@Pratt

[theweakhavepurpose]

Since we're all asking for shit on the network... Has anyone seen any Doritos in any of the vending machines?

Specifically Cool Ranch but I'll take anything.

I don't have anything to trade unless you want to pet a wolf. Free wolf pets for Doritos. Sounds fair.

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[theweakhavepurpose]

Looking at a lake doesn't also get you dinner. Clean your fish, wrap 'em in foil and then you can have a bonfire to cook them. Watch the flames against the night sky. That's actually the best part of Montana. Big Sky Country. More stars then you think is possible.

[He sounds more than a little nostalgic. Homesick for a place where he's busily dying - but he can't help it. For the first 20 something years of his life he'd absolutely loved it.]

Oh. That sucks.

[He deflates a little, some of the weird tension building in his spine evaporating. He's not sure what exactly has set him on edge - probably the fact that they're so similar that it's bringing up bad memories. But he's actually a little proud of himself that he's managed to have a conversation for more than fifteen minutes with someone who doesn't think he's a complete fucking mess.

Yet.]

Guess it's good to get away from .. that.

[Whatever THAT is.]

[benhargreeves]

That... actually does sound great.

[ Ben had been joking before but now it does sting, a little, thinking that he won't ever have a day like that. Freedom, an open sky... Even if being alive here has been wonderful, the Anchor is a closed space. The options here are limited and there is no point in denying it. He'd never had that kind of freedom when he was alive on Earth, and being a ghost made it hard to enjoy most things.

But it's nice, in a slightly sad way, to hear the way Pratt talks about it. To imagine what it would be like to love a place in that way. ]

Yeah.

[ Ben could tell Pratt he'd been away, in a way, from his father for a long time. He could mention his brothers were here and it meant more to have THEM finally free of his shadow. He could even mention the fact that his dad had been a monster, too, but that he'd killed himself just a few short weeks ago. But the thing about the all the fucked up family stuff is that there's no good place to start and besides, it is not something anyone wants to hear, probably. Just sordid, awful, depressing, boring garbage. So he shifts his weight from foot to foot, awkwardness radiating from him as he just lets that conversation drop without offering up anything more.

But despite that, and his slip by asking about Jacob, when Pratt and Ben say their goodbyes, he walks away feeling more good than bad. He'd connected with someone. Talked to them, gotten through it. And Pratt seemed to not completely hate him, so far at least, and that's... well it's something to celebrate, even if it is tiny. ]