[Dib makes an odd squeaking noise as they stop short, nearly falling backwards. Moth catches him, while Cass is the one to step ahead into the clearing.
She picks the hat up gently in her mouth, bringing it back to place it solemnly into Dib's shaking hands. He has to try not to grip it hard enough to crush it, and just... stares for a long moment before speaking.]
At... at least this, we can fix.
[There's something hot burning in the corner of his eyes, and he lifts a hand to wipe at them furiously. Dipper's right here, he has to remind himself. At least he's still here, in a way...]
Okay. Is... is it over there...?
[He points towards the large bush in the clearing, but Cassandra steps out in front of him again, looking over each of the others in turn.]
I will go look if you wish. I am no stranger to tragedies.
[Her voice is quiet, calm, but full of understanding and sympathy. Admittedly, this one stung more than all the more numerous, terrible, and disastrous deaths she'd borne witness to, being someone so close to her partner. But she was still willing to investigate - after all, she didn't wish either Dib or Dipper to see something so gruesome as she suspected was ahead, and likely they didn't either.]
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She picks the hat up gently in her mouth, bringing it back to place it solemnly into Dib's shaking hands. He has to try not to grip it hard enough to crush it, and just... stares for a long moment before speaking.]
At... at least this, we can fix.
[There's something hot burning in the corner of his eyes, and he lifts a hand to wipe at them furiously. Dipper's right here, he has to remind himself. At least he's still here, in a way...]
Okay. Is... is it over there...?
[He points towards the large bush in the clearing, but Cassandra steps out in front of him again, looking over each of the others in turn.]
I will go look if you wish. I am no stranger to tragedies.
[Her voice is quiet, calm, but full of understanding and sympathy. Admittedly, this one stung more than all the more numerous, terrible, and disastrous deaths she'd borne witness to, being someone so close to her partner. But she was still willing to investigate - after all, she didn't wish either Dib or Dipper to see something so gruesome as she suspected was ahead, and likely they didn't either.]