"Mm. Alright, I guess. I want to do something, though, to let him know I don't hate him or anything and I do feel bad about the whole thing. I mean, I still don't have much stuff, and he won't visit Kinoko anyway, so I've got lots of time to decide."

"Yeah, you've definitely got time. I don't think you did anything wrong, for what it's worth." 

"Yeah. It's good to meet my new neighbors! Punz said I shouldn't join because it's a ghost town but I figure, maybe I can make it a bit better? Also it's a really beautiful free house in a gorgeous area next to all my friends. I asked Alex if Las Nevadas had any empty apartments, to be fair, and it didn't, so. I don't remember if I asked Bad about the Badlands but honestly I don't know if I want to get involved in the stuff he was talking about."

Doesn't Las Nevadas have that giant hotel no one lives in? —not the point. "It is a bit of a ghost town but I believe in us! I don't actually think I've met Bad, I haven't been here very long." 

"Longer than me, I just joined yesterday! Bad's really nice, you should definitely say hi to him. He's the, uh, sort of black smoke looking guy with the red and black color scheme and the glowing white eyes and the big horns, likes muffins, doesn't like swearing? I could introduce you sometime but honestly I don't know him that well either. You could ask Sapnap."

'Likes muffins and doesn't like swearing' is such a way to describe a person. "I should! Tomorrow maybe I will, actually." 

Tina squeals. "It's cool that you're new too, like, obviously less new, but at least I'm not the only one, you know?"

"Yeah, definitely! I've been here about a month? It's great to not be the only new guy." 

"I haven't talked to the other new people yet but I think there's a few of us, it's exciting!"

"You, me, and Eryn, right? I'm just really glad to know people where I'm probably not gonna find myself in pits of horrible missing context all the time, honestly." 

"I think someone was going to join today too?" She checks her phone. "Yeah, Boomer's here now!"

Another name he doesn't know. Not that he'd expect to know everyone's alts even if they did exist, Panem's big— "Oh, neat, I haven't really been checking." 

"I don't think there's going to be anyone else but I don't really know?"

"Neither do I, I hadn't actually heard there were gonna be new people at all—" 

He'll talk to Tina for a while longer but he did not actually get any sleep last night and if he's here too long he will a little bit start falling asleep on his feet. 

"Oh no, Q, you should-- probably get some sleep, I'm sorry for keeping you. Do you have anything you want me to tell Karl or Sapnap?"

It's so nice to talk to someone who's just unabashedly nice. 

...that was a tired thought. He is thinking this because he is tired.

"I should in fact probably do that, you are not wrong. I'm good, I think, but thanks for the offer, I'll see you tomorrow?" 

"See you tomorrow!"

Tired smile. He really does like Tina. And then he is going to go home and flop for the next sixteen hours. 

(He dreams about the smell of cigarette smoke and what are you going to do, beg? cry about it? and Wilbur and Wil and faces that blend together. It's not a bad night, all told.) 

When he wakes up, George is awake, too. He and Sapnap are outside talking; when he sees Q, he waves. "Oh, look, it's Quackity. Want to come with us?"

Wait, George can wake up?? At this point he'd kind of assumed he was in a coma or something. 

"Uh, yeah, sure! Where are you guys going?" 

George throws Q a few pieces of TNT. "Around," he says, drawing the word out.

"Hey, you didn't give me--"

"Stop whining, you have 40 TNT and a flame bow. And a sword. And an axe."

"Still."

Apparently the sound of George and Sapnap bickering over stupid shit is exactly the same everywhere. He takes the TNT. "Thank you, thank you. Got any special plans for—" he mimics George's accent— "around?"