[Oh god, Lucas is touching her, Lucas is touching her, her brain shuts down for a good few seconds before she blushes and pulls herself back, stumbling over her own feet a little.]
It's not makeup. I haven't seen Zay—it's just been me, Maya, and Farkle for a few months now. I know it's hard to believe.
[It's not real. It's not real because it can't be real because if it's real then something's been hurting his friends and that's a possibility that isn't allowed to happen ever.]
But I just saw you. All of you. We had lunch together.
[She takes a deep breath, trying to think of what to say—and considering skirting around how awfully people treat the monsters sometimes so that she doesn't overload Lucas anymore than he is being overloaded with all of this information.]
That's just... something weird about Ryslig. Maya doesn't remember anything about 8th grade, and she was here a lot longer than me or Farkle. Um.
No one's found a way home yet, and no one's figured out how to change back.
[She's absolutely positive that Lucas would do his angry Lucas thing if he had to—she knows the situation is probably enough to merit that reaction, because he always hated seeing things happen to his friends.]
It's the Fog God, and—no one knows. She just changes us.
[Riley's assessment is spot on; Lucas is already slightly puffed up with the level of importance that comes from rescuing a friend.]
If nobody's done it yet, then that just means we have to do it. It's the same thing we're always handling at home! When we're all together, we can do anything. Even the impossible.
[The impossible like making sure Riley doesn't have to be green.]
[Lucas, thank you for being predictable. In a way, that's kind of its own relief because it's something so familiar, but at the same time she doesn't want him to get hurt. There is hope, though. He's not wrong, the four of them can do anything—though they haven't quite faced anything like this before. Their lives have been so normal before this place.
She does offer him a small smile, though.]
We've been trying. Farkle's been doing a lot of studying, and I've been making sure that no one gives up hope.
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It's not makeup. I haven't seen Zay—it's just been me, Maya, and Farkle for a few months now. I know it's hard to believe.
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But I just saw you. All of you. We had lunch together.
[Months, she said.]
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That's just... something weird about Ryslig. Maya doesn't remember anything about 8th grade, and she was here a lot longer than me or Farkle. Um.
Why don't we sit down.
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[Because sitting down is the opposite of what should happen in that instance.]
Who's doing this to you? What do we have to do to get them to stop?
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[She's absolutely positive that Lucas would do his angry Lucas thing if he had to—she knows the situation is probably enough to merit that reaction, because he always hated seeing things happen to his friends.]
It's the Fog God, and—no one knows. She just changes us.
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If nobody's done it yet, then that just means we have to do it. It's the same thing we're always handling at home! When we're all together, we can do anything. Even the impossible.
[The impossible like making sure Riley doesn't have to be green.]
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[Lucas, thank you for being predictable. In a way, that's kind of its own relief because it's something so familiar, but at the same time she doesn't want him to get hurt. There is hope, though. He's not wrong, the four of them can do anything—though they haven't quite faced anything like this before. Their lives have been so normal before this place.
She does offer him a small smile, though.]
We've been trying. Farkle's been doing a lot of studying, and I've been making sure that no one gives up hope.