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[striketwice]

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[vecna]

[What’s better than a boyfriend? A monster boyfriend, of course.]

Well, I’m not the only one this prison has changed, after all.

[Deal with fun!!]

But besides that… do you ever do any sightseeing when you travel for a job? Or is it all business, then headed straight home?

[striketwice]

[ No, Henry's not the only person who's changed. They both have tarot cards in their pockets to attest to that much.

Alec shrugs. ]

I don't usually play tourist, no. Why? Hoping for some globetrotting?

[vecna]

I don’t know. Maybe.

[Henry nearly shrugs.]

I’ve never seen much of the world. I’m assuming yours is similar to mine, at least geographically.

[striketwice]

At the very least, you're seeing Chicago and Vegas. The rest can happen after that.

[ Though after this place, even Alec is starting to think he's in need of a fucking vacation. ]

[vecna]

Considering I’ve never been to either, barring your memories, then how can I complain?

[Henry Creel isn’t ready for modern day Vegas.]

[striketwice]

You might still find a way to complain. 1986 to 2022 is quite the leap.

[vecna]

[An even bigger leap if you consider that Henry hasn't really been in human society since 1959.

But surely it's fine.]

And yet I still don't think it'll be more of a culture shock than this place. I'll do what I can to fit in.

[striketwice]

[ UNSURE. ]

I guess we'll just have to see. Is there anywhere in particular you'd want to go?

[vecna]

[That’s an interesting question — or maybe more accurately, it’s a difficult question for him to answer. Henry Creel, who was so disillusioned by humanity itself that he sought to remake the world, never had any particular desire to see every corner of the earth. No fondness for the places he did visit; and no expectation that things would be different anywhere else.

But things have changed. More importantly, the company would differ. And maybe new experiences will hold more worth with Alec at his side.]

…have you ever been to Australia?

[can Alec guess why this is the first place he mentions—]

[striketwice]

[ He lifts his head to give Henry the flattest stare. ]

Are you just saying that because you want to see spiders as big as your face?

[vecna]

[Uh, yeah? Henry's probably the equivalent of the guy you see online with a big spider on his face.]

Not only those. There's a funnel-web spider native to Australia that can knock a man unconscious with a single bite.

[ISN'T THAT NEAT]

[striketwice]

Oh my god.

[ HENRY ]

I'll take you to a zoo or something, okay?

[vecna]

[WHAT THIS IS TOTALLY NORMAL]

You’re the one who asked me where I’d want to go.

[But he’d settle for a zoo with a decent insectarium, because he is, at his core, a nerd.]

[striketwice]

[ BRUH ]

Not in the context of looking for highly venomous spiders in the wild, I didn't.

[vecna]

Then you should have been more specific.

[striketwice]

Fuck you, Henry.

[ That sure sounds awfully fond. ]

[vecna]

[His knowing, amused smile shows no sign of offense in return. This is just a normal part of their exchange at this point.]

How about we start simple? You just show me around your hometown to start.

[striketwice]

[ Alec has probably told Henry to fuck off in some form or other just about as many times as Henry's called Alec insufferable. It's a balance. ]

Yeah, I guess I can show you the sights.

[vecna]

[True romance.]

I doubt I’ll be disappointed. Anything’s more interesting than Hawkins.

[striketwice]

[ One eyebrow goes up. ]

And Hawkins would be... where, exactly?

[vecna]

[Henry realizes he’s never directly spoken about Hawkins, has he?]

A small town in Indiana, just barely a speck of dust on a map. I’d say it was last place I resided before I was taken away, but the lab was located there, too.

[striketwice]

Small town Indiana.

[ He turns that revelation over in his head. ]

I guess if I was gonna build an evil laboratory for evil science, bumfuck nowhere is a good place to do it.

[vecna]

[He nods in agreement.]

No one’s going to suspect the banal little town with hardly anything to do in it. Everyone was excited when a shopping mall opened there in ‘85.

[Don’t ask him how he knows this.]

[striketwice]

[ He presumes from the teenagers he was terrorizing, tbh. ]

Big city life's gonna be an adjustment, too.

[vecna]

[More like the people he turned into goo to make a flesh monster spider to terrorize the inside of that mall, but yes. Also the kids.]

In what way? You don’t think I can handle it?