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Rose blinked at her brother over her cup. “Trolls?”
“Yes, Rose, trolls. Grey and shit with horns and a whole bunch of fucking issues like holy fuck rose their relationships were so damn complicated and just fuck I think I was dating one? Like what the fuck Rose, that shit was so fucked up.”
“Uh. Huh.” Rose sipped on her tea. Her brother might have lost it. Maybe she ought to get him a boyfriend. Obviously, raising her nephew was taking a toll on him.
While she pondered her brother’s mental state, Dave flung his hands about, still droning on about this supposed other timeline where they had played some sort of extra-dimensional video game. Personally, Rose was seriously considering having Dave discreetly committed, but then she would have to squish Dirk into an already crowded apartment with the rest of them. And the family’s income from Dave’s shitty comics and movies would disappear, so maybe it was best to keep him with them.
“And I’m telling you Rose, it was terrible but also great, and there was this guy named the Mayor, hoo boy, everybody loved that guy.”
“Mmhmm,” offered Rose. Maybe Dave had gone off the deep end? But then again, her brother was never this creative. And he was certainly not this enthusiastic about revealing his homosexuality to her a few months ago.
When Dave dove into the culture of the troll world, however, Rose listened. When he went off on his other self’s alien boyfriend, she listened. When he went off about her alien girlfriend, she listened intently. That’s all Rose did. Listen.
Until the sky broke open and the aliens poured forth out of the special void.
Then Dave wasn’t so crazy.