[Maybe sewers are different where she comes from. Him? He's good. He's traversed enough cramped spaces, tunneled pipes, and underground networks to last him a lifetime, thanks.]
You have to go down the ladder and then you can hear it.
[Stumbling on that place had been a stroke of good luck and kitty fortune. It's not like she knew there was water there, initially. The sewers are a weird, dangerous and shockingly safe place.]
[She won't push him on it, her assumption being that he's afraid to go down there. That's understandable. If she's unable to get confirmation that a kitty horde lives in these imaginary sewers, should they show up, she wouldn't take the plunge either.]
That's okay. You can stay there too. The cats will find you when they feel safe.
[That's fine. She accepts that answer with a happy little hum on her end because he said okay. She'll ignore the part where he implies there are no cats, just like she has this whole time.]
Do you want to count the stars with me? Until your eyes get tired.
[That's kinda making it sound like everyone is dead. While Tim isn't opposed to that in regards to himself, he'd prefer that everyone else here be...not that.]
And make constellations with them. You can do that too.
[And she's waiting. There's no video to show that she's eagerly looking up at the sky, making flowers and cats with her fingers, but it's happening. Come on, Tim. Create something!!!]
[He doesn't have that kind of imagination, he reasons to himself, but the longer he looks at the star-spattered sky, the easier it becomes to visualize the blots of starlight as notes on a staff.]
[Even without the magical gift of stone skype, he can probably figure out the way her face looks by the excitable sound she makes and the happy pitch in her voice.]
Good job, good job! I can-
[She makes a concentrated effort to glance up at the sky, hoping to find the note, except she gets distracted by starcat number 2000. Oh well. That's Tim's special constellation anyway-a treasure in the sky for him.]
[He's not an astronomer. He has no idea what constellations one should be looking for. Even the common threads are missing - Big Dipper, Little Dipper, what have you. But they are, technically, somewhere else entirely. It'd make sense that the stars would reflect that.]
I'll write it down. So you can see it sometime.
[He has a notebook and pen. Brian's.]
[Some of the pages are still creased with his writing.]
[It's a simple offer, but one she takes to heart because it means he has to come back. He'll return from Umui soon and take up his perch at Denny once more. They can look at the stars in his book, talk about music, she can try to get him to smile and-
Well, it makes her happy.]
Okay, I want to see it. I'll find you when you get home.
[And with that, she points a finger back up to the sky and starts to slowly count the stars one, two, three, four- until she's too tired to keep her eyes open.]
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[Maybe sewers are different where she comes from. Him? He's good. He's traversed enough cramped spaces, tunneled pipes, and underground networks to last him a lifetime, thanks.]
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[Stumbling on that place had been a stroke of good luck and kitty fortune. It's not like she knew there was water there, initially. The sewers are a weird, dangerous and shockingly safe place.]
The cats will be there to help.
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[Traveling underground isn't his story, so much. It has been before, maybe, but not for some time.]
[Makes him think of abandoned schools. Of burned-out shells of empty hospitals. Of rasping breath and handprints in red, and knives in the throat.]
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That's okay. You can stay there too. The cats will find you when they feel safe.
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[Stop shitting on the small child's dreams, Tim :/ ]
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Do you want to count the stars with me? Until your eyes get tired.
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[It sounds almost teasing. Almost. But since no one can see his face at the moment, there's no one to say one way or the other.]
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I have to say good night to Hanako-chan and Kumo-chan and the Tim in the sky. Then I'll sleep too.
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[Does he know those people? Are those people he knows???]
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[These good, good sky cats and also-]
And you. You're there too.
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[To his knowledge, he isn't a constellation. Get with the times, kid.]
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Yes, those things-the pretty pictures in the sky.
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[Is that a compliment??????]
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[Vague humanesque shapes all across the sky and she got to name them-incredible. It's always a good time to be a freeloading gremlin with no bedtime.]
I think everyone's a 'constellation'-I saw a lot of people.
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[That's kinda making it sound like everyone is dead. While Tim isn't opposed to that in regards to himself, he'd prefer that everyone else here be...not that.]
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When I look up there, I can see everyone's smiling face. I can hold my finger up and-
[She does it now, trying to trace the outline of a particular star elf.]
Put those stars together. One, two, three! That one's Taako.
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[He was never really a child; he never learned the sorts of things children do normally. That's not much of an excuse.]
I, uh...see. [He kind of does now, at least.] I guess it's a good way to pass the time.
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[It's so easy. Be a child, Tim. Is there anything else to do on a deserted plague island?? No, there's not.]
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[There are sheep here now, evidently, albeit of the...floral variety. Muffet's been keeping them, last he checked.]
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[And she's waiting. There's no video to show that she's eagerly looking up at the sky, making flowers and cats with her fingers, but it's happening. Come on, Tim. Create something!!!]
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[He doesn't have that kind of imagination, he reasons to himself, but the longer he looks at the star-spattered sky, the easier it becomes to visualize the blots of starlight as notes on a staff.]
Mm. Like a song on a staff.
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Good job, good job! I can-
[She makes a concentrated effort to glance up at the sky, hoping to find the note, except she gets distracted by starcat number 2000. Oh well. That's Tim's special constellation anyway-a treasure in the sky for him.]
I'll look for it too.
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I'll write it down. So you can see it sometime.
[He has a notebook and pen. Brian's.]
[Some of the pages are still creased with his writing.]
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Well, it makes her happy.]
Okay, I want to see it. I'll find you when you get home.
[And with that, she points a finger back up to the sky and starts to slowly count the stars one, two, three, four- until she's too tired to keep her eyes open.]
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[Tim won't be sleeping for a little while yet. But at least someone's getting some rest.]