TINY CAT PEOPLE: THE MAZE TRIALS

[skinstealer]

 

SEE: So…
 

You’ve got a lot of questions in mind, and you’ll be honest, it’s kind of making it hard to chill. You feel a little weird around the edges the more you start thinking about this stuff, but it’ll be fine, right?

 
SEE: You know the overseers by name?
SEE: What are they like?
SAMSON: Ha! By name? No, J is clearly just a pseudonym of some sort.
SAMSON: We don't know them at all.
ROXAS: We can make best guesses from what knowledge we have, but that's about it.
ROXAS: We have heard some things and the most likely thing is that there's... several overseers, each one watching a small handful of TCPs at a time.
ROXAS: We think.
SAMSON: We don't know anything for certain, though. 
SEE: ...is it possible to talk to mine?
SEE: They all use the same voice...
 

Samson scoffs.

 
SAMSON: If you want to waste the questions you get from impressions on that, sure.
SAMSON: I don't think you'll get anything worthwhile from that though.
SEE: Guess not...
 

 

You're definitely starting to feel something, but it's not strong enough to really pin it down. 

 
SEE: What's in that chest you have up on the shelf, anyway?
SEE: Is it games? What kind of games do you have?
SAMSON: Nah it's not games. The games we have are on the shelves below it.
SAMSON: In the like, little box case things.
SEE: Then...what is in there?
SAMSON: Weed. 
SEE: ...ah.
SEE: Sweet.
 

You start staring into space.

 
ROXAS: You uh, you doing good little bud?
SEE: ...did you know I'm a food type? I'm a food type.
 

 
SEE: Food...types.
SEE: People eat me.
 

Roxas sits down on the bed and nods slowly, the weed clearly hitting them hard.

 
ROXAS: Dang dude, that's messed up. 
SEE: If somebody, like...eats me...
SEE: Are they also eating weed?
SEE: Am I weed now?
ROXAS: Damn dude... weed and chocolate?
ROXAS: Sounds like a sweet combo...
ROXAS: People should like...
ROXAS: I think we stumbled on something great that no one else has thought about.
SEE: Wait, like, are you gonna eat me now?
SEE: I mean, other people have eaten me but not with weed. I'm a healer. It heals people.
SEE: Does weed heal people?
TODD: Nah we're not like, we're not hurt.
TODD: We could like, take some and store it for later I guess.
TODD: Weed doesn't heal, it's an adon- andonine- ano-
TODD: Painkiller.
TODD: Think it can be used by people who have like, flesh, for inflammation or somethin though.
SEE: So...through the power of weed...
SEE: I can make people feel better?
SEE: Fuck...I may have to add that to my medic plans.
ROXAS: I...
ROXAS: I guess??
SEE: Like...shit, I'm really onto something.
SEE: Maybe I could just...
 

You start spacing out again.

 

SEE: ...do you gamers like, sleep in the same bed? 
SEE: Or do you take turns?
CAYDEN: It's a tight fit, but we make it work.
SEE: So...all at once? All scrunched up?
CAYDEN: Well, it's not too scrunched, but yeah.
SEE: Cool...I bet it's like...one big hug.
TODD: Yeah.... basically
SEE: I've been hugged a few times, it's...kind of awesome.
SEE: Everybody keeps picking me up, though? Like, all the time.
SEE: Am I just...portable? Do people do this with chocolate?
SEE: Is everybody just constantly-
SEE: Picking people up...
 

You don't wait for a response. 

 
SEE: ...is the smoke dangerous? There's so fucking much of it.
SEE: Like, wow.
TODD: I don't... think so. I mean, we don't like...
TODD: ...
TODD: ...
TODD: ...Have organs or anything. So like, nothing to hurt with the smoke.
TODD: ...I think.
SEE: Yeah, like...I'm just...chocolate.
SEE: People aren't usually chocolate, right?
SEE: They're all, like, squishy. 
SEE: And full of that fluid stuff.
SEE: Man...
 

 

Okay, you're starting to feel way, way weirder now, and not necessarily in a good way. Thinking about fluid makes you think about Max and the stains on his bandages, the fact that something cut him open...

You don't like this train of thought one bit.

ROXAS: Yeah, us TCPs are just.... Sacks of weird squishy fluid.
ROXAS: ...Hey bud, you doin' okay?