AUDIENCE: KANO

[retellers]

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[retellers]

[ they stare at them ]

Maybe I'll try to make them grow into a plant.

[suddenlybees]

You'll only need the seeds for that, though! What about the rest of the tomato?

[retellers]

I can't test them to see if they're poisoned. They have to go.

[suddenlybees]

[ Kano holds his hand out. ]

[retellers]

[ there's a pause and then they give him back the tomatoes??? ]

[suddenlybees]

[ He eats one of the tomatoes and passes the bag back to swan.

chew chew swallow ]

There. Now we'll both die.

[retellers]

That's not better? That's not better at all?? [ they. they do take the bag back, though ] I know this is supposed to be "I wouldn't poison myself on purpose", but you really have a way to make it sound worse every time.

[suddenlybees]

Haha~ You know what I mean, though, right? So isn't that good enough?

[ better than trying to be like this around Rabbit and Goat; it's tough speaking circles around people who'll take him seriously at face value ]

[retellers]

It is. If you're secretly immune to poison and you poisoned me, though, I'm gonna be sooo mad.

[ they pop a tomato in their mouth despite that, so how serious were they ]

[suddenlybees]

Fair! I'm used to people being mad at me~

[ Never bothered him! But it's a good cherry tomato, juicy and sweet and with that faintly grassy aftertaste that sun ripened garden tomatoes have.

Any potential poisoning won't be immediate anyways. ]

[retellers]

[ Can't believe all my threads have to be retconned when Swan drops dead on monday ]

You sound way too okay about that. You shouldn't want to make people mad. [ a beat as they consider; ] At least not like, all the time.

[suddenlybees]

[ Yeah. ]

Are there times when making people mad is okay? First time I've heard anybody think that!

[retellers]

Well, sometimes people tell you not to do stuff, but you have to, so of course they'll be mad at you when you do it anyway, but they'll get over it!

[ swan. ]

[suddenlybees]

Yeah, yeah, that's how it is! People get mad, but they'll get over it! And if they don't, it's alright too!

[ It's amazing how much you can do when you just don't care about other people's opinions. ]

[retellers]

Ha... Well, um, okay, that might be a bit too much. What if you get your friends stay mad at you forever?

[ swan is so full of hopes and dreams ]

[suddenlybees]

Isn't that okay? You can be mad at somebody and still be friends.

[ Kano has maybe two friends. Either he has the utmost faith in them, or he knows shit about friendship. ]

[retellers]

Of course you can, but you can't be mad at someone forever and still be friends.

[suddenlybees]

[ go to sleep ]

Sure you can. One of my best friends is mad at me all the time, and she's gonna be mad at me forever.

[retellers]

Okay but that's not REAL mad, that's you're being stupid but that's why we're friends mad, right?

[suddenlybees]

[ He sure hopes people aren't insisting to be friends just because he's stupid ]

It's like... breaking bones mad. Real bad.

[retellers]

Okay, if someone wants to break your bones, they're definitely not your friend.

[suddenlybees]

Oh. Well, that rules out all of my friend candidates. Guess I'm back down to zero.

[retellers]

[ there's a kind of. awkward laugh there ]

What-- look, you can't possibly be that terrible that all of your friends want to break your bones!

[suddenlybees]

[ Laughing at Kano's sad state, thanks ): ]

All my friends want to break my bones.

[retellers]

All of them? All the time?