“Well that was certainly… a lot.” Ruby finally said, bringing the conversation back around to Motif “I suppose it ends the same way they all do, though, doesn’t it? With the end of the world?” At this, Motif’s face went lax and sunk into a much more melancholy expression.

          “It, um, it isn’t, actually.” He said in a slow, low voice, a hefty pendulum swing from where he had started.

          “Oh? There's more?” Ruby asked gently.

           “Y-yeah, there is.” Motif ran his hand through his choppy, greying hair and looked over at Sequel, whose face looked a bit softer than it had before, or perhaps that was only an illusion.

           “Ooh! Yeah!” Agony said excitedly, “Tell her how you got your pet vegetable!” She gestured to Sequel, who was looking sideways at Motif.

            “He is not my pet and he is not a vegetable! You ignorant fuck!” Motif shouted and hurled some ash from the ground at Agony.

            “That got me in the fucking eye!” Agony exclaimed as she tried to brush the excess filth off her already filthy self.

             “Such childishness!” Duenna gasped.

             “Him or me?” Agony coughed.

              “Both of you definitely qualify.” Thesis said in a low voice.

              “Shut up Freud.” Agony mumbled.