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( phone )

It's Terezi and my auricular sponge clots are still frothing teal from all of those alarms, and I guess everyone is still in a big panic about it but I just wanted to let everyone know that Dave Strider- hard cherry candy red Dave, not delicious orange creamsicle Dave- is gone. Back to... to our universe, I guess, and I mean, I just-...

[Terezi actually sounds pretty miserable about it. ]

I bet he will be back soon. I mean, that's just like a coolkid, to get himself panscrubbed ironically. He will be back in a few days, won't he, I just know it, he's going to swagger on in and be like 'Hey, TZ, hey, everything's totally cool and I was just seeing what it was like to be a drone for a while.' Yeah, that's what's going to happen. Blargh. I think I am going to give him a good hard drubbing the moment he snaps out of it. He's leaving me hanging and-

[Her voice shrinks.] ...Anyway, um. That's all.

Oh, except, by the way, can I ask if there are any people out there who were born between the human calendar dates of... September 24th to October 23rd? [She sounds a little bit hopeful, curious.] Let me know!

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I discovered this thing! [She seems to perk up a little bit, although she still sounds a bit tired. There's some rustling on her end of the line.] It's called 'the zodiac'! Humans have this wheel of 12 signs based on the stars in the sky and the way they're laid out and... There's a machine that dispenses something called a 'horoscope'. That's how I figured it out. I don't know how we didn't ever learn about this sooner!

[She gives a huff.] I'm going too fast, but it's pretty exciting! They're our signs, if you haven't figured that out yet. All 12- they're ours. And they're all based on real star patterns. We really did have an influence on this universe. Apparently all humans born on this planet fall under one of our signs. Amazing, isn't it!

The machine's at the comic shop. But I found a book on the zodiac, too! Here, for example, I'm going to read about my sign. It's called 'Libra'. [She pauses for a moment to lick the paper.] 'Diplomatic and urbane, romantic and charming'- hahaha- 'Easygoing and sociable, idealistic and peaceable'... They're all qualities that are supposed to represent our signs, I think! Naturally I am incredibly sociable and romantic and diplomatic and peaceable so this is all one hundred percent absolutely undeniably true.

But the coolest part is, [she takes a breath-] the coolest part is that my sign represents the scales. Equality and justice. And the rest of the signs, are, um, well, you'll see! I think it's all kind of amazing. You should go to the comic shop if you want to see! It's just... I guess even here, it's kind of encouraging to know that we had an impact on things. Somehow.

( action; the comic shop )

[Terezi, dressed in tribute to a certain coolkid, is standing before a rusty machine mounted to the wall. It has a number of different options on it, and after inserting $0.05, it dispenses small tubes of paper containing horoscope information. Terezi is basically choking the thing with nickels and stuffing a bunch in her pockets. She has a lot of Libras and Cancers. Once she amasses enough, she sits down on the curb of the sidewalk and begins sketching on the ground in chalk.]

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[Feferi just leans down and scoops Terezi up in a hug.] I am really sorry about your coolkid. Want some fork-pokings to go with the cane-drubbings?

[But she lets go a moment later, looking at the chalk drawings on the sidewalk. She lightly touches the one on her shirt, then looks at the one on the ground.]

It's kind of a miracle...

[And now she's jamming the machine even further, wanting Pisces and Aquarius and Gemini.]

[ohhhh Feferi ;u; she hugs her back gratefully, and then adjusts her sunglasses and tries to look extra cool about the whole thing like Dave would want her to.]

Fork-pokings would be just about perfect. And hehehe, open them up and read them! They all say really interesting things.

Just say the word and you will have all the fork-pokings. All of them.

[And she sits down, opening her own first.]

...hey, mine is like my name! Pisces, Peixes, they sound almost alike! That is pretty awesome. Let's see what this says.

[Scan, scan, scan...]

Hm. It says I'm supposed to be imaginative and sensitive, compassionate and kind, selfless and unworldly, and intuitive and sympathetic, but also escapist and idealistic, secretive and vague, and...weak-willed and easily led...huh.

Oh, they do, don't they! [she thinks that over...] Well, they might not all fit. Mine said I was indecisive and flirtatious and self-indulgent. [Terezi is in total denial because all of those are true.]

You are all of those good things though! Like selfless. And compassionate.

I try. That's really all I can do.

[Not even going to mention the fact that the flirtatiousness and self-indulgence are absolutely true. Just going to open up the Aquarius one next.]

...I think Eridan got all the negative ones. Yes, the intellectual, definitely original and inventive, maybe a little too loyal, but then there's the intractable and contrary, perverse and unpredictable...let's just check Sollux. Yeah.

Gemini, Gemini...Adaptable and versatile, communicative and witty, intellectual and eloquent, youthful and lively, nervous and tense, superficial and inconsistent, cunning and inquisitive...I think he hits exactly half of these.

[tries not to snort at 'perverse'.]

...Ehehe. Half. How completely unsurprising.

[It's okay if Terezi snorts. Feferi is close to a gigglefit.]

I know, right? Figures.

Oh, oh, what does everyone else's say?

Vriska's fits her totally! It says she's forceful and compulsive.