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`"Hey, uh... this is Dylan. You got my voicemail. Leave a message or shoot me a text."`

Beep!

( there's a longer delay before venom answers. )

ONLY AS A MYTH.

HE IS WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A CREATOR.
BUT HE IS MUCH MORE.

THE CRADLE FROM WHICH ARE ALL BIRTHED.
THE DESTROYER OF STARS.
THE ANTHESIS OF LIGHT.

STORIES TO PUT YOUNG SYMBIOTES TO SLEEP AT NIGHT.

Those are your bedtime stories?
Explains a lot, realldszfWE DO NOT ALL GET MARY AND HER TINY LAMBS, EDDIE.

IT IS NO WONDER THAT HUMAN CHILDREN ARE WEAK AND DEFENSELESS.

Because of the... bedtime stories we chose?

PRECISELY!!

( eddie and venom are just sort of like this all the time. sorry, dylan. you were saying something? )

[ Damn, they're just having this conversation right there in the text app, huh? Dylan laughs. Honestly, he's not entirely sure how he'd explain the whole Thing with Knull back home anyway, so he's happy to let the subject be redirected. ]

anyway i'll take out the trash in a sec. :D

( not so fast, weeb!!

You can't just spring Eldritch horror talk at us and then dip off??

How do you know Knull? Is he more than a ghost story in your world?

hes dad number six. tried to do a whole darth vader routine on me.

[ It feels... weird to type that out. ]

Dylan is typing...

Dylan is typing...

ok im honestly having trouble cracking jokes about this. he was bad.

Sorry. Got it.

Alright.

Don't worry about the trash; we'll get it.

no its ok im already on my way to grab it.

i wasnt trying to wiggle out of chores or anything.

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