halved | catch-all: ashlyn.

Y... Yes... But it sounds weirder than it needs to be when you call it that.

I'm just calling it what it is.

I know.

Whatever it's called, I want to know what's going on.

... Yeah, me too. There has to be a reason why they keep returning it. Why would a thief steal something just to give it back?

Maybe something bad happens while they have it.

Huh... That would make sense.

Maybe it's leeches.

[ no. why. ]

Why leeches specifically...?

There are just a lot of them around.

[ I GUESS? ]

[scrunches her nose in disgust.]

Ugh... I wish we could get rid of them for good.

Probably not feasible. Unless someone wants to volunteer to be bait a bunch of times.

[

a look on her face like she's thinking of people she would sacrifice to the leeches.]

Ah, well, that's too bad...

[ ...... yeah. yeah. ]

It would be too easy if we could just fix the stuff that sucks about this place.

We aren't allowed to have nice things, I guess.

I can't even imagine this place but nicer.

It would probably blink out of existence just by the contradiction.

Which would be for the better if we weren't stuck here.