#he should have reached out when they both had blood

this morning i was thinking about sapodilla and that conversation at the start of the Oratorio (where art says ‘i abandoned my… friend… for this’ made me go back and relisten with an ear for chine/duvall and my brain has been cursed ever since)..and what that would have looked like from duvall’s perspective?

imagine: duvall is in his interview getting nervous, and then it’s lights out. everyone gathers together, (duvall has been completely dissolved), they make plans (duvall is in the process of being rebuilt). he comes to, the party is split and they came here mostly for his painting, so of course he’s not in the group to rescue chine, but he’d been so looking forward to finally having some time together when he found out the whole party was going to sapodilla… 

he’d been too tired in blackwick to seek them out, and then the egg was stolen, and so much (so much) has happened.. and chine might be dead in a dungeon while he looks for a painting, but the cards have been dealt, and anyway, maybe he’s dead too (only a few hours ago he was nothing - when the bees built him did they bring him back? if you’re not the same person you were when you did the thing, is your memory of it real?)