ercnerd | Catch-all: Clementine

[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.

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

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

By repeating them.

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

For what?

Himself. Or me. Whichever.

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

... I fixed it.

Fixed what?

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

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

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

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.

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

Yeah. So I wished away the monsters.

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

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

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?

The ability to go between worlds, I guess?

Not like I can do anything about it.

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

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. ]

[Past tense.]

It's not a bad want. What changed?

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.

[He nods.]

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

The others?

You know—other places like these.

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