VERTILINE [ 4 ]

[lilyground]

Hi, everyone! It's Lily. [She always has to introduce herself!] I'm, uh, really glad the whole statue thing is over. Everyone's okay, right? Everyone's back to normal, right? That's good. ... Except the broken statues, I guess. They're... kind of... dead. I guess. That's not so good. But it's still good that everything's over. Hopefully that won't

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[missmimmi]

I do not know an Eliot, Lily. I am sorry.

[lilyground]

Oh! That's okay. He's probably still here, so maybe you can meet him.

[Denial? I don't know what that means!]

[missmimmi]

Ja, he might be here still.

I would love to meet a friend of yours, of course. Perhaps we should look for him? Do you know where his pod is?

[lilyground]

Umm... no. I don't. I don't know his usual haunts, either. I've just been sort of walking around hoping to run into him. Thaaat hasn't been very successful.

[misguides]

Don't know any Eliot. Sorry, kid.

[He actually means that, for a change.]

[lilyground]

That's okay. No big deal.

[HUGE DEAL]

[misguides]

Obviously it is, or you wouldn't have asked.

...What's he look like?

[lilyground]

... Okay, maybe a little. But not too bad. He's, uh. Average height, I think. Brown hair. Might have a violin. Kind of awkward.

[knowsvinewhip]

What is it your friend looks like?

[lilyground]

Brown hair, really awkward... Wow, that's kind of generic. He might have a violin? Or he might be reading? He does that. Reading. And violins. Playing violins.

[knowsvinewhip]

Ah, he sounds like quite the intelligent young man.

Do you know where he lived?

[lilyground]

No. I don't. But yeah, he was so smart. He knew like, everything. It was incredible.

[fallintheriver]

Maybe he's dead.

[lilyground]

He's not dead.

[fallintheriver]

But you don't know where he is.

[lilyground]

That doesn't mean he's dead.