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What are you trying to avoid saying?
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Sorry.
I SHOULD be more direct, as your coworker.
I've had trouble with this in the past. The er
god thing as a whole.
As I said, I try to keep myself in check nowadays, but...
On occasion,
[... Will it ever get easier to be direct about this?]
My brain can be uncooperative and get the better of me.
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Marco...
We want to bring people together. We want people to realize that they can be happy here, if they want to be. We want to heal this planet.
We don't have any ulterior motives.
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He reads this twice.
He reads it three times.]
"We"?
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She's a friend of mine from home.
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And she's the one following the Fog God.
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Marco.
Do you really not know?
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I suppose we should just be direct with each other then.
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I'm a Fog follower.
Have been for several months now, actually...
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[That's... what he was afraid of.
Except, as he reminds himself, there's no reason to be afraid. He trusts Fiddleford, he's trusted Larry up until now, and he has thoroughly established that being aligned with the Fog doesn't mean you're evil.
The fact that has to actively remind himself of all this doesn't mean it's any less true. In fact, the rational part of him understands that it likely makes it even MORE true, which is fun when your brain insists on believing things that are not.]
Well, why didn't you say so sooner?
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I'm sure I've talked to McGucket about it by the water cooler a few times by now.
Look. I know that there's a lot of sick people out there who use her name to justify what they do. But you don't need to worry -- you know me.
[For better or for worse, Larry doesn't hide anything -- especially his coworkers.]
There's plenty of people eager to personify her wrath. It's about time someone stepped up to the plate to represent her love.
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[He knows Larry, that's true. That ought to help. More than a valued coworker, and despite his tastes in decor, Larry is a good man. He shouldn't have to worry, not at all.
But the word "love", when applied to the Fog God, makes his stomach twist and turn.]
Again, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to come off as aggressive about this, so that's my bad.
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Aren't you in with the Fourth?
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I'm one of his priests.
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Well, I can't lie, it hasn't always been great.
But I think I've been doing much better in recent years.
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He's a kid.
One that didn't ask for this, to boot.
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Isn't that all the more reason to help him?
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You said it yourself, he's a kid.
[And since Larry is, after all, a trusted coworker... Maybe Marco ought to say this much, too. Be just a little more upfront about his motives.]
One who didn't have a good father.
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I suppose you could say that's part of it, in a certain sense
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I've been a bad influence on him in the past, so I try to do the opposite now.
Of course I can't ground him or anything, but maybe that's not necessary.