DAMIEN CATCHALL

[fleshedout]

GIVE ME A SHITPOST

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[highrisk]

[ what is it then.............. ]

[fleshedout]

...I'm helping Shale. That's all.

[highrisk]

What, by running errands for them?

[fleshedout]

No. It's a nice change of pace to work on their garden sometimes. Quiet. I don't have to deal with people, and they leave me alone.

[highrisk]

... Can't they just grow all the plants using color?

[fleshedout]

That's an easy way to do it, sure. But it isn't about growing as much as doing work with your hands. Don't you have any ways to take your mind off things, Damien?

[highrisk]

[ like he is genuinely confused by idea: ]

Not really?

[fleshedout]

...

What do you do, stare at the wall all day?

[highrisk]

Nah, I...

[ what does he do... ]

Read? People watch?

[fleshedout]

...Who do you even watch? Do you have anyone around you at home?

[is she maybe implying he doesn't have friends]

[highrisk]

I don't live in the middle of nowhere.

[ none friends. but? p... people? ]

[fleshedout]

Like...a park? Are you homeless, Damien?

[BRUTAL?]

[highrisk]

[ WOW ]

I'm not homeless! I have money.

[fleshedout]

From what? People watching?

[highrisk]

It was a gift.

An... Incentive.

[fleshedout]

For one of your...."hunger games", as you like to call it?

[highrisk]

What the - no. Those are made up. They're books and movies.

We don't actually do battle royales or hunger games in my world, Jesus.

[fleshedout]

I actually have no idea what those are. I was guessing. Come on.

[highrisk]

Think of it as...

Witness protection.

[fleshedout]

...

So you saw something you shouldn't? Maybe you should cut the people watching out, Damien. You're too good at it.

[highrisk]

[ ... that actually makes him laugh! ]

Sure. Yeah. I'm cutting back.

[fleshedout]

[Wow, a laugh.]

Never thought I'd hear that from you. [A beat.] So, since you're here, are you looking for something to read?

[highrisk]

[ rude! ]

Yeah. Gotta replace the people watching with something.

[fleshedout]

What do you like to read?

[highrisk]

Anything. Fantasy most of all, but - anything's fine.