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[This is a view from the bottom of a very tall hill - a small mountain, if you will - that is also very steep and has a small cart at the top. Standing next to the cart is Adam Parrish. He looks doubtful.]

This is for posterity, Parrish. In case we die.

[Running a hand over his face, Adam’s faint voice can be heard in all it’s horrifically accented glory.]

I should never have let you watch those Jackass reruns. It’s not the nineties anymore.

[Ronan makes a noise.]

Don’t pussy out on me now-

[Ronan sets the camera down and gets in the shot; the angle such as it can catch the entire length of the hill. He heads up, and there is a moment of bickering at the top that the camera doesn’t catch because that’s how far up they are. The bickering is good natured for all that - they’re not really fighting. They’re just arguing for the joy of arguing. Chainsaw is sitting at the front of the cart and she occasionally contributes her opinions in the form of cawing.

And then Adam scowls, gets in the cart, and Ronan gets in behind him. Apparently, Lynches celebrate birthdays with spectacular feats of stupidly racing down things, because Ronan pushes them. They’re both screaming after a moment, and Chainsaw opens her wings and flies away before they crash at the bottom.

Now they’re right in distance for the camera to catch them, a pile of boys at the bottom of the hill, with Ronan making a noise that’s laughing and Adam-

Adam Parrish, resident misanthropist, who has never been seen really smiling on the network (or anywhere the public can see) is smiling too, and pushing at Ronan.]

That was really fuckin’ stupid. [He’s still grinning though, far too fond as he untangles himself and moves to check out the pretty wicked scrape now on his arm. It’s then that he catches sight of their recording, moving to pick it up and hand it back to its owner when he gets a look at it properly.] Did you press something different?.

What? [He looks up. Ronan Lynch, who has never posted to the Network, didn’t realize that the red button for record and the green button for stream were different things. This is what you get when you hate phones. He gets up, and rolls his eyes, and switches it off.]

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Mallory might have used it, but --.

[ Well, listening to Mallory was an event in and of itself. Sometimes he was just too tired. ]

Oh, Gansey's friend who raised the stupid-looking pigeons?

[ Adam's laugh is loud and clear. ]

Yeah, him.

Honestly, just because I'm English and he's English, I think I've heard about him about three times. Not all English people are alike, you know.

You probably don't piss as much as he does.

Like every twenty minutes.

I think he had a tumor.

Oh - oh, my goodness. The poor man. Is he all right? Has he been to see a doctor?

Don't get him started on doctors unless you want to hear the sad fucking story about how the NHS killed his mother.

[Said with the clear implication that it is the dumbest and most rambling story Ronan had ever heard.]

Erm...how did the NHS kill his mother?

No one cares.

Well, that's a rather cruel attitude to take.

Gansey knows. Even Gansey doesn't care.

Well, if it grew out of systemic injustice, that's often something people don't care about. But it needs to be attended to.

For fuck's sake, Jones, do you practice being boring or does it just come naturally?

[ She gives a loud sigh of irritation, and says - trying desperately hard to sound cool - ]

There's nothing boring about challenging injustice and abuses, Lynch. It's actually the opposite of boring, since it tends to get you in trouble.

You could have just said comes naturally.

Well, it doesn't, actually. If you must know, I actually taught myself to stand up for my beliefs, thanks.

[ ... Kitty. ]

I know. You don't know anything about Pygmy Pouters.

Except that they're bloody stupid-looking.

Except that they're bloody stupid looking, yeah.

Honestly...Why would anyone need to breed pigeons? Pigeons do fine on their own.

[ He's about to say because they're English, but then she'd shout at him. ]

I don't know. They have conventions probably.

Conventions. What, like - shows, you mean? Competitions?