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Eric did not like the idea of going to Selvadorada very much, but Peter really wanted to.
Eric did not know why Peter really wanted to.
Wait, he did, it was because Peter wanted to find alexandrite in Selvadorada.
Eric does not want to go to Selvadorada, but maybe it will be okay? Tae-hwan will be there.
Eric is in love with Tae-hwan. He hopes they can get married soon.
"I just—I need to know what happened. What made you—flip. How did it happen? I was starting to think I was definitely the only one but if it happened to someone else within three weeks of me then maybe it'll be happening a lot more..."
"It seemed to be because Tae-hwan died? But it can't just be because you're so in love with him, people lose loved ones all the time?"
Man, is he so in love with Tae-hwan? He's—definitely very fond of Tae-hwan, but—saying that he's in love is...
...he'll think about that later because hooo boy that'll be its own can of worms.
"I, uh... I was really upset, yeah, but..."
"...it just felt like something didn't make sense. Like it was incorrect that... Tae-hwan had fallen down that hole and was dead, and then suddenly you weren't there and you were instead where Tae-hwan was, and..." What was he feeling? What was he thinking? He mostly wasn't, the entire day, his entire life, is just fog, it has no detail and no resolution. But, "I was confused. You were very confusing, that was the thing I felt most often about you, was that you were a confusing person. You didn't act the way I expected you to act. And something about that whole—thing—was confusing in the same way."
"The... thing that was happening was confusing? Like, confusing confusing or like, I can't imagine a world without Tae-hwan in it confusing, or?"
"Confusing confusing, like, there was something that should be happening and it wasn't what was happening and I didn't understand why and I didn't know what to do about what was happening instead? I think?"
"I think so. Like, not just you, but I was definitely confused by you. By how you... got there. And why I couldn't. And just, what you were doing."
"Well that's... less reassuring. I don't want to personally need to be the catalyst of other people becoming people."
"Well, maybe it won't need to be you personally, maybe anyone who's like us could do it."
"CANNONBALL!" cries out Zachary, teleporting into the air above the pool to drop into it.
"No wait now I'm curious, too." It's suddenly clicking to Eric that probably a lot of the times Peter sounded like that it was because he wanted to say something more complicated than what he actually said and what he thought people could understand.
Eric is... starting to understand why Peter felt so lonely.
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