“I’m so tired I can’t see in colour anymore.”
“Uh, what the fuck?”
“I’m so tired I can’t see in colour anymore.”
“Uh, what the fuck?”
“One of these days… I’m really going to murder you, you know that?”
“Ye.”
“You’re not concerned at all, are you?”
“Not really tbh.”
“Heck,” says the fae-born “You were lying to me?”
“Not on purpose,” ze says “I didn’t know the truth, then. Now that I do, I’m telling you.”
“Oh,” the fae-born relaxes “Oh, good. If you were lying to me deliberately we’d be fucked because I’d have to kill you.”
“What’s wrong?”
“What isn’t?” xe frowns “We’re all going to die.”
“We’re not,” ze rolls zir eyes “Don’t be so fatalistic. So the world outside is full of zombies trying to eat us alive. None of us have been bitten yet.”
“About that,” xe says.
“I’m in love with you,” xe says “Which is very unfortunate for me because you’re kind of a terrible person.”
“I crave peace,” says the leader of the revolution “But I know not it’s sweet embrace. We’ll carve out our freedom in blood.”
“There must be a better way!”
“We’ve tried.” says the leader “We’ve tried kindness and they see it as passivity, they don’t care for our attempts at a better life. They don’t care for us. So we’ll remove them from our way.”
“C-sections.” say the soon to be parent “It’s not delivery- it’s digiorno!”
“Are you sure you’re not the father,” asks xir partner wryly “That was terrible.”
“Gender is a lie. Like trigonometry.” says the mathematician “Your homework is to figure out a formula for calculating gender based on anything but the human body.”
“What the fuck,” say the students.
“I don’t… how do I say this… like you.”
“Ouch.”
“Are you… okay?”
“Do I look okay?” xe asked. Xe looked flawless- perfectly dressed, with expertly applied cosmetics, shoulders back spine straight.
“No.”