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[cute_bruiser]

"--And you can't make me!"

Molly slams the door behind her, but as soon as she sees the bar it's as if her mood flips on a coin: she tosses her hair back and beams delightedly, eyes lighting up (with joy, not super-powers).

She bounces off to the bar for a drink... and pauses noticeably when she sees the outside through the door.

Still, she can explore what on earth caused that mess later - first things first, and milkshakes always come first.

Feel free to catch her either at the bar, or exploring the mess outdoors wide-eyed (and more than a little worried she knows what happened).

The narration would be grateful if you don't tell her that her older self helped to cause it, though.

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[stuck_mynock]

"What got you so riled up?"

Yes, Molly, Jaq heard that remark as you entered.

[cute_bruiser]

"Oh, dude!" Her head snaps round.

"Fighting with my sister. Where'd you get to? It's been, like, forever."

[stuck_mynock]

Long pause.

"Has it, though."

It's not been that long for Jaq!

[cute_bruiser]

"It's been months and months! For me, anyway."

Beat.

"Did the bar get stupid with time, again?"

[stuck_mynock]

"It does tend to do that," Jaq says reasonably.

[cute_bruiser]

Feelingly, "Yeeeeeeah."

She grins at him, regardless. "How're you doing, anyway?"

[stuck_mynock]

"Same as I ever am."

Which is a lot less like 'good' and a lot more like 'not minding too much'.

"The village is nearly empty. Everyone's going hunting for megathalariums. It's pretty dull."

[cute_bruiser]

She gives him a look, because she's not stupid, and she knows that feeling.

"What's a mega- megalith-" Pause, and a frown of concentration. "Megathalarium?"

[stuck_mynock]

"About three houses tall at the shoulder, white, hairy, six legs with hooves, horns, go around in herds. They're not herbivores, but they don't hunt, they usually just absorb sunlight."

[cute_bruiser]

"Huh. You mean like plants?" Molly considers this. "We don't have them. Cool!"

[stuck_mynock]

"Photovores, really. The only plants we have are wroshyr trees," Jaq says. "Kazic III wasn't really made for sentients to live on."

[imitatethesun]

"It must have been an interesting fight, whatever caused all this." The statement comes from a certain redhead, who's hopping barefoot from rock to rock near the lake.

[cute_bruiser]

"What?"

Her head snaps up; she'd been somewhere else, half in the fight with Nico and half ... wondering.

"Oh, yeah." Her foot picks out a furrow in the ground, running along it with her toe. "Yeah, it must've been pretty big, I guess."

And she has the worst idea she knows why.

[imitatethesun]

"Thou'rt upset?" he questions, stepping down and closer, careful and any thorny bits in the grass.

"Why?"

[cute_bruiser]

"No," she says, instantly.

"I'm totally fine."

To outsiders, she is always totally fine.

[daringyoungman]

"Hey, Molly."

Yes, that may seem like it's from a disembodied voice, but then he drops down from the rafters and it's a totally embodied voice.

"Who can't make you what?"

[cute_bruiser]

"My sister, and it's kind of a long story."

She grins at him. "Hey, Robin."

[daringyoungman]

Robin spreads his hands with a shrug as he hops onto a barstool next to her.

"I'm not going anywhere."

[cute_bruiser]

She shrugs.

"I had an argument with Nico."

Her eyes keep tracking back to the remaining damage she can see outside.

"So what've you been up to, anyway? It's been a while."

[daringyoungman]

"Has it? It's not been that long for me."

Robin's grin disappears as he watches Molly's attention flicker. Arguments with family, in his experience, aren't something you just dismiss with a shrug, but they're also something you never share with anyone else.

"Not a lot. Trying to learn dis^. You know anything about programming?"

[cute_bruiser]

"Yeah, but time's really weird here, isn't it? I was Bound for, like, forever, and then I didn't come in for ages, and now I just find a door every so often."

She grins. "Not a thing - that's more Vic's sorta thing."

And maybe Gert's, but she's more into her books than computers.

"What's dis^? Is it, like, code, like html?"

She can't code, but she does pay attention.

[daringyoungman]

"Yeah, I noticed that."

It's only been a week or so for Robin since he first even found the bar. "It's a code, yeah. But it's not like HTML. It's what the - so, you know those chat devices Karkat gives out?"

[cute_bruiser]

She nods. "Yeah, I heard about them. Is that what they use?"

[daringyoungman]

"That's what they use," he confirms. "I'm trying to get the chat software installed on my gauntlet. For chatting in the field, you know?"

[cute_bruiser]

"Cooool. Will it definitely work outside, then?"