JANE: Excuse me, I’m sorry. “Canceled”?
JANE: Are you even hearing yourself?
JANE: Who in the world gave a literal
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@
As soon as Jane starts screaming, the baby does too. Jake,
sitting approximately six feet away, bounces the infant a little to
calm him down.
-
+
JAKE: I say would you mind keeping it down for
tavros?
JAKE: He was sleeping and to be honest i think
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
she’d forgotten that Jake was there at all—she scrambles to cover
herself properly the moment his voice cuts through the din of
sloppy, moist honking.
-
+
JANE: Jake! Darling.
JANE: Don’t worry. Th-there’s plenty of attention
to go around, my love.
@@ -301,14 +301,14 @@
Jake’s heart is racing so hard he loses focus. He doesn’t notice
that Gamzee is offering him the bottle until Jane’s angry voice
wrenches him back to his senses.
-
+
JANE: Gamzee! That’s been on the ground! Get him a
clean one.
Gamzee shrugs, and squirrels away the
half-spilled bottle in his codpiece. He walks off and returns with
a fresh bottle from the fridge, then hands it over to Jake.
-
+
JAKE: Haha thanks ill just be going now. See
ya.
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
skull like a gunshot.
As Jake gently bounces the baby in one arm, he takes out his
phone to text an old friend.
-
+
JAKE: Jade are you there?
JADE: yep!
JADE: whats up?
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
voice. It’s something to focus on besides the—
OHHHH! HONK!
Jake winces.
-
+
JADE: jake!!! its been a while since you
called!
JADE: is everything ok?
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
to stand. So Jake shuts himself into the first empty room he comes
across and lets himself slide to the ground against the closed
door.
-
+
JAKE: Anyway whats up with you? Hows life with
davekat going?
JADE: oh its great! im really glad i just went for
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Chapter 19
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-
+
+
JADE: how cute do you guys think johns baby is
going to be
JADE: like on a scale of 1-11???
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
Alternian mushrooms that flare up at night with a sick, green
bioluminescence, and from above by the soft glow of his social
media accounts.
-
+
DAVE: i dunno
DAVE: i still havent come to terms with the fact
that johns gonna be a dad
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
Instead, he’s seriously considering Dave’s question. He picks a leg
off one of his beetles and flicks it over Jade so that it lands on
Dave’s forehead.
-
+
KARKAT: BELOW ME BUT ABOVE YOU.
DAVE: yeah exactly
DAVE: now hes all married and pregnant and hes got
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
immature. Jade doesn’t pick up on the obvious subtext in the
conversation, however, because she’s been willfully undermining the
subtext in her own personal life for nearly a year now.
-
+
JADE: well...
JADE: ive actually been thinking lately about how
since rose and kanaya had a kid and jane and jake had a kid and
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
Karkat starts laughing. Jade flicks him in the
forehead.
-
+
JADE: no stupid all three of us!
DAVE: uhhh
JADE: what??
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
Dave puts away his phone and rolls up so that
he’s braced on his elbow. He meets Karkat’s gaze over the rise of
Jade’s chest and smiles at him.
-
+
DAVE: yeah dude i know
DAVE: youre probably like closet dad of the fuckin
year
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
in the fridge more than once in his life. Jade and Karkat exchange
a private look they’ve also given each other more than once in
Dave’s presence.
-
+
DAVE: yeah so anyway im gonna stick to hot pockets
i think
JADE: dave
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
Jade sits up and wraps her arms around her
knees. Her ears go flat as she chews her lip.
-
+
JADE: ...its not like i dont know that
JADE: john never shuts up about it
JADE: i mean, he and jane used to be close back
@@ -291,13 +291,13 @@
ringer for her old Witch of Space uniform. Jade touches the body
with the toe of her shoe, and then gasps when it rolls over to
reveal its face.
-
+
Karkat and Dave stick their heads over the
edge of the pit.
-
+
DAVE: holy shit
KARKAT: WHAT IN THE EVER LIVING FUCK?
DAVE: uh
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
Karkat watches as Jade stands over her own
younger corpse. He notices the way her shoulders are slanted. It’s
clear even from a distance that she’s shaking.
-
+
KARKAT: JADE?
KARKAT: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT’S GOING ON
HERE??
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
gruesome, yet also... peaceful, somehow.
Dave slides down the ridge of the crater and grabs her by the
shoulder.
-
+
DAVE: hey jade you hear us
Jade wipes a hand across her cheek and looks
@@ -336,13 +336,13 @@
massless shards from the sky must have nicked her in the face. Her
eyes go wide and she feels the breath go out of her for a moment.
She looks directly upward. Where did this body come from?
-
+
DAVE: jade???
JADE: yes dave i heard you
Still staring at the body, Jade digs her phone
out of her pocket.
-
+
JADE: i need to talk to jane
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Chapter 2
-
-
John zaps
+
+
John zaps
back to the quietest point in the fridge’s impressively storied
timeline that he can pinpoint, which is on The Land of Tombs and
Krypton, T-minus about half an hour before his final battle against
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
fridge back to Earth C. He zaps himself and the fridge back to the
same picnic grounds he departed from, while cleverly leaving the
chains wrapping the fridge behind on LOTAK.
-
+
JOHN: so uh...
JOHN: i’m back.
JOHN: everyone get ready for THIS fucking guy, i
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
smelling like socks that have been worn continuously for two weeks
straight. John rears back and pinches his nose shut. Calliope
shoots John a sharp look, like a stern teacher would.
-
+
GAMZEE: HOOOOOOOOOOOONK.
GAMZEE: cough COUGH cough CHOKE honk CHOKE!
GAMZEE: wheeeeeeeeeze HONK cough HONK choke
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
Calliope nods knowingly, and pats him on the
back.
-
+
GAMZEE: i Up AnD dOnE sOmE mOtHeRfUcKeRs RaW.
GAMZEE: ThOsE mOtHeRfUcKeRs MoSt Of AlL wHo I
cAlLeD aS mY fRiEnDs.
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
own sobs does she steal a glance at her phone, tipping the fact
that she too wouldn’t mind if this redemptive soliloquy could hurry
itself along.
-
+
GAMZEE: ThEsE rEdEmPtiVe FuCkIn EuReKa
ThUnDeRcLaPs AlL bAnGiNg At My ThInK pAn...
GAMZEE: GeTtInG mE tO gO aLl LiKe, BoO hOo, I’m
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
tiptoes a few yards away from the group and slips his phone out of
his pocket. There’s only one person in the universe who can truly
understand what John’s going through right now.
-
+
JOHN: hey terezi, you around?
TEREZI: WH4T DO YOU W4NT
JOHN: you wouldn’t believe what’s happening just
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
John discreetly holds his phone over his
shoulder and takes a snapchat of Gamzee sobbing in Calliope’s arms.
Roxy is beside them, nodding along solemnly.
-
+
TEREZI: HOLY SH1T
JOHN: i know, right?
TEREZI: H3S CRY1NG L1K3 4 L1TTL3 WR1GGL3R
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
repentance.
Calliope comes to stand with John, her hands folded behind her
back and her expression peaceful.
-
+
CALLIOPE: thank yoU for this, john.
JOHN: um...
JOHN: you’re welcome?
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