[Of course she doesn't. He may act like a fool, but Taako's never been an idiot. She gave him an out for their soul-wrenching conversation so they could pretend to be people who didn't have a history for once. In a certain respect, it's the kindest thing they could have done, to make him want to smile when he sees her again. But he's tired of forgive and he refuses to forget anything ever again. He won't be told how to feel. No one can force him to do this now.

But this is an entertaining story, one meant to be a one-off he would tell anyone, a hook into something out of context to cause a double take. It doesn't matter that it's her. Could be anyone. It doesn't need to matter.]

So all the liches here get off on a different emotion, right? One of 'em is tranquility, which like, good, someone needs to be the fake god of calm or whatever. He and Confusion did a thing for a bit where we all thought we were somewhere else n' had memories of livin' there our whole lives. So like, Lup and I were famous, natch, we had a restraunt and our own show and we were about to do a huge tour. Soooo we had posters. And when it came out it was like, all fake, I told him he owed me all my merch, that was Taako branded material and I did not extend him my copyright. Aaaaand he coughed it up.

[If Lucretia has been to the house while Taako was out, it's centered on the back of their bedroom door, a little worn from the move from their first apartment but otherwise immaculate.]

That was like, right after Lup arrived. Weird to think about uh, time or whatever.