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[cahooted]

This is Flynn. Hi!

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[zunesareawesome]

I'm going to play that clip over and over again.

[Peter sighs, a wan giggle escaping him. He swallows, and nods. He still...felt an urge to not believe Flynn, but it was unlikely Ego would hire someone that pratfalled that wonderfully.]

Yeah. Better.

[A giant claw-mark pushes at the walls like they're rubber.]

I don't know for how long. They haven't gone away completely.

[cahooted]

That's good. [Flynn smiles, giving the screen an encouraging thumbs-up.] Don't worry, we'll get you through this. I'm going to stay with you for as long as it takes, okay?

[He brings the tablet closer to his face for a more serious, intensive look.]

All day if I have to.

[The moment lingers between them.

Then, suddenly, processing.]

Hey, what do you mean, you're going to play-- you recorded that?

[zunesareawesome]

Thanks, Flynn.

[He sounds utterly and completely thankful. If Flynn could help ground him, maybe the hallucinations wouldn't get as bad again. He hoped. Because if he really started to believe in them for good, he'd end up outside...and without help, that would be it.

The walls bubbled and melted a little, space swirling behind the holes. He swallowed, feeing like Flynn was distracting him on purpose. So that something else would get him.

No, that wasn't...he wouldn't do that.]

What? How could I not? That was fantastic! You should be proud of yourself.

[cahooted]

For what? [Utterly baffled. That is not how embarrassing situations work??]

Hey, you're... you're not going to show that to anyone, are you?

[zunesareawesome]

It could take an actor years of acting school and they couldn't have perfected that. It was awesome! [Own it, man!]

Uh.

[A pause. He looks off in the distance, either distracted by another vision, or maybe he was just trying to change the subject.]

Hey, I'm seein' stars again. Cool.

[cahooted]

I fell on my butt. [You can't possibly be entertained that easily.

But whatever his intent, Peter's strategy works because Flynn forgets all about the incriminating video, concern flaring up again.]

Don't look at the stars! They're not real.

[zunesareawesome]

I know, it was great. [Yes. Yes he can.]

What?

[He focuses back on the screen, but it's apparent that whatever his intent, he really was seeing stars, at least. He keeps glancing to the side.]

Reminds me of Eternity. Maybe it is. Maybe I couldn't escape it...

[cahooted]

[Great. Will you ever let him live that down?]

Well, my backside doesn't feel very eternal.

[Rubbing his butt, Flynn commences walking, trying to keep Peter's attention fixed to the screen.]

You want to tell me about it?

[zunesareawesome]

[Pffft--the incongruity lets a laugh escape him.]

I meant the stars, not your butt.

Eternity? What's there to tell? It's...everything. [He rubs his face.] Mind-blowing.

[cahooted]

Well, stars aren't really eternal either, you know, technically the length of their life depends on how fast they use up their nuclear fuel. While our sun may have five billion years left, others burn considerably brighter will exhaust their available hydrogen within a few million...

[zunesareawesome]

[Yeah, that's totally working. He wasn't even paying attention to the visions anymore.]

Seriously, dude? That's what you're gonna take away from this? I mean, if we're gonna be that nit-picky about it, maybe I'm only seeing a slice of the universe's timeline. Or something.

[cahooted]

Ah, 'timeline' might not be the best term here, we really should take relativity and dilation into account. I mean, space-time especially is not constant. The faster we go the more time slows down.

[He tilts his head.]

Maybe you were just moving really, really fast?

[zunesareawesome]

[Peter just stares.]

...who the what now? Time slows down the faster you go?

[cahooted]

Last I checked.

I mean, I've never been that big on the real hard sciences but I've read my Einstein?