audience: emma perkins

[cyclists]

Comments

[foodbin]

Come on. You know how useful you've been this entire time, right?

[cyclists]

Oh my - do you believe I have been?

[he seems pleased, but also gently surprised]

Hmm... then if you all believe that I have been able to provide assistance - then I have fulfilled my duties well enough.

[foodbin]

Anybody who doesn't think that is being an asshole.

[cyclists]

[sdlkjfsdf okay that makes him laugh]

You are too kind to me always, Emma.

Did you seek my company just to check on me?

[foodbin]

I actually had... a few questions about, like, the logistics of what would happen when there's less than ten of us.

[cyclists]

Much better.

[he will happily take this over any more worrying about his own contributions]

I do not know how much I can presume to say, especially without the young one present...

But what do you wish to know?

[foodbin]

Just... When they said the darkness will be gone on Thursday nights, does that mean we'll all stay awake, or what?

[cyclists]

It’s hard for me to say for certain....

Perhaps you all will be awake.

Perhaps it simply means that the young one and I will be able to cross over to this side as well.

[foodbin]

...If you have a choice, I wouldn't. Nobody can hurt you over there, right?

[cyclists]

Hmm...

Do you think the young one would be able to sit idly by if each of you were to be attacked?

Or that I would be able to do so? In truth - clearing the darkness was something that we both sought for some time.

[foodbin]

Not to sound like an asshole, but...

[She sighs.]

I think we need the two of you more than you need each individual one of us.

[unsaid]

... I do not know if I am so easily able to agree to the weighing of lives, Emma.