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[zunesareawesome]

A stupid one.

They have a lot of stupid buildings here. It’s a stupid town.

Do you know the number of the place on the map?

[He’s not bitter or anything, no.

What Rocket says next floors him. It just seems so inherently impossible at the moment he just stares, then explodes in a fit of yelling.]

YESTERDAY?! I’VE BEEN HERE FOR LIKE...

[He catches himself just in time to avoid saying more than a thousand years. That thing they just went through wasn’t real. It was just a bunch of fake memories taking up a lot of space in his head, but part of him was still suspicious of it. After all, it wasn’t something only he’d dreamed up. But anyway.

He rubs his hair, like he couldn’t quite remember how long.]

Like a month and some change.

[procyon_lotor]

[ All the stupid's in that answer gives Rocket the same idea: that Peter's bitter about something. But hey, Rocket has never stood in anyone's way when they want to be bitter about something. In fact, he encourages it. ]

A stupid, kidnapping town.

And yeah. Three hundred and four. But it's starting to sound like this place has radi-fucking-ation, so I need to get outta here. Everyone and their sister is telling me there are tunnels nearby.

[ But when they're talking about time and how long Peter's been gone ... ]

What? [ Rocket's right ear twitches and his nose does the same. He doesn't say anything for a few seconds, his eyes moving as he thinks. Someone else here talked to him about this. ] What's the last thing you remember?

[zunesareawesome]

[Peter suddenly brightens as he pulls up his map. There is a genuine deficit of good luck here, and it's suddenly hit him hard.]

No way! Dude, we're actually really close to you, we're just north. We can probably get to you in a day or two if you head straight north? There's also an app that shows you how dangerous certain areas of the radiation zone are, dunno if anyone else has told you about it yet but that's a thing, use it before you die horribly or get diarrhea.

[Because even the idea of raccoon diarrhea was too gross to think about. And because Peter needed new underoos the last time he got radiation poisoning.]

The last thing? I was cleaning my blasters, checked the ship as one does, went to bed and woke up here. What about you?

[procyon_lotor]

[ If you look closely, it's almost as if Rocket looks excited for half a second, that Peter's nearby. Almost. Maybe. But as soon as he starts talking about diarrhea, he interjects. ]

Yeah yeah, walk north, try not to die. I'm starting to think there's a pretty low bar around here.

[ As for the last thing. ]

Quill you clean those blasters like ... every day we're on the ship, including yesterday. [ He's trying to say that it's not a lot of information. Cleaning the blasters could be ANY day. So of course, Rocket answers just as helpfully: ] I put Groot to sleep, went to bed and woke up here.

[zunesareawesome]

Pretty low, yeah.

[He scratches his beard, frowning.] Yeah, and that's normal, so...

Oh! We stopped for fuel that day, I think. And I did a tune-up on the engines at the stop. And got food and candy.

[...which happens enough that it's not specific either. Peter's candy wrappers continue to litter the ship even when he attempts to clean up. To be fair, he's having a hard time pinning memories down after what happened not that long ago with thinking he'd been here more than a thousand years and the concussions so he's really trying...]

[procyon_lotor]

Right. Food and candy.

[ This really isn't helping Rocket identify any particular day, but he does say something a little flip, which might end up being useful: ] Peter. That literally describes yesterday, not that you don't buy candy constantly, but cleaning the blasters, buying candy, tuning up engines? Yesterday. And a million days before we started getting chased by the Sovereign, but also yesterday.

[ On Rocket's end, it's clear that after doing some digging around, he's gone outside. There might be some perfunctory cursing about the cold weather, but at least he has a natural fur coat. ]

[zunesareawesome]

Well maybe it was yesterday!

[That's a yell of exasperation. He actually has no idea, but Rocket saying the Sovereign gives him a clue. His brows furrow.]

Maybe it was yesterday for you. And me. Before I came here. Or something close.

[This is so weird. And he missed his candy.]

[procyon_lotor]

[ At this point, Rocket cuts off the feed and starts a new one, because he's finally put it together than Peter and @Beyonce and some other people are in the exact same place. ]

( ooc: maybe we handwave the rest and go straight to the reunion thread? )