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Don't know. Didn't think that guy could do shit.

[But he's knocking at her door anyway.]

He does like to talk a lot of shit.

[ But he's fought beside her so she'll keep it at that. Once he knocks, through the door- ]

Come on in!

[He opens the door, setting the guns and knives on the first surface he can find.]

Hey, hey.

[ She's walking up, looking over the pile, and he's getting a warm smile up at him.]

Hey, lookit you: all in one piece. I'm a fan.

Mostly. Got a couple of stitches.

[He holds up his wrapped hand and arm.]

That's still all together. It's just one piece with help.

[ She gestures to the rest of the cabin. ]

Feel free to take a seat. Water?

[He does sit and hold out a hand expectantly.]

I'm not going to fall apart if the stitches pop.

Yeah, yeah, you're a big tough man. I know.

[ He'll get a waterbottle. ]

Tell me what else is going on.

What do you mean? Fucking nothing. Clean up.

[He takes it and immediately opens it, drinking deeply.]

Not just with what happened. Just... life.

I'm fucking my afterlife up. It's all a goddamn mess, Saga. That answer anything?

This isn't your afterlife, [ and she says that with a very gentle sort of look, but it's certainly direct ] this is the gas station. Tell me about the mess?

It's all stupid girly shit.

[He pauses immediately after he says it, realizing who he's talking to, and groans.]

Not like that. It's just - fuck. It's not shit I'm used to talking about.

Then it's a good thing I'm pretty patient.

[ Which is all she's going to say. Her eyes, however, are asking him to let her help.]

[There are a couple of false starts and then he shakes his head.]

I don't even know where to begin. I don't do relationships. Have a couple of people I've been sleeping with, but it ain't like you can avoid them forever, right? Not here.

[ That is a slow nod because yeah, the closed quarters definitely makes things awkward. And she follows that up with another nod, more wry this time. ]

Relationships are a lot. It's never really been something I'm good at either. I don't even know how I'd handle something like that here.

It was fine when it was just sex. That's easy.

[He waves a hand.]

Aren't you married?

[ She'll raise an eyebrow at that. ]

And? [ she shakes her head ] David and I try pretty hard to make what we have work. 'Just sex' is a lot easier.

Yeah.

[Well, color him surprised.]

Until it ain't.

Until it's not 'just sex'?

[ Peeeeeer. ]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Until you feel like shit when they leave.

So then you just want to be - friends, whatever the hell that means. But it doesn't work out, either. So now you're - something else.

But it doesn't matter because you're both dead.

[ She's giving him a very flat look at that last one. ]

Look pretty alive to me right now. Never heard of a dead guy with relationship problems. So moving on from that-

[ She tilts her head. ]

What happened with 'friends'?

Dunno. Guess we both just wanted more than friends.

So now we sleep together, they don't leave right away, and the whole thing just isn't about sex.

They sleep with who they want. I guess I can do the same thing.

Not really into it.

So... [ she's parsing this with a bit more vocabulary, vocabulary she had to learn herself- ] you're in an open relationship. But you'd like to close the relationship.

Have you talked to them about the possibility of closing the relationship? That that's something you would?

No. God. No. That's the fastest way to make them run away.

It's fine. Fuck. It's alright. It's just - stupid. Like I said.

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