[ Krouse hesitates before he returns the introduction. ]
Krouse.
[ There's something about saying his name that feels like admitting to something he shouldn't, but if he walks around calling himself Trickster, there's going to be follow up questions with answers he'll have to lie about.
It doesn't really matter. It hasn't in a long time. He's never going home, and the connection between one identity and the other only meant anything when that was still a possibility. ]
And I don't think I was good at it. My uncle just had a table in his basement.
[ There are memories there, if he wants to think about them. He doesn't. ]
Do you think that's it?
[ At the end of the hallway they've reached, there's a sign reading RECREATION ROOM over a pair of double doors. It's a good enough reason to pivot away from personal trivia. ]
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Krouse.
[ There's something about saying his name that feels like admitting to something he shouldn't, but if he walks around calling himself Trickster, there's going to be follow up questions with answers he'll have to lie about.
It doesn't really matter. It hasn't in a long time. He's never going home, and the connection between one identity and the other only meant anything when that was still a possibility. ]
And I don't think I was good at it. My uncle just had a table in his basement.
[ There are memories there, if he wants to think about them. He doesn't. ]
Do you think that's it?
[ At the end of the hallway they've reached, there's a sign reading RECREATION ROOM over a pair of double doors. It's a good enough reason to pivot away from personal trivia. ]