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Guppy is in a booth, eating a ham sandwich, now solid again. His injured foot rests on the seat. He is hiding from one or two people, but would like company, particularly Sooty's if he's around.

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Yes, mun gathered that. So was the Guppy and Gil thread because the mun's father didn't fall asleep in front of the TV. Unfortunately. But Guppy seemed to have moved because he wasn't in the chair in the Suti/Gil schmoop thread, which was incidentely very sweet.

Guppy wouldn't dream about asking about the moment Gil turned back and the aftermath, whatever that might be. He smiles.

"And the others are all back to normal?"

Seems he didn't know the rest. Possibly because falling from a beam high above the floor was a bit of a distraction.

"I haven't talked to anybody else yet," Asar-Suti says, slowly. "But I will find them. They must be all right, though - also, angry at me and sorry for whatever they did while under the influence."

Guppy can relate to the second half of that, already feeling extremely guilty for a number of things, wondering in particular if he'll ever be able to look Tim or Claire in the eye again. Let alone what everyone must have thought seeing him in a cage yesterday. But the first half...

"Angry at you? Whatever for? It wasn't your fault, it was that fly's or the coffee machine or something. I can't imagine why anybody would blame you for that. It wasn't your fault that your coffee machine had a demon and presumably there was a perfectly good reason why you were keeping the fly."

"I was supposed to look after it; and we kept it for further study, which never happened. Putting the jar with the Fly in on top of the coffee machine which I knew to be demonic was not responsible behaviour of me," Asar-Suti says, curtly.

Guppy raises his eyebrows.

"And how many times had the machine exploded out of its cabinet before? None. It's far less stupid than the hundreds of people I see each year who just happened to smoke whilst sitting on the sofa when they were tired, or put flammable materials on top of radiators, or think that they can rewire their broken appliances themselves. Everyone makes mistakes. If being in here has taught me anything, it's that there are some things you can't change, and that includes past events. Besides which if Dimaggio managed to get into your machine, he could presumably get out again. Which means that wherever you put the jar he could have found and broken it. Don't beat yourself up about it. At the end of the day, no real harm done." he says, hoping to cheer Asar-Suti up a bit.

"Thank you, Guppy," Asar-Suti says, knowing he means well.

If Guppy knows that much, presumably from Ray, that must mean everybody knows.

Oh ye meta-entities...

Not necessarily. Guppy did talk to Ray a lot, and Mitzi filled him in on a few details that she might have got from somewhere she probably shouldn't have. He smiles at Asar-Suti, hoping that he has brought him at least some comfort.

"If anyone gives you a hard time, I'll come and defend you." he says with a grin. "I'll wrestle them to the floor to defend your honour."

[ooc: Mun has to go babysitting overnight. Talk to you tomorrow.]

"Thank you," Asar-Suti says. "But I deserve to be given some grief, you know. I'll apologise and hope nobody hates me permanently."

[[See you!]]

Guppy can see at this point that nothing he can say is going to convince Asar-Suti not to blame himself. Plus he can't really say how anybody else is going to react. But he can relate to how Asar-Suti is feeling right now because it would be a similar feeling to losing a patient and wondering what he could have done differently. Best thing he can try and do is take Asar-Suti's mind off it.
He glances down at Mitzi, who by a 'coincidence' has written a suitable distraction. 'Trilobites have babies'. He gets up, still a little stiff from the bruising down his side where he landed.

"Come on. I'll get you a coffee and then you can show me the baby trilobites."

[ooc: Mun won't be online during day today so probably best to wrap. Will be on tonight from 9pm-11.20ish]

Okay, so Guppy stopped insisting - very sensible. Atypically sensible, even.

Asar-Suti smiles at doctor and flamingo both, then says, "Yes, that's a good idea; they are very tiny and hard to see...", following Guppy to the bar for the coffee.

[[OOC: OK, wrappped. See you Monday night, latest!]]

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