MALIK

[foreversweaterweather]

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[foreversweaterweather]

[ oh! wow! awkward! Mabel gets the sense that this is going to be an Important Somber infodump, so she forces herself to be calm. She can tell that Malik is gonna have a hard time saying this so...she might as well help by prompting him a little, right? ]

Like what kind of things?

[godcards]

[ he's trying to stay constrained, because yeah this is incredibly awkward! he doesn't like this, not one bit. ]

I remember a page with a motorcycle in it very clearly. I begged my sister to let me keep that page. She said I could as long as our father never saw it.

[foreversweaterweather]

Oooooh, motorcycle! Nice choice!

[godcards]

[ the validation actually gets a flicker of positive emotion! ]

I thought it was interesting and exciting... to be able to ride across the land, completely free... I had never seen anything like it before. I would have kept the whole book, if my sister had let me... but I was okay with just one page. So I took it back home with me, imaging what having a motorcycle would be like.

I did get one later, after I left home.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ i'm laughing, you're so easy to validate, and i cannot believe you have a dedicated motorcycle icon, god bless ]

And? Was it everything you'd ever dreamed of?

[godcards]

[ he loves motorcycles THAT MUCH ]

Actually... yes. I'm quite fond of it.


[ A.... POSITIVE EMOTION?! holy shit ]

[foreversweaterweather]

[ the fact that her good buddy Malik is feeling a positive emotion makes Mabel's own light up like the fourth of July! ]

So where'd you get to go on your cool shiny new motorcycle?!

[godcards]

A lot of places... Even as far as Japan.

[ oh yeah we're rolling with TWO COMMENTS IN A ROW of positive vibes ]

[foreversweaterweather]

Whoaaaa...cool! How'd you get all the way to Japan on just a motorcycle? Does it run on water?!

[godcards]

...Sure, why not?

[foreversweaterweather]

Can you take me on a ride sometime over the water to Japan on your cool motorcycle?!

[godcards]

Hm, I don't know... I don't think you're ready for that kind of thing.

[foreversweaterweather]

What?! Hey, I'll have you know, I've done plenty of crazy stunts on moving vehicles before! I could totally handle an ocean-riding motorcycle!

[godcards]

I guess we'll have to see when the time comes, won't we? Nothing we can do about it now... but you may have to prove yourself in the future.

[foreversweaterweather]

Wha...? What do you mean?

[ gasp ] Are you saving up vouchers to buy your cool water-floating motorcycle?!

[godcards]

It's a secret.

[foreversweaterweather]

Awww, come on! You can't just hint something like that at me and then not tell me!

[godcards]

Why not? It's not like my bike is here, and there's nothing you can do about that. You'll just have to wait and find out later!

[foreversweaterweather]

At least give me a hint about when I might find out!

[godcards]

Well, we can't go to Japan until we get out of here, right? So there's your answer.

[foreversweaterweather]

Okay fine, it doesn't have to be Japan--but any water!! Drive me around the moat on your cool motorcycle!