[Of course, Dipper has a new journal. The action is oddly comforting, despite everything. Something familiar and so very Dipper. Given how abnormal everything is right now, this tiny piece of normalcy is so nice.]

Just normal Murdercrabs. But still pretty murdery! I really didn't want to add "eaten by crabs" to my list of reasons why I've died. That's just really humiliating after the other ones. But yeah, no. I definitely didn't get any unresolved baggage themes from them. No ghosts or weird memories or...anything. Just. Murdery.

[He appreciates the journals being put aside. He understands that it means Dipper is actually listening- and he...really appreciates the lack of notes. His story is miserable enough without it being written down outside of Coronan history books.

Still, he hesitates- it's never that he doesn't trust people with this information, it's that he's always afraid that eventually, someone will hear it and cut him out of their lives forever. No one has yet and he doesn't understand why. He exhales slowly, rubbing the back of his neck. ]

It's...probably about time you knew the truth anyway. [Way beyond time, if he were honest.] I just... fair warning, it's... a lot and none of it's good. So this is your official bailout offer before you learn some pretty awful things about me.