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i remember now. i was tricked by a troll into flying up to the last gate, using this rocket pack. she said i could take a shortcut and go kill my denizen while he was sleeping. it... did not quite work out that way. This sounds like Terezi's handiwork. i don't know. she didn't tell me her name. she was a blind troll. she made me this incredibly shitty map for me to follow! Yep. That's her. I guess she got 8oth of us then. Un8elieva8le. she tricked you too? Yes. Well, not tricked, so much as made a pointless coin flip and sta88ed me in the 8ack. wow. that's pretty cold blooded! Oh, sure. She was easily the most underhanded and villainous mem8er of our group. 8ut I did let my guard down. And even when she sta88ed me, I sure didn't think I was going to die. why not? It turns out immortality isn't all it's cracked up to 8e. Let's leave it at that. hmm... so i guess you never got around to giving me immortality like you said? or killing me, for that matter. sounds like the blind troll beat you to it. No, I did! 8ut........ Ugh, this will 8e hard to explain to you. explain what? Haha. I guess in her own sick way, she actually set us up on this d8 together. May8e I should thank her whenever she falls asleep? Or dies, god for8id. so... now it is a date? I don't know. I said it wouldn't 8e unless you remem8ered. And now you remem8er. 8ut you still don't remem8er me, do you? nope. Yeah, thought so. This version of you died 8efore I started messing with you. Not that I expect you to understand what that means. no, i get that. if i had decided not to take the shortcut, i would have lived. and then you would have talked to me a lot? Yes, that's right. I guess I should have learned to give you more credit 8y now. well, i might not have figured that out, if not for... some things that just happened. I still can't 8elieve I'm meeting a version of you that doesn't remem8er a thing a8out me. None of my gr8 exploits, or any of the ways I helped you. Only that one stupid time I taunted you! It's a vaguely frustr8ing feeling. sorry... not sure what to tell you! So you remem8er literally nothing I told you a8out myself? Not even the, uh........ Compromising stuff? well, you did just show me around your planet. which was really cool! ... there's compromising stuff? Your species would think so. 8ut I guess it doesn't matter anymore. i guess not. but who says we can't get to know each other again? You wouldn't find that 8oring? no way! not if you wouldn't. you said the name of the blind troll who killed us, but you have not told me yours yet. I haven't? no. ........ It's Vriska. nice to meet you, vriska. i am john! even though you know that. Yes. so now what do we do? aside from be dead for probably ever. Man, I don't know. May8e, You could tell me a8out how you died? What were the "things that just happened" you were talking a8out?
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