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[tonsofpun]

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.]

Comments

[windbreak]

Uh, are we? [Oh, whoops - going by the way he acts about it, dude probably doesn't want that part spread around too loudly... Yosuke laughs, transparently trying to blow it off.] I just meant, um - he's a good kid, but some of the stories he'll tell around a campfire if you let him...

[tonsofpun]

I've talked to him a few times. He's got a pretty good heart.

[Better than most, but also sadder.]

[windbreak]

Heh, that sounds like him. Gotta wonder if he's secretly any better with puns...

[tonsofpun]

Maybe I should ask him, next time we catch him.

Are you guys close or anything?

[windbreak]

Yeah, he's a friend of ours too! [Which is good enough for Yosuke's sense of boundaries!] Pretty friendly guy, period. But if you ask me, the stories have more impact right when you're least expecting them...

[That should cover the bullshit he just came up with, right!?]

[tonsofpun]

So what kind of stories does he tell around campfires?

[As far as she knows, the only stories she's heard from him are the real ones, but those are depressing as hell.]

[windbreak]

[If he had a scrap of sense, now is when he'd find some way to bow out of the conversation before he could really give away anything he thinks Ryoji might find sensitive. He doesn't.]

Well...! He's a guy from the city, right? Iwatodai? There's always stuff going on there! I mean, I'm not bad at it either!

[tonsofpun]

... uh, okay.

[Yeah, definitely fishy. What's your issue, bro?]

[windbreak]

[Aw man, she probably thinks he's even weirder now... But at least he managed not to spill anything like "oh yeah and my other buddy says he's literally the harbinger of the apocalypse". With a little, embarrassed chuckle, he cuts the conversation off before he can.]

[tonsofpun]

[Yep, definitely an odd duck.]