VOICE.

[veryhuman]

This rabbit saw a body flee. That means there is still life within them, right? Right? Yes... the life within that person still wishes to ...

[ Silence.

A softer, warmer voice -- but still sounds very much like the one that was just talking, only slightly muffled -- comes over instead. ]

I apologize. A person got a little excited and now he has gone to sleep. That is... for the best, I think.

Life is much better when we are smiling with one another, but the way that he smiles...

Anyway, why don't we talk about what makes us smile? Joy is best had when it is shared with others, isn't that how that saying goes?

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[veryhuman]

It's dripping with the meat and insides of other people.

[spah]

... Okay.

[What the hell.]

Long as he's, uh. Havin' a good time with that. [WHO ARE WE TALKING ABOUT AGAIN HE DOESN'T KNOW]

[veryhuman]

You certainly are an open-minded individual.

How adorable.

[spah]

More like I'm tryin' to change the subject.

Is it?

[adorable he means]

[veryhuman]

Most fair, most fair.

[ He chuckles to himself. ]

It is.

But that is my topic of choice... so please, you choose the topic.

[spah]

Uh.

You were talkin' about... joy, right?

[veryhuman]

Indeed, I was.

[ .................... ]

What brings you joy?

[spah]

[................................................................]

I like workin' with my hands. Buildin' things.

[He'd ask himself why he's even entertaining this guy but, well
he's had dumber conversations with worse people]

[veryhuman]

What do you build?

[ :) ]

Could it be weapons of mass destruction?

[spah]

They could be.

I invent things. Usually weapons, teleporters, prosthetics, whatever comes to my head.

[veryhuman]

Prosthetics?

[spah]

Replacement hands, legs, arms, you get the idea.

[veryhuman]

I see, I see.

You want to fix what has been lost.

[spah]

Nah.

I just like havin' a robot hand. Lotta parts of the human body can be upgraded, same as a machine.

[says man who cut off his own hand for fun.]

But I don't mind providin' for people either.

[veryhuman]

What about a head?

Could you give me a head?

[spah]

Hm.

[Give him a second, he's genuinely thinking about this for some goddamn reason.]

A head would get a helluva lot more complicated. I'd probably need your brain. Ain't impossible, though. I know a fella who put another fella's brain in a pumpkin.

[veryhuman]

Why a pumpkin?

[spah]

Halloween.

1/3

[veryhuman]

[ Excuse him, he is going to use the search engine. ]

[veryhuman]

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[veryhuman]

Halloween?

[spah]

[Oh.

This is one of those types.]

It's a holiday.

[veryhuman]

[ A holiday where you put the brains of people into pumpkins. ]

How horrifying.

[spah]

Sure?

[Engie's just assuming he's talking about the fact that Halloween is generally spooky.]

[veryhuman]

Is there a reason for it?

[ Some sort of symbolism in putting a brain in a pumpkin? Is it a sacrifice to a greater, unfeeling entity that shall devour the world? ]

For such chaos as Halloween?