[45] - [Voice]

[sharpememory]

Deep and meaningful question for the week, barge. If you could go home, but no one you loved was there, would you do it?

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[Private]

[godsays]

[ Considering all the consequences that came from that event? ]

...yes. I'm sure.

[Private]

[sharpememory]

[Barron: half trolling, half needing to backread what he's missed while he was in a coma.]

Right, sure. Look, man. I'm not sure what went down between you and Cassel, but it's time to stop. The moment when you start trying to pick a fight with his brother is the moment when you've gone too far.

[Private]

[godsays]

We talked a lot about you.

And I didn't come here to pick a fight.

[ Except he did.

Zane is self-aware enough to realize this, on some level. That he is projecting the image of himself on Barron, and the way he used his own siblings on Cassel. He wants to be better. He blames himself. And he knows that ruthless edge is in him right under the surface.

That's why he wants to fight. It's more about him than it is about Cassel. ]

[Private]

[sharpememory]

And you believe what Cassel said?

Dude, you came here and tried to go for the jugular.

[Private]

[godsays]

I know what he sounds like when he lies.

And if what I said hurt, then maybe you should try being his brother once in a while. Like... pizza nights.

[ The story that Cassel had told him, about writing in 'pizza nights' into Barron's notebook. ]

[Private]

[sharpememory]

But pizza nights are kind of terrible. I mean, that's not something that anyone should really aspire to.

[Private]

[godsays]

And if Cassel wanted something like that, it must have been because what you did give him was even more pathetic.

[Private]

[sharpememory]

Okay, man. I'm done with this conversation.

[Private]

[godsays]

Fine.

But we're not done. Cassel is the most important person to me on this barge.