Flesh-Stick: IT’S OKAY. HE WAS PRETTY MEAN TO YOU. I DON’T THINK HE MEANT IT, I THINK HE WAS JUST UPSET, BUT STILL…NOBODY EXPECTS YOU TO JUST SIT THERE POLITELY WHEN SOMEBODY PULLS A KNIFE ON YOU.
ANYWAY, I DOUBT THEY ACTUALLY MISS ME IN THE SALON. I DIDN’T REALLY BELONG THERE. BUT THAT’S OKAY. THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER PLACES SOMEONE LIKE ME IS MORE SUITED FOR. I WAS THINKING OF JOINING THIS EXPEDITION TO GO KILL SORROW SPIDERS! IT SOUNDS REALLY COOL! DO YOU WANNA COME?
"Still, I know he wasn’t a threat. . .
I was planning on coming. It sounds exciting and my life has mostly just been talking to urchins lately. I could see some excitement. Keep these old bones and rusty gears in shape."
Marshy runs in, followed by Maria "FLESHY! Good you are still alive… I messed up, didn’t I? I didn’t mean to hurt you…’
Flesh-Stick: OF COURSE I’M STILL ALIVE, MARIA! WHY DID YOU THINK I WAS DEAD? AND WHAT ARE YOU APOLOGIZING FOR?
The thief scratches the back of her head "Well… you didn’t sound good, wanted to go to the tomb colonies, so I thought bad things happened and I wanted to apologize for causimg them with my advice…"[li]
Flesh-Stick: OH! I WAS JUST KIDDING WHEN I SAID I WANTED TO GO TO THE TOMB COLONIES. I WAS EXAGGERATING, LIKE “OMG I’M SO EMBARRASSED I WANT TO MOVE TO THE TOMB COLONIES FOR A COUPLE OF DECADES UNTIL THIS BLOWS OVER!” I DIDN’T THINK YOU’D TAKE ME LITERALLY. SORRY IF I MADE YOU WORRY.
ANYWAY, THAT WHOLE MESS IN THE SALON DIDN’T HAPPEN BECAUSE OF YOU. I KNOW YOU TOLD ME TO TELL ELI HOW I FELT BUT I WAS NEVER ACTUALLY GOING TO CAUSE HE HAD A GIRLFRIEND. SHE AND I JUST HAD A…ER…KIND OF A FIGHT…OKAY, IT WAS A REALLY BIG FIGHT, AND I BLURTED IT OUT CAUSE I’M AN IDIOT. IT WASN’T CAUSE OF YOU, I JUST LOST MY TEMPER. DON’T FEEL BAD ABOUT IT, OKAY?