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Hi! This is Ashley. I, um, can't come to the phone- gear right now? Leave me a message and I'll get back to you ASAP, okay? Bye!

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You don't have to tell me about that.
I'm not really religious anyway
The wording just puzzled me
Let's not talk about reproduction either, that's probably awkward.
Your custodians, what about them? You just live in a house (hive?) with them?

[Oh thank god.]

WE DO, YES.
WE CALL THEM HIVES, BUT THEY'RE SIMILAR IN STRUCTURE TO YOUR HUMAN HOUSES.
ONCE WE HAVE A LUSUS, WE TRAVEL WITH THEM TO THE SURFACE AND HAVE OUR HIVES BUILT ACCORDING TO WHATEVER SPECIFICATIONS WE WANT.

Alright.
The Lusus (capitals? no?) is your caretaker.
The hive is your house.
You're born underground?
And your Lusus builds your hive for you.
Is that correct?

NO CAPITAL LETTERS. THE FULL NAME IS LUSUS NATURAE.
WE'RE *HATCHED* UNDERGROUND IN THE BROODING CAVERNS. THE MOTHER GRUB LAYS THE EGGS WE HATCH FROM.
THE CARPENTER DROIDS BUILD OUR HIVES FOR US.
FUN BONUS FACTS! WHEN WE FIRST HATCH, WE'RE CALLED WIGGLERS AND WE HAVE SIX LIMBS. AFTER WE PUPATE, WE HAVE FOUR.
DO YOU WANT MORE "MORBID AND CRUEL" DETAILS OR SHOULD I LEAVE IT AT THAT.

Sorry.
I shouldn't say it like that.
I don't think I can handle any of those right now, though.
Sorry again.

I didn't realize you come from eggs. Or that your life cycle sounds like that of an insect.
What are the carpenter droids? You haven't mentioned them before. Robot bodyguards?

I'VE HEARD WORSE FROM DAVE.
AND HONESTLY? YOU'RE NOT WRONG. THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT WAS.

THE CARPENTER DROIDS WERE IN CHARGE OF CONSTRUCTION AND NOT MUCH ELSE. OUR BODYGUARDS WERE OUR LUSII. WE WERE ON OUR OWN BESIDES THAT.

I should have figured that much from the name? But if they were around when you were that small
I'm still thinking in human terms. Sorry.
Did you go up to the surface when you were still a wriggler, or do you wait until you pupate first?

WE HATCH, FIND A STALACTITE, AND SPIN OUR COCOONS.
AFTER WE PUPATE, THINGS OF A HUMAN "MORBID AND CRUEL" NATURE HAPPEN.
WE ARE THEN CHOSEN BY LUSII, AND TOGETHER WE GO TO THE SURFACE AND BUILD A HIVE, ASSISTED BY CARPENTER DROIDS.
ONCE THE HIVE IS DONE, WE'RE LEFT WITH OUR LUSII TO FEND FOR OURSELVES.

WAS THAT CLEARER OR DO YOU NEED A FUCKING FLOWCHART?

Okay, it's clear, sheesh.
It's just so different. Which I'm sure you hear all the time from Dave and his friends.

Look at the very least consider this preemptive exposition for your eventual caliginous romance story.

MOSTLY FROM JOHN. I THINK DAVE TUNED ALL THAT SHIT OUT, OR MAYBE HE JUST LEARNED IT FROM TEREZI FIRST AND WAS THUS FREE TO DEVOTE HIS FULL ATTENTION TO GIVING ME SHIT OVER IT WHENEVER I TRIED EXPLAINING IT TO HIM AGAIN.

[Except when it came to quadrants, obviously. That was open season no matter what Dave might have heard about it elsewhere.

Ugh, wow, time to change the subject again.]

ANYWAY, I THINK THAT WAS EVERYTHING, NOT INCLUDING THE PARTS WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT.
MAYBE I SHOULD KEEP GOING IF IT'LL MEAN LESS CONFUSION WHEN YOU READ THE STORY? OR WE CAN PICK THIS UP LATER IF YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH FOR NOW.

Maybe.
I think I need to think for a little while, but I'd like to know more later.

In specific instances of violence
please avoid monsters too
ones that hunt

[........]

YEAH, I UNDERSTAND. FEEL FREE TO HIT ME UP LATER
AND I WAS PLANNING ON SETTING IT IN SPACE, SO THAT SHOULD BE EASY.

[Mostly, anyway, but like hell is he going to say otherwise.]

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