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[decodex]

@LethalProtector

Eddie Brock. Leave a message... Does anyone leave messages anymore?

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[imperatour]

Just a loner type. Doesn't like to give it out.

[decodex]

Yeah. I guess I get that. Flying under the radar and all.

You the same way?

[imperatour]

I didn't have that same luxury. I tend to stick out.

[ One armed and the whole brutal woman warrior thing. ]

[decodex]

I mean, are there a lot of people? Like, cities worth?

Guess I’ve always assumed that when the world ends, it just
Ends.

Not that a new culture of desert warriors would rise from the irradiated ashes.

cw eating bugs

[imperatour]

Civilization's dead and the soil's sour but people survive.
People gather.
The Citadel had clean water. Garages. Hydroponic gardens. Maggot farmers.

[ What? You've never eaten maggots?? Look at this fancy guy over here. ]

Feels like here, if there was more electricity than what you could get from a guzzoline generator.

[decodex]

( eddie's eaten living, breathing humans. he's in no position to judge. )

And you're gonna go back? Like, when this is all over.
Do you wanna stay in Etraya?

( he's going to need clarification on what 'guzzoline' means at a future date. )

[imperatour]

There are people who need me back there. They deserve a living world.

[ Non-answers for 1000, Alex. ]

[decodex]

Yeah, but…
Is that a yes or a no?

If you had the choice, I mean.

( it’s the journalist in him. )

[imperatour]

Don't know.
Hard to make a choice when it's not really in front of you.

[decodex]

That’s
True.

Yeah, that’s a good point.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot, I guess.

[imperatour]

Would you stay?

[decodex]

I didn’t used to think so. And I still don’t love that we’re all, like, hostages.

But I like the people.

[imperatour]

People are what make a place home, I guess.

[decodex]

Yeah.
I’d say so.

You doing okay here?

[imperatour]

[ For some reason this is the thing that gives her pause. She's not used to people checking in on her. ]

Haven't lost any more limbs.

[ Always a win. She isn't exactly in a position to go from 1 to 0 complete arms. ]

I've survived worse.
Never kissed my way out of a blood sport arena.

[decodex]

( venom wants to talk about her arm but, god, you can’t just ask people why they’re missing limbs. that’s one of those tactful, human practices that aliens are egregiously unfamiliar with. )

Wouldn’t recommend it. There’s, like, no scenario where kissing strangers goes well.

I’m still not entirely convinced that you and my ‘brother’ aren’t coming for me in my sleep.

[imperatour]

[ Disappearing and reappearing ellipses. The suspense!! ]

We're not
It's not like that.
Just to be clear.

[decodex]

( is she sure— )

No, yeah, I know.
You said as much before.

Still, though.

You don’t have to be together together in order to serve up justice. Guzzoline style.

[imperatour]

[ Nothing says "definitely not true" like jumping to assert it multiple times!! ]

You really gotta hate someone before you drench up in fuel and light them up.
Can't waste the guzz.

I talked him down. [ For now. ] Now his only grudge is that you stole his face.

[decodex]

Wait, that’s a thing??

Tell him
Actually, I’ll tell him myself.

[imperatour]

Yeah, think he's the type to hold grudges.

[ Pot, kettle. ]