⚹You wish to leave a message for Grit

[save_theworld]

...'Lo.

I'm somewhere else. So you should leave a message.


[⚹There's about a minute of static and light breathing before Grit's message bank cuts in.

⚹Nailed it.]

Comments

[completelyarmless]

[Trip... well, they can write pretty good, but it's very. Big. Tiny writing isn't very easy when you're doing it either with your mouth or your toes. But Trip's had lots of time to think. About the kind of magic they can never reach or remember, no matter how much they try. About a really bad dad. About some bed of flowers they've never seen, but someone else has seen lots and lots. And about how nobody else in the whole Underground was on that someone's side.]

HEY GRIT see the tiny bitty note in here? Keep that in your pocket or in that necklace or something ok? I FIGURED OUT how to beat time! Even if the worst thing happens and you hafta go back you won't be stuck all on your own ever again!!

[Indeed, there's a scrunched-up folded little wad of paper accompanying this note. Taking the time to unfold it, it's... exactly the kind of childish simplistic solution you'd expect from a kid, honestly. Just... a note, in the tiniest words Trip could do:

HI ME!!! This is your first best friend! Even if you don't know it yet, you gotta trust them and PROTECT THEM LOTS. Its rly rly important they know there important so YOU GOTTA. ps ask them to make the music box go if they didnt already!]

[save_theworld]

[Grit sits there holding onto both notes for a long time. There's no shame in crying, not for an eight year old, and as tired as they are of crying...

well. It's kind of nice to cry happy tears, for once.]