"Oh, I just mean the whole landing in a strange land and usually having to fight your way to safety. I had something similar happen when I first arrived. They dropped me in the middle of a maze and until you found someone, it got colder and colder. It seems like when you first get here, you go through the worst sort of stuff. And then after that, it's easy enough to avoid it. Maybe I'm just cursing myself by speaking it, but...I'd say as of right now, I've managed to avoid the worst shit. Not like hell..."
Tech fidgets a bit. Hell had a way of sweeping him into horrible situations and there was no avoiding it at points. Kate knows the struggle. And not simply surrounding the Hellburbia thing, though that was arguably viewed as one of the worst things hell had done across the board. Removing their free will, so to speak. But honestly? Hellburbia had been strangely comforting -- it offered Tech something he otherwise would never have known. A family.
"There's so much I wanna ask about the people in Penance. But I don't know if I should. Maybe it's better not to know how everyone's doing there. It might make me feel guilty for leaving them behind. Because I didn't think...I just followed the fox. And I'd hoped more would..."
Kate did. Kate is one person from there who escaped and arguably one of the people who mattered most. It's his mother. She's no longer being tortured. She's free and can have pizza and live a normal life in a place that resembles a normal world. But how wonderful would it be if their entire family was here? And the Jaskier he had known? And others? Maybe the fox could go and grab them at some point, with the exception of Jaskier. Because two Jaskier's likely couldn't occupy the same space.
"Ava...isn't here. I thought maybe this was where she had gone when she left, but. I guess there's somewhere else people go when they leave hell. Home, maybe? Or heaven? I don't know. She wouldn't be out of place in heaven. She was pretty much like an angel already..."
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Tech fidgets a bit. Hell had a way of sweeping him into horrible situations and there was no avoiding it at points. Kate knows the struggle. And not simply surrounding the Hellburbia thing, though that was arguably viewed as one of the worst things hell had done across the board. Removing their free will, so to speak. But honestly? Hellburbia had been strangely comforting -- it offered Tech something he otherwise would never have known. A family.
"There's so much I wanna ask about the people in Penance. But I don't know if I should. Maybe it's better not to know how everyone's doing there. It might make me feel guilty for leaving them behind. Because I didn't think...I just followed the fox. And I'd hoped more would..."
Kate did. Kate is one person from there who escaped and arguably one of the people who mattered most. It's his mother. She's no longer being tortured. She's free and can have pizza and live a normal life in a place that resembles a normal world. But how wonderful would it be if their entire family was here? And the Jaskier he had known? And others? Maybe the fox could go and grab them at some point, with the exception of Jaskier. Because two Jaskier's likely couldn't occupy the same space.
"Ava...isn't here. I thought maybe this was where she had gone when she left, but. I guess there's somewhere else people go when they leave hell. Home, maybe? Or heaven? I don't know. She wouldn't be out of place in heaven. She was pretty much like an angel already..."