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[cowardley]

Your laundry has been done for, like, an hour, Sam. [ pa texting is a go. sorry, sam! ps: ash doesn't even have any clothes to wash. ]

cries

[baths]

[ sam's not quite made it to hope's temple yet, and so she types out a reply before even really thinking about it. ]

ok? i'm not there to do anything about it, ashley.

[cowardley]

Yeah? Well, it's kind of rude just to leave it. You're not the only person in the house.

[ she's gonna put your clothes outside, just watch ]

[baths]

[ ASH NO ]

i didn't know anyone else needed to do laundry today.

[ which is true, but also she got frustrated and left pretty quickly, soooo. ]

just set it aside if it's in the way. not that hard.

[cowardley]

[ nope they're going outside. just like right outside. in a pile. a dirty, dirty pile! ]

Well, you're not the only person in the house, so maybe you shoulder consider that next time.

[baths]

[ it will be a lovely gift to come home to. just a heap of her clothes outside the door. ]

you're making that pretty damn clear. you can either move it or leave it, i don't really care. i'll take care of it when i get back. good enough for you?

[cowardley]

[ surprise sam!! happy your life totally sucks day! ]

Fine. You'd probably take forever to do it even if you were here, anyway.

[baths]

[ those days sure are racking up since that night on the mountain and waking up here! this is definitely one of the worst though. pure anger seeps into everything she thinks and feels, resulting in a weird cocktail of agitation and paranoia (especially towards her friends.) ]

is there something else you're trying to say here?

[text]

[thechoiceisyours]

Probably a weird question, but are you at the house, Sam?

[Please say yes.]

[baths]

Oh my god Chris

No, I woke up somewhere else and I'm stuck. What about you? Are you ok?

[thechoiceisyours]

[Oh, man, that's not the answer he wanted to hear.]

I'm okay Sam, just same deal as you here.

Haven't heard back from Ash or Josh yet but I messaged them too.

[baths]

[ crap. crap crap crap. ]

Jesus, you don't think they're buried too do you?

[thechoiceisyours]

I don't know. I really hope not. Maybe they're just still asleep?

[It's doubtful that everyone woke up at the same time, after all; hopefully that's the explanation for the delay, especially since it wasn't that long ago that he sent the texts out anyway. He really doesn't think Ashley or Josh would take the being buried thing all that well.]

[baths]

Yeah, yeah maybe they haven't looked at their phones

[ it's a small comfort, at least. ]

I can't get this damn lid to budge, have you had any luck?

[thechoiceisyours]

I haven't tried; if we're underground I don't think it's possible.

[And it's a waste of air to do more than necessary.]

We may be stuck waiting for someone to find us rather than getting out ourselves.

[baths]

They make it look so easy in the movies

[ the words "stuck waiting" leave a bad, familiar taste in her mouth, but she knows chris is right. how is this their lives now? it's like everything that happened a year and however many months ago has completely snowballed. ]

On a scale of one to wendigo, how would you rate this?

text (backdated to 1/17)

[pighead]

hey sam. doing ok?

[baths]

Hanging in there

[ not that she'd say otherwise! gosh sam. ]

I'm just glad to hear from you. How are you and Ash?

[pighead]

oh you know. she's not my biggest fan but we're doing ok. we're gonna come find you and chris.

this is the latest

[baths]

Yeah, she's been through a lot. Thank you though. I know things are weird, even when half of us aren't buried alive.

God, I still can't believe this

nooo you're fine!

[pighead]

hey I can't blame her. or any of you really.

this is pretty fucked up, but I gotta say, it'd make a pretty good movie.

(1/2) djgfd i am just destined to bombard you with late tags

[baths]

Josh, you don't have to do that. There's still a lot to talk about but really we just want you to be ok

[ okay as in... not dead or missing, mostly. ]

[baths]

So uh, say you were directing this movie. How would you want it to end?

to be fair I'm also slow as hell usually

[pighead]

[He'll ignore the first part because he doesn't know how to respond to that. The rest is easy.]

the brave digging heroes find their friends in the nick of time. the villains die gorily, victory all around. keg party for everyone.

we are in good company then

[baths]

[ the fact that he doesn't address it is fine, and frankly, what she expects. what's happened to them all is horrible and complicated... it'll take baby steps to get to any sort of resolution, sam thinks. ]

Alright, I'm liking the sound of this

Wouldn't argue with "way before the nick of time" either, just so that's out there