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2026-10-06
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Convergence

Summary:

A drabble collection of scenes I wish had played throughout the game.

Notes:

worm through time? more like worms through my brain.

this thought gets a drabble! and this one gets a drabble! but i'll be dropping not-drabble personal thoughts in the end of chapter notes. love to hear what other's think!

Chapter 1: Reward Structure

Notes:

Inspiration from the board of rewards in the Prime Candidate Program

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

"I'm choosing my reward, right?"

"I'd say you earned that." There's not a lot to choose, though.

"I want to smell something." Zoe stares at the tray of stale pastries. "French toast."

He's jok—

"Right out of the oven, with warm syrup."

—serious. Excited.

"I meant you could…" She goes for a donut but doesn't get that far, "They let you smell French toast?"

He's suddenly sheepish. "It was our," he winces, "my… When I'd miss…"

She doesn't know how to process this. "Just smell?"

Dylan tenses, sags, "Just smell," then shoves a donut in his mouth.

Anger. That's how.

Notes:

when i saw the board, the despair settled in me. had i written this at the moment i saw it i'd have sworn up and down like zoe. what do you mean you rewarded a 10 to 27 year old with smelling something?! one, maybe two, mints!? A KNIFE?!!? nonetheless, if dylan ever picked that option, i just hope he picked something he could burn into his nostrils, something sticky and pungent and welcoming unlike the program's apparent smell. i went with french toast since he describes fresh bread along with a bunch of sweets when encountering the mold while also in a miscellaneous document from the first game they detail him not eating breakfast. i took the liberty of connecting dots that aren't on the same board. he would surely be homesick, and if he can't directly ask for anything that might remind him, at least he can indirectly remember waking up to a warm breakfast.