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Okay. I believe you.

I'm sorry to even ask. It's crazy. But you never know around here. Vampires and werewolves and killers and all kinds of things.

I had to ask myself the same question when I woke up.

Does this place do things like this often? Turn everything into a living nightmare?

I wish I could tell you no.

This is the first time it was like this, though. This place lowers our inhibitions, and makes us hallucinate. Nothing like a shared mass delusion that lasted over a month, though

Great.

[ definitely not great at all. ]

This place turned me into someone I know last month. Made me in their image.

I tried to kill that man before I got here.

[ He was really not expecting an attempted murder confession out of this, because he did believe Harry. But...this is what he gets for thinking he knows what to expect. ]

Oh.

Well...if he was the kind of person to take bites out of people like that, I guess I can understand why you did it.

I worked with the FBI. He fooled all of us.

[ and has still managed to fool many of them. but those are details he can't touch - it makes something angry and real burn in his gut. ]

He didn't stop at one bite. [ and it never started with a bite. ]

I won't hurt Harry again. I promise you that.

I guess he wouldn't, if the FBI were involved.

Good. I've never fought with a cop, but Teo did.

That was supposed to be a joke, not a threat. Sorry.

If you're a friend to him, you're a friend to me.

Thankfully I'm not a cop. If I was, I'd have to interrupt your next shower and question you. They don't really like threats.

[ he's joking, but who knows over text. ]

That's also a joke.

Harry's a good man. It's good he has you.

You're gonna force me to wait until I get home to wash up? We're not being that disruptive, are we?

He is. I feel really lucky.

No, you're not. But you'll have to consult the snails - see how they feel. They're closer.

[ another joke, because yes their bathroom has snails and yes, they seem to collect a few more here and there. he doesn't have a specific interest in them, but their presence is so familiar now, he doesn't think twice. ]

They have the final say.