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Okay, time to lighten the mood.

[Because after all this shit that's happened, she needs to smile. She needs something, anything, to take her mind off all of this and for a second, remember that being alive is good, and right.

And maybe to remember a simpler time.]

I've got this book of puns, right? Well, back in the day, it kinda used to be my thing. And I figure you guys could use this. Or groan, whatever.

Here goes.

A clown held the door open for me the other day.
I thought it was a nice jester.

The butcher backed up into the meat grinder.
He got a little behind in his work.

Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food coloring.
The doctor says I'm okay, but I feel like I've dyed a little inside.

Pffft.

The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

[That one actually makes her laugh out loud.]

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I've never heard of Bill Murray.

[But there's smiles all through her voice, now. She loves stuff like this, from before the world went to hell.]

Tell me some.

[ o-ow. it's like a Nam flashback, man. suddenly she's hearing Tallahassee saying "That's like saying you never heard of Ghandi" and it takes her a second to ..remember to react with more than just a long stupid pause ]

Eh, it's alright. My sister doesn't know who he is either.

[ and all of his movie quotes aren't going to sound that funny without context, ah. damnit. ]

There's this one line from Kingpin I abuse pretty regularly, but it's not funny, it's just "You're on a gravy train with biscuit wheels." It just speaks to me. And there's also pretty much any line from Ghostbusters, even if it's completely irrelevant. Finding a reason to shout "don't cross the streams!" is a pretty normal occurrence in my car.

[Ellie gets this a lot, at least. She's not terribly discouraged. Just the excitement in Wichita's voice is enough to get her interested.]

Okay, okay, back up- cross what streams?

[ she laughs ] This is going to sound batshit, but it came out in the 80s, so hear me out. The movie is about these guys who --bust ghosts, yeah, and the machine they use to do it is basically a paranormal vacuum, two dudes wear it on their backs and have to work as a team. And to catch the ghosts they have to aim these like, laser jet streams of sciencey power at the ghost, trap it between the two streams, and lower it down into this box thing that somehow traps it. But if you cross the streams it just blows up and ruins everything, so, can't cross the streams.

I like to think of it as my token "don't fuck this up" catchphrase.

Oh, shit-

No, dude, that sounds amazing. D'you think we could try to find that movie somewhere? I mean, they have working stuff for that here-

-- Do they have movies from our worlds? You don't don't even know how much I could go for a proper movie night.

I dunno, but Ryan and I watched something about space sharks or something like that. Bad horror movies and all.

Space sharks. [ not that Wichita really watches a lot of bad horror movies, or horror movies in general ( typical, that her life would become one ) but she repeats it like it might ring a bell ] I've got nothin'.

And Ghostbusters was actually pretty creepy, but it's more funny than anything else. Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. Ah.

[ she pinches her fingers together and kisses them, like she's talking about a delicious pizza. mwah! ]

Comedic perfection.

Okay, you've got me convinced. If we find Ghostbusters, you and me, movie night.

Deal?

Deal.

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