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[photoshooter]

I still have some Polaroid film left. I can bring you pictures every day. And I'll play with her, and... and it'll be over before you know it! And she'll be so happy to get back to you!

[This is the W O R S T.]

Does, does it hurt? Or feel weird? Missing only part of your color, I mean...

[passio]

Huh?

[ when prompto asks if it hurts, dextera’s first assumption is that he means being separated from his chicken—to which the answer is, of course, yes. the color, however, is a different matter.

he touches under one eye, lightly, and shakes his head. ]

It isn’t like… other times. Other people. I feel normal.

[photoshooter]

[Phew.]

That's good, at least... but weird, though. What does... where does the color go, you think? Or the stuff that gets color back, like--do you think it comes from us? But I don't feel any different if the town's getting my color...

[passio]

[ that’s a good question. is there some force that’s holding their color, or is it more like a death, the color fading out from within when there’s no power to support it? ]

The town does take parts of us, sometimes. [ as prompto is likely well aware, though dextera may not realize it. ] Maybe it always does. We only notice sometimes. The “boiling frog.”

[ and isn’t that unsettling? ]

[photoshooter]

Who's boiling a frog?!

[aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA?]

[passio]

[ wait, no—

dextera’s natural response is to say something, with his voice, when prompto panics like that, but of course he can’t. instead, he holds up his hands placatingly, and quickly shakes his head. ]

It’s a saying. You don’t know?

[photoshooter]

No? That sounds like a terrible saying!

[THE POOR FROGS!]

[passio]

[ dextera has never been on this end of a mistaken idiom, and so he’s not really sure what to do, not least of all because the actual explanation of the phrase is not much nicer than the title of it. ]

If you put a frog in boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put a frog in water and slowly increase the temperature, then it won’t notice until it’s too late. That it’s being cooked to death.

[photoshooter]

[Absolutely horrified, Prompto presses a hand over his mouth.]

Who would do that...

[｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡]

[passio]

…

[ who would do that? ]

People who eat frogs?

[photoshooter]

I think those are usually roasted or fried, not boiled alive.

[Toadsteak drumsticks are a delicious FFXV recipeh.]

[passio]

I don’t know much about cooking.

[ he would eat a live frog, is what he’s saying. ]