Crysteelia



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    Ekko shrugs. "All I know is if Jinx had run back into the fire, I'd probably give her the silent treatment too. Lord knows I couldn't be angry at her to her face."

    "That's totally different. You guys are dating."

    Ekko gives Jayce another look, more exasperated this time. "Right. So different."

    (Jayce runs into a burning building. Viktor gives him the silent treatment after, and Jayce can't understand why.)

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    “Oh, and … as it’s our first day, I thought, maybe we could have a team lunch? For, er, bonding purposes. At my expense, of course.”

    The words ‘team lunch’ sat very awkwardly in Jon’s mouth - a man who ate at his desk, unless practically levered away from it; who had never been seen at a works do, except for that one Halloween party, where he’d worked late and had to squeeze his way through a sea of slightly tipsy vampires and werewolves, to get out of the building - but there was no way that Tim was turning down either free food, or the chance to see Jonathan Sims’ earnest attempt at ‘bonding’.

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    “Do … do any of you three listen to, ah, the podcast ‘What the Ghost?’ at all? The last episode, particularly.”

    “What the what now?”

    It rang a bell, actually, now that Tim thought about it; but not in any context that made sense in the same general region as Jonathan Sims.

    “Is that the podcast about hauntings?” Martin perked up a little at knowing the answer. “And, well, spooky stuff?”

    And, right, that was why Tim had suffered a cognitive disconnect. The podcast was a popular, light-hearted and open-minded exploration of the supernatural, while Jon’s relationship to the supernatural was one of exasperated dismissal. Why on earth he even worked here in the first place … but that just led to thoughts of why Tim, himself, was here and to unhealed wounds and … Tim would prefer to gently mock Jon for listening to a ‘spooky’ podcast, of his own apparent volition.

    “Yes, Martin, it deals with … ‘spooky’ stuff. And, also, apparently, practical jokes.”

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    It took Jon a while to come to some conclusions about precisely why his latest ‘power’ was so unsettling to him.

    Unexpected French comprehension was, after all, objectively far less horrifying than becoming physically dependent on other people’s trauma.

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    The agony of having a crush: Jon is one specific person, but really, he could be anyone.

    Or, he could have been anyone, until the day he walks into the cafe carrying a porcelain clown doll, because Martin is dead certain that that is not something anyone else has ever, will ever, could ever do.

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