the gist of it.

And honestly probably shouldn't be in charge of much at all.] ...anyway. There's definitely people who he calls friends, that just said they'd be friends for his stuff, [she sighs, shaking her head. What a mess, is all it boils down to. What a...mess.

Reira looks up, and blinks to Sonic.] ...were you...

[....]

Did you make a bad friend..?

Well. He can see everything on the network, right? [he chuckles a bit] People spill their guts there, so it's not a bad info drip. He's just a kid... He didn't ask for any of this either, did he?

[it seems like a bad idea all around. Both children being given incredible power against their will, and disingenuous friends!!

Sonic shakes his head at the question]

Not BAD friends just.... friends with bad... tendencies? Like... Ray-ray. She calls Aunamee her dad and keeps saying she's a bad person but... I want to be her friend! She's cool otherwise! So.... I kind of just ignore it. But Aunamee kills people. For fun. [he sighs...] I guess that's not that weird here.

[She shakes her head.]

His dad put the Fog's power in him and stuck him in the computer. ...I've...seen his real body.

[His...'dead' body.] I guess after a while I won't be like his little sister anymore, when I'm older than that... [There is a pained smile there. If she assumes Elias is technically growing, then that even more removes his excuses. But him not growing...

...there was a reason she asked to not be a waldgeist anymore.]

...oh. You wanna know Ray more? [Well that's good timing.] ...yeah. ...her dad isn't... ...well. We're still friends. People can be friends even if they have bad parents, [She insists.] ...Also if you tried to say she's not bad, she'd um...say she is. So.

[Don't worry about it.] Sometimes people do bad things- I think the important part is... what they try to do about it. If they even say it was bad, and stuff...

She's coming over though to help me sleep in a bit, if you wanna talk to her about being friends. I think she'd like that.

... That gruesome, huh. [he can see it in your eyes, Reira!!] ... I'm sure his dad had the best intentions but geez....

[Well!! All we can hope is that even if his body died at a young age, his brain continues to grow and change... maybe forever, stripped of its usual solidification cues!!! MAYBE... we can hope....]

That's true. We are not our parents! Mmm. Yeah she was uh. Very insistent. That she was a bad person. But she sat with me and helped me when all the skin fell off my arms -- [he says, gesturing to them] -- and so she can't be ALL bad. [his ears perk straight up in surprise] She's coming over? Does she have some kind of... magic snail sleep poison...?

Well, it's not gruesome.... [Just. Y'know. Hanging on a bunch of cables.]

....I don't think he did though. Elias had a sister before he was born, and mister Liewen tried the same thing on her.

[She looks away.] ....it didn't work with Laurel though.

In Felfri I guess it did? There's another Elias there, and he still has Laurel- they're both there! But...not here. [Reira has yet to realize the implications of this in tandem with giving Elias a sister stand in.]

...anyway Ray's like that, so just don't tell her she's not bad and you'll be okay. [reira,]

It's ummmm....not magic..? ...She's able to eat energy now though soooooo...

Oh, so he was just a creepy asshole, then. [he shakes his head] How someone could do that to their own kids...

... What's a Felfri? There's another Elias and his sister is alive there? Oh... is it like an alternate timeline or something? [NAILED IT]

[he laughs] Alright, she can be 'bad' if she wants I guess. [he still has NO IDEA she's ever actually done anything] ... Oh! That makes sense. Just make you so tired you HAVE to sleep.

Yeah. [Far as she's concerned, anyway. Still!]

Felfri is...oh! Yeah, basically that! It's Ryslig, but if there wasn't a Fog there. It's mostly way better- there's some stuff I want to make sure Elias doesn't decide is cool though, like how people got big shocks if they were going to try and do a crime...

[Bit extreme in her books....] ...but mostly it was great! Felfri connected to other dimensions a lot too- so they were pretty used to seeing different people, and knew how to send them home when the time was right. So normally, people would go there, and have fun for a month. Erm...it doesn't work for us since we got to Ryslig different...but if we get to visit again, I can show you! I bet you'd get to be you again even!! [And by 'you', she means Hoggy.]

Mnm! [Reira is not clarifying a damn thing on these other points though.] Exactly! ...I dunno if she'll be able to sleep after that though, so I said she could just stay here and use my books and stuff after...

Whaaaat? A Ryslig without the Weather Lady?? AND I GET TO BE ME??? That's AWESOME, when can I go there?! CAN WE GO NOW? I don't plan on doing any crime!! [he kicks his legs petulantly] Why can't we live there insteaaaaadddd!!

Oh! Well, I can hang out with her. I don't sleep much anyway, got too much stuff to do.

