Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28920015-20190421194647/@comment-29194274-20190424005442

"OH, GR34T TH4T SOUNDS L1K3 VO1D LOOK, CH3RRY M4SK 1 N33D YOU TO T3LL M3 3X4CTLY WH4T S3NT YOU RUNN1NG 4S 1T COULD B3 4 M4TT3R OF S3CUR1TY"

"I'm guessing that this 'Void' had gotten to those things we just fought, at which point let me assure you that it wasn't like that... sort of." Crow mumbles the last part, and has to duck to avoid Terezi's swinging cane.

"1 TOLD YOU TO T3LL M3, BOY! NOT T4LK 4BOUT TH1NGS YOU DON'T UND3RST4ND!" Terezi nigh-roars, bringing her cane back down to the ground.

Taking a step back, Crow cedes and explains, "It was... How do I best explain this? It was speaking but it wasn't. It was just so perfect, it was freaking me out. It was 'speaking' so smoothly, it was so charismatic, it was just way too good to be true. It was offering things, both possible and impossible. I ran because for a moment I nearly said yes and that genuinely frightened me. I needed to just clear my head, and I thought it might have been coming from the house. But I'm done with working for people when all I get in return is misery, pain and near death experiences." Crow sounds pretty ashamed about the fact that he nearly gave into something that, for all he knows, is some massive Lovecraftian bullshit thing, but he spits the last part out angrily, clearly thinking about someone.

While Terezi is concerned that the Void is changing up tactics, she's relieved that people can say no, even if they're momentarily bad. "UNFORTUN4T3LY, TH4T W4S TH3 VO1D FORTUN4T3LY, HOW3V3R, 1S TH4T YOU S41D *NO* TH4T'S 4 V3RY R34SSUR1NG S1GN, 4ND, JUDG1NG BY YOUR 4NGRY R34CT1ON, W3 HOP3FULLY WON'T H4V3 TO WORRY 4BOUT YOU SP3C1F1C4LLY! WHY 1T T4RG3T3D YOU? 1 DON'T KNOW, 1T M4Y H4V3 B33N T4RG3TT1NG 4 BRO4D3R GROUP TH4T YOU H4PP3N3D TO F4LL UND3R"