[ Involuntarily, his fingers twitch - flinching backwards at her question of what he's capable of doing. ]
Possibly.
[ He already lied by omission to one teenager for months on end; he doesn't feel like he has it in him to do it, again. There is something in how she looks at him that makes him feel guilty - possibly because he can feel the lies building up in his throat.
A huffing laugh slips out - he already lied about the crash outside the town. Lying that it was a prison transport, at least.
His head drops before he lifts it back up. ]
Kill those monsters with just a brick and prayer... [ A beat. ] Sorry. [ Maybe prayer isn't the right word when they're talking about cultists avoiding him? ]
They might've been spooked by that... I don't know crazy thinks.
Murphy, if only a brick and a prayer could make the monsters go away.
( in that moment, in that very instance when she said those words it almost seemed as if she had invoked a past memory. her voice was lower then, almost haunting as she said those words but almost as quick as it came, it left and heather was left to dissect what this man was hiding from her. )
I know how crazy thinks, it thinks....I need to either out crazy the other crazies or stand down from the real crazy. It doesn't matter though, I'm starting to think you just got wrapped up in that town like I did. It never just allows people in it you know?
That's what ... I heard that before. But I really don't have anything for it to call to me about. [ He closes his eyes, mulling over what it could be, but gives up. ] ... someone said the town was trying to punish us for something... trying to show them something they were denying... I didn't really get it, myself.
[ A sigh. ] I don't know what it could want from me.
There wasn't anything left in my life when I stumbled into that place...
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Date: 2026-05-08 04:45 am (UTC)Possibly.
[ He already lied by omission to one teenager for months on end; he doesn't feel like he has it in him to do it, again. There is something in how she looks at him that makes him feel guilty - possibly because he can feel the lies building up in his throat.
A huffing laugh slips out - he already lied about the crash outside the town. Lying that it was a prison transport, at least.
His head drops before he lifts it back up. ]
Kill those monsters with just a brick and prayer... [ A beat. ] Sorry. [ Maybe prayer isn't the right word when they're talking about cultists avoiding him? ]
They might've been spooked by that... I don't know crazy thinks.
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Date: 2026-05-08 04:57 am (UTC)( in that moment, in that very instance when she said those words it almost seemed as if she had invoked a past memory. her voice was lower then, almost haunting as she said those words but almost as quick as it came, it left and heather was left to dissect what this man was hiding from her. )
I know how crazy thinks, it thinks....I need to either out crazy the other crazies or stand down from the real crazy. It doesn't matter though, I'm starting to think you just got wrapped up in that town like I did. It never just allows people in it you know?
It calls them.
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Date: 2026-05-08 05:24 am (UTC)[ His shoulders drop as he shakes his head. ]
That's what ... I heard that before. But I really don't have anything for it to call to me about. [ He closes his eyes, mulling over what it could be, but gives up. ] ... someone said the town was trying to punish us for something... trying to show them something they were denying... I didn't really get it, myself.
[ A sigh. ] I don't know what it could want from me.
There wasn't anything left in my life when I stumbled into that place...