Hey, we can't just leave everyone else here..!! [Sonic, focus!!] Besides, we'd probably have something like Felfri here too if we got rid of the Fog one day. ...Or... ...I dunno, got her to change somehow. ...But she's definitely been the same forever so.

[Or at least it feels like it. All the niceness in the world doesn't change the fact that arguing with her, according to certain followers, is like arguing with a wall.

More important things though.] Great..!! She'd probably like that too. And then we could all be friends, instead of just in different directions, [she adds with a small grin. Friends! Better in groups.]

...I guess that would make 'one of each' too...

Well... I don't think getting rid of her is going to be easy... and she's important to a lot of people here. But changing her, or at least getting her to work with everyone... [Sonic rubs his chin thoughtfully, then grins] Well, nothing is impossible, right?

[It's a pie in the sky dream and Sonic knows it. She's been like that for ages... But you gotta hold on to what if!]

Huh? One of each...? [blink. WAIT HE KNOWS THIS ONE] Oh! Like someone with Elias, someone with the Weather Lady, and someone who's with neither! [he grins again] Trio of Awesomesauce!

Supposedly, she had everyone be heroes in the past after all...

[And then her sisters died and she got mad, but details.] ...if she could go back to doing that, it'd be a lot easier...!

[Happier things though. Like Awesomesauce, she thinks as she grins.] Heheeee...Exactly..! Like that three flavor icecream stuff!

Heh!! I'd much rather be a hero! If I could protect the people here without having to eat them, I... well. I would still want to go home. But I wouldn't mind waiting a bit. ... What I really want is to send a message back home. Let Tom and Maddie know I'm ok, you know? If I just... vanished without a trace, I know they probably turned the town upside-down looking for me.

[he looks away as he thinks about it, sadly. He can imagine Tom probably got the whole police force of Green Hill on search party. Put Carl's tracking skills to the test... were they sad? Did they lose sleep over him?

The sudden thought dominates his thoughts, pushing the happier ideas about ice cream flavors away.]

Yeah! Exactly! [And okay, so the Fog's mad, well...Get over it, Fog!!

Yeah!! ....oh.

...oh....Reira chews her lip, nodding as Sonic speaks.] ...yeah. ...for people who didn't just die or stop existing...

...mnhh... ...we were able to sort of get people through, but we couldn't really touch anything is the problem... [she mutters, sitting in a ball.]

...I don't know if we could just send letters... ...if we could... ....Well. I wouldn't, but it'd help a lot of people, probably.

[Sonic puts his hands to his head and laces his metal fingers into his hair, pulling at it anxiously]

And I had my rings on me when I came...! I bet they think I just... left them! I would never! Not after everything they've done for me!

[with something of a panicked look in his eyes and his ears angled back, he grabs Reira's hands]

We HAVE to figure out a way to send a message!! I can't let them think I abandoned them!

Aaaaa-h!

[Suffice to say, Reira is a little caught off guard (not the least of which because if she wasn't looking at a half mechanized human, she's pretty sure she'd be looking at something whose ears went into 'airplane' mode)- left stammering on the spot, with nothing to really speak for.] I don't...

I mean...we could ask people working on the portals? ...Except mister Fiddleford stopped working on that... ...I guess Marco's still doing it, but I don't want it to be that the letters get there and fail...

[Sonic makes a high pitched whining noise, his lip quivering and his eyes threatening to overflow. Apparently the idea that Donut Lord and Pretzel Lady might think he abandoned them, spurned their friendship and kindness and allowing him into their home, upsets Sonic more than a lot of other things that have happened here]

We gotta think of something... we gotta.

Mnhhhhh....

[This is...a massive pickle. Huge! And on top of that, she's really tired but unable to sleep.

Her brain is running Bad.] ...I'll look for who's working on portal stuff. Like...Mister Robotnik probably is, he does robot things and stuff. And I know Marco is, but he's probably going to be pretty busy this week... [Well, so is she but.]

But if...if we think really hard about how, we have to think of something that works..!

Hnnnmmgh....

[the more time that passes, the more hope that his "parents" will lose... but it can't be helped. No matter how much he wants it, he can't will a functional portal into existence]

Sorry... I know there's a lot going on right now for... everyone. I'll have to talk to Eggman the next time I see him.

[his ears are still folded, but he lets go of Reira at least]

Yeah....

[And maybe, Ray will have ideas. And-

wait]

...Eh...? ...Eggman..?

... Oh! That's what I call Robotnik. See, back home, his drones all look like flying eggs! All white and... egg shaped. So he's Eggman!

Oh!!

[That makes sense!]

...why did they look like eggs though?

[SHRUG] Beats me!! I'm sure he's got some reason like they're "aerodynamic" or they're, like, the most optimum shape for robots to be, or something.

Hmmmmm....they would be pretty easy to blow wind and water over if they were like eggs...

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