"Then look further back," Sollux replied as if talking to a particularly thick-headed child. His patience was waning, especially with as argumentative as Dib was being. His eyes narrowed briefly at the flicker in the other's expression, but chose not to bring it up until it happened again, just so that he was sure that it wasn't a product of his frustration and an overactive imagination.
At the mention of Alternian mythology though, he paused. Was there anything that would have followed their culture into a new plane of existence? Possibly, if they had a few troll scholars working on the makeup of the world just like a few of the humans he knew about. Who was to say that they hadn't ended up with the Alternian form of demons, cryptids, other supernatural entities? He'd never been interested in such things, and he still had a hard time really taking interest in it even with Dib giving him more information than he could possibly ever use about what he encountered.
"Look, even if it ith thomething Alternian that'th making pointy shit grow out of you, there'th alwayth prothedureth for getting rid of them, right? Thingth like thith abide by ruleth motht of the time. Tho we jutht...figure out the ruleth of thith thing and..." And what? Hope for the best? That wasn't exactly his strong suit.
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At the mention of Alternian mythology though, he paused. Was there anything that would have followed their culture into a new plane of existence? Possibly, if they had a few troll scholars working on the makeup of the world just like a few of the humans he knew about. Who was to say that they hadn't ended up with the Alternian form of demons, cryptids, other supernatural entities? He'd never been interested in such things, and he still had a hard time really taking interest in it even with Dib giving him more information than he could possibly ever use about what he encountered.
"Look, even if it ith thomething Alternian that'th making pointy shit grow out of you, there'th alwayth prothedureth for getting rid of them, right? Thingth like thith abide by ruleth motht of the time. Tho we jutht...figure out the ruleth of thith thing and..." And what? Hope for the best? That wasn't exactly his strong suit.