Catch-all: Clementine

[ercnerd]

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[stillnot]

[ man being fine with people seeing your memories and then them seeing specifically the one that still gives you nightmares is. unfortunate. but alright, sure. ]

Yeah. Uh... Alvin Junior. After his dad.

[ercnerd]

[A dad who doesn't appear to be in the picture anymore—one that seems to be just Clementine and Alvin Junior . . . ]

That was good advice back there.

[stillnot]

I have to teach him rules if he's going to make it. We have a lot of them, now.

[ercnerd]

Yeesh. How's he supposed to keep them straight? . . . What kind of rules?

[stillnot]

By repeating them.

They're all practical stuff. Don't go alone. Stay quiet. Check for exits. And always save one bullet.

[ercnerd]

For what?

[stillnot]

Himself. Or me. Whichever.

[ercnerd]

. . . What's going on in your dimension?

[stillnot]

... I fixed it.

[ercnerd]

Fixed what?

[stillnot]

The walkers. In my world, the dead come back. As monsters.

Or, they used to, until a couple weeks ago.

[ercnerd]

And you fixed that by yourself? You're impressive, all right.

[stillnot]

Believe me, I'd love to take the credit.

But it was just because my team came in first in the last place like this.

[ercnerd]

First . . . ? So you're saying that your prize for winning something was a wish?

[stillnot]

Yeah. So I wished away the monsters.

[ercnerd]

At the school, everyone who graduated received a wish while the winning dorm got an additional prize. Doesn't that feel kind of unfair?

[stillnot]

I don't think anyone who gets a wish can complain.

[ercnerd]

That's what I'm saying. Everyone from Wiwaldi received a wish, but only your team got them in the simulation. What did the rest of the teams get?

[stillnot]

The ability to go between worlds, I guess?

Not like I can do anything about it.

[ercnerd]

. . . So the walkers are gone. What's next?

[stillnot]

I don't know.

I wanted to try to make something with what we have. And a little help from the outside, too - no point in wasting it.

[ but that's, uh. past tense. hrm. ]

[ercnerd]

[Past tense.]

It's not a bad want. What changed?

[stillnot]

AJ got taken away from me again, here.

I can't keep doing this. Or - if I'm going to keep doing this, since apparently it can happen over and over, I need to know there's nothing else putting him in danger.

[ercnerd]

[He nods.]

These things get tiresome the first time around. Are you going to seek the others out?

[stillnot]

The others?