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Not the last one.

[The mushrooms actually seemed to build a decent society for themselves.

He tosses the patch's wrapper and the cleansing wipe in the trash before going back to his bag to rummage around until he finds a small bottle of ibuprofen.]

[morethan084]

No, I just mean—

[Daisy exhales slowly after inhaling too sharply.]

I’ve been to a lot of places, even before coming here. They either want what they don’t have, or they try to control it.

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Which now that I say it out loud, that could be said for a lot of things.

[She’s so tired of this, of being treated like this. Of others with powers going through the same thing, and she can’t do anything to help the people here who are already sick.]

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People either envy what they don’t have or fear it.

[He offers her the bottle of pills.]

Or both.

[More often it’s probably both.]

[morethan084]

[Daisy smiles tiredly in thanks, taking the pill bottle from him to open it and take out two. Dry swallowing them she hands him it back,]

Let’s go with both.

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[He hums in agreement and takes the pills back. After he tucks them back into his bag, he has one last thing to offer her.

A lollipop.

He holds it out to her, looking faintly amused.]

[morethan084]

[Daisy does a double take when she spots the lollipop, and for the first time since everything went to shit she smiles genuinely.]

Thanks. Do you always have these on you?

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It's sort of a trial run. Following some advice.

[Advice about adults appreciating candy as much as kids. So far it seems to be true.]

[morethan084]

And do you normally give these out to adults? Or is this you're way of making a dig at me?

[Either way, she's not offended. Pulling the wrapper off she pops it in her mouth. It's been a long time she's had a lollipop.]

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No. That was the advice. Adults like candy, too.

[Though if she'd taken it as a dig, he might not have tried to convince her otherwise because he's weird like that.]

[morethan084]

[He's right about that, and she nods towards his bag.]

You got any more of those in there?

[Look, she barely ate at the event, and who knows how long they'll be debating on what to do.]