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[f8tal]

[The feed turns on to the sight of fluttering and wet blue wings and the sounds of a grumbling teenage girl off-camera.]

What a shitty dream bubble...

[The camera is knocked to the side a little to show off Vriska pulling off one of her boots to pour out the water that got caught inside. She looks a little better than a drowned rat, what with her clothes soaking and hanging off her like that. She puts both her boots back on once they're free of water and she pushes back a few locks of wet hair from her face.

She glances at the device, still annoyed, and picks it up and starts to fidget with the buttons.]

What the flying fuck-

[Camera feed ends.]

Comments

[bestestfurrend]

Vwiskers!!

...wait, you are Vriska, right? [Checking the comments, yep, definitely not an ancestor.] Oh, good, it is you!!

Uhm, this isn't a dream bubble, it's a purrlace called Vatheon, and there's a lot of us here but not all of us, but...wait a second.

[Private]

You have to be careful! The Empress is here and the Grand Highblood and I don't need to tell you how furry dangerous they are. Most of us are hiding, have any of the others said they'll come and get you?

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[f8tal]

Yeah, I know that now.

How many of you guys are even here?

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[bestestfurrend]

Okay, good!

Let me see - me and Karkat and Equius and Tavros and Feferi and Eridan and Gamzee and Aradia. And a lot of older trolls! Darkleer and Signless and Mister Psii and Lysunder and Dualscar. They're our ancestors. Mine was here too but she left, and Kanaya's as well. And then the other two I already told you about...

There are some of our humans too.

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[f8tal]

How long have you guys been here?

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[bestestfurrend]

I've been here a bit longer than two perigees, but some of the others have been here fur more than half a sweep! I don't know exactly how long fur each, though.

voice - private

[f8tal]

So what, does that make all of us an alternate timeline? [It's all she can think of for this to make even a lick of sense.]

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[bestestfurrend]

I don't think so! We all seem to remember the same things happening up to a point, but we're furom diffurent points in the timeline. I'd just died when I came here... It's like this purrlace grubnapped up all furom wherever it wanted to. But if it sends us back - the ones of us who can go back, at least - I think we go back to where we left off in the alpha timeline.

voice - private

[f8tal]

The ones who can go back?

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[bestestfurrend]

Those of us who are still alive?

voice - private

[f8tal]

[So really being here is just a waste of time.]

So you guys won't go back to your dream bubble?

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[bestestfurrend]

I don't know if I had a dream bubble. I'd just died when I ended up here. I don't know what happens if I get sent back. [She's afraid she might just disappear.]