A while. ( He says grimly, after a weighted pause. ) Twenty, thirty minutes maybe? Hard to tell.
( That's the kind of place that makes you lose track of time. It stretches, it disorients. Could've been longer, could've been less, but he's not sure it matters either way. )
Maybe... I don't know, man. Maybe it's the kind of thing you don't get rid of from the outside. Maybe you need to- acknowledge it before you can process it or whatever, you know?
( Maybe that's stupid. God knows he's not an expert in involuntarily manifested metaphors in nebulous dreamscapes, all he has to go off of his gut. A beat passes, then he points over his shoulder with a thumb and tacks on: )
And if that don't work, I'm just sayin', I got some power tools. I know my way around a welder. We can strip that bitch out by hand, one bolt at a time.
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( That's the kind of place that makes you lose track of time. It stretches, it disorients. Could've been longer, could've been less, but he's not sure it matters either way. )
Maybe... I don't know, man. Maybe it's the kind of thing you don't get rid of from the outside. Maybe you need to- acknowledge it before you can process it or whatever, you know?
( Maybe that's stupid. God knows he's not an expert in involuntarily manifested metaphors in nebulous dreamscapes, all he has to go off of his gut. A beat passes, then he points over his shoulder with a thumb and tacks on: )
And if that don't work, I'm just sayin', I got some power tools. I know my way around a welder. We can strip that bitch out by hand, one bolt at a time.