[ Heād make a joke about the customer always being right as the only customer in the store, but itās clear that his heart isnāt in it today.
His domainās gone too. Eddie is already uncharacteristically quiet, but those words plunge him into silence. Itās not like itās news. Heās already gone looking for Dustinās stupidly elaborate domain, and heās come up empty-handed. No Dustin, no domaināitās the same as everyone else who slips from the world, it it just makes sense that heās gone. But Eddie canāt admit it out loud, not yet. Not when the uncertainty of where the people who disappear go shakes his nerves and turns his stomach to knots.
He would have cared either way. He has an undeniable soft spot for Dustin and absolutely plays favorites, but that weird emergent reality sneaks its way in again, and itās hard not to be actually distraught knowing that for eight centuries, that was his kid. The three of them were a family.
Suddenly, he grows painfully aware of his surroundings. Then he can hear the soft clinking of Neroās rings around Steveās neck and feels the shift in temperature as he pulls himself onto the counter as well. For half a second, he considers leaning back, just languishing and making it Steveās problem, but he stops himself. Itās already weird. Donāt make it weirder.
His ears tune in on the clacking of keys, and itās enough for him to shift his gaze toward the closed door to the back room, but he says nothing, because he thinks he already knows whatās back thereānothing. Just the shadow of a friend and a coworker. Sometimes, Eddieās subconscious does the same thing and tries to pull little pieces of Wayne into his own domaināthe familiar creak of the floor beneath heavy work boots, or the sound of an old pickup backfiring. It just makes him sad, though, so he does his best not to tune in on it when heās there.
Go, theyāre both so pitiful. ]
Doesnāt mean anything.
[ He says it softly, like if he says it too loudly, heāll realize just how stupid and desperate it sounds. He canāt will Dustin back by refusing to admit heās gone. ]
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[ Heād make a joke about the customer always being right as the only customer in the store, but itās clear that his heart isnāt in it today.
His domainās gone too. Eddie is already uncharacteristically quiet, but those words plunge him into silence. Itās not like itās news. Heās already gone looking for Dustinās stupidly elaborate domain, and heās come up empty-handed. No Dustin, no domaināitās the same as everyone else who slips from the world, it it just makes sense that heās gone. But Eddie canāt admit it out loud, not yet. Not when the uncertainty of where the people who disappear go shakes his nerves and turns his stomach to knots.
He would have cared either way. He has an undeniable soft spot for Dustin and absolutely plays favorites, but that weird emergent reality sneaks its way in again, and itās hard not to be actually distraught knowing that for eight centuries, that was his kid. The three of them were a family.
Suddenly, he grows painfully aware of his surroundings. Then he can hear the soft clinking of Neroās rings around Steveās neck and feels the shift in temperature as he pulls himself onto the counter as well. For half a second, he considers leaning back, just languishing and making it Steveās problem, but he stops himself. Itās already weird. Donāt make it weirder.
His ears tune in on the clacking of keys, and itās enough for him to shift his gaze toward the closed door to the back room, but he says nothing, because he thinks he already knows whatās back thereānothing. Just the shadow of a friend and a coworker. Sometimes, Eddieās subconscious does the same thing and tries to pull little pieces of Wayne into his own domaināthe familiar creak of the floor beneath heavy work boots, or the sound of an old pickup backfiring. It just makes him sad, though, so he does his best not to tune in on it when heās there.
Go, theyāre both so pitiful. ]
Doesnāt mean anything.
[ He says it softly, like if he says it too loudly, heāll realize just how stupid and desperate it sounds. He canāt will Dustin back by refusing to admit heās gone. ]
Canāt stand this place sometimes.