Inbox - Penance

[red_song]

...
Just say something. I might listen.

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[tobetheone]

No, this one's real. He's been to our home. But he's shy, so he only comes while we're all having a rest cycle.

[red_song]

You allow a strange human to break into your home while you're powered down? Crazy.

[tobetheone]

He isn't strange! He's Santa Claus. Every house lets him in.

[red_song]

That sounds like breaking and entering.

[tobetheone]

He's a good man who visits the homes of good people. You just have to believe in him.

[red_song]

There is no such thing as a good man.

[tobetheone]

It's okay to believe in things you haven't seen with your own eyes.

[red_song]

[Proto just scoffs at that. He's good at scoffing.]

[tobetheone]

I bet he'll find a way to get to us down here even. I'm going to make sure my door's unlocked just in case.

[red_song]

You deserve wahtever humans are going to do to you in your sleep, Rock.

[He's as dense as his namesake.]

[tobetheone]

The humans in my room are nice. If something happens, I'll protect them.

[red_song]

The humans in mine are frustrating.

[Mega, they won't protect you.]

[tobetheone]

You don't like them? What's wrong with them?

[red_song]

[Well, they're humans. And he doesn't interact with them much because of that.]

Does the why matter?

[tobetheone]

Of course it matters. Are they hostile to you? You should say something if they've treated you badly.

[red_song]

[Like he would say something ot Mega.]

It isn't your concern, Rock.

[tobetheone]

You are my concern, Blues.

[red_song]

That's bullshit, Rock.

[tobetheone]

You don't think I can protect you?

[red_song]

No.

[tobetheone]

Then give me the chance to prove it.

[red_song]

How?

[tobetheone]

By trusting me? Talking to me? Blues, you're the only brother I have left. I want to know more about your life.

[red_song]

[Whose fault was it that he was the only brother left? And Proto had never had a brother.]

I didn't have one, Rock. Father saw to that.

[tobetheone]

[That is a very complicated question that he would prefer not to answer.]

You have one now. And we can have one together.