“…You know, I think I realized what the discs actually mean.”

"I am not even sure what they are."

“Oh! Oh, they’re, uh, they’re just discs? They make music when you put them in the fancy box? They aren’t— special or anything, Dream and Tommy could just. Get more of them. Except— they are, because that’s not what they’re fighting over, they’re fighting over— whether Dream should get to do whatever he wants. Whether we’re going to let him do that.”

"I have not encountered those. --But I have seen... similar conflicts."

“—I can show you one later, if you want. You have?”

He is going to be so, so careful of his phrasing here. "He could do anything he wanted, but whether he should have made certain decisions-- that is open for debate. In theory."

“Oh. Okay. …You, uh, you realize he’s not here, right? Unless…he…is…?”

"I do not believe he is, no. --I do not want to speak poorly of him, either."

“Oh. So you were— on his side?”

"He is my father." It's truthful, if not technically an answer to Ranboo's question.

“Ohhhhhhhh. Ohhhhh boy, I hope, uh, yeah. I didn’t mean to, uh. I’ll. Shut up now.”

"It's fine."

“That’s, uh. Good. Yeah.” Wow this is incredibly awkward. “I, uh. It’s getting dark, we should— we should probably head home soon?”

"That would be a good idea. Tubbo, can you walk?"

“Yeah, I think I’m fine to walk now.” He’s not twitching; when he stands, he seems to have his balance mostly back. 

"That's good." Though Jingyan does take a circuitous route back to his house that lets him stay near Tubbo in case he falls. (Especially considering the crater situation.)

Tubbo doesn’t fall! There’s water in the crater, anyway; it’d be annoying to climb back up but he wouldn’t get hurt. 

Still, its worthwhile making sure he doesn't fall.

Jingyan goes to his house and back to bed.

When he wakes up, the walls are notably shorter! They're not completely gone, but it's clearly a work in progress.

He goes to find Tubbo. "Dream is keeping his promises, at least," he says, quietly enough that there is no way Dream could hear that unless he had managed to sneak right behind them.

"Yeah. I wasn't very worried about it, honestly, he hasn't scammed us except when we're scamming him." Tubbo matches Jingyan's volume on reflex.

"...that's good to know."

"Yeah. I kinda expect that's why he didn't take the walls down right away, he was waiting to see if we'd take Tommy back. --Which, I mean, we will, but... You know what I mean."

"--He should be able to hold out until the walls are fully down."

"Yeah. He'll-- yeah."