[over the palisade]

chapter seven

tw// arguing (again I know)

"-And you see, there was this weird little dead duck thing in the middle of the forest so I just took it," Tommy explained, watching as his companion's faces twisted with confusion.

"You took it?" Phil exclaimed, chucking as his son continued.

"Well- yeah. So I took it, you see I thought it was weird because it was already bleeding, and you know, it was a duck in the middle of the forest, but I'm not here to judge what a duck gets up to in it's day to day life," the stale disappointment and laughable confusion spread across the group pushed Tommy to continue.

"Anyways, so if what Deo was saying is right, that is probably what you know... gathered the goblins."

"That... I knew you were stupid Tommy, but really?" Techno said, hitting his brother lightly across the head.

"Hey! Rude! Uncalled for!" Tommy whined.

Then, just like Techno, Phil also hit him lightly across the head, "Your brother is right Tommy, that was absolutely a stupid thing to do- that's like, I don't even know, just idiotic," Phil commented with a laugh.

"Hey! You can't only blame me! I mean Tubbo let me go through with keeping it and I mean Deo was probably watching me! Creepy ass bitch-" Tommy complained, furrowing his brow as he looked over at Deo and Tubbo for explanations.

"Well-" Tubbo started but was quickly cut off by a quiet laugh from Deo.

"I mean I could have stopped you, you're not wrong. I just thought it was funny," Deo deadpanned. Tommy craned his head back and dramatically slapped his hand across his chest.

"Whaat? Why? I could have died, Deo! Died I tell you."

"With how big of a deal you're making of this maybe I should have let you," Deo chuckled.

"Are you guys not going to do anything about this?" Tommy said, turning around to face his father and brother. "He basically just threatened me but like, in the past-" Tommy argued dramatically.

"No. No, no, it's pretty funny," Techno commented as Phil nodded with a small smile.

"This is exactly why I set off with Tubbo! Tubbo wouldn't make fun of me," Tommy suggested, casting his gaze over to his friend.

"Ehhhhh," Tubbo said, shrugging, "I mean... it definitely wasn't... your smartest move," Tubbo paused to think for a moment, "But I mean, you also almost lost our horses... twice? Twice I think," He explained.

"You what?" Phil exclaimed, "How? How did you almost lose your horses, Tommy?" He asked.

Tommy avoided Phil's question as he narrowed his eyes at his friend, "Well at least I didn't almost fucking get swept away by a river because "Oooh! I didn't see it!" How do you not see a whole ass river, Tubbo?"

"It was dark!" Tubbo exclaimed.

"Barely! It was like sunset, not like midnight!" Tommy shot back. "Plus we had already been there for like an hour, we stopped there for a reason, Tubbo."

"Oh my god, I can't deal with you two anymore," Phil said, jokingly rolling his eyes. "How about we speed up a little? We've been walking for half an hour or so."

They all nodded and prepared themselves for the sprint. A large field opened up in front of them that seemed to go on for a few miles with minimal trees or streams around. "We'll run across the field here and group back together on the other side and keep up a nice pace," Phil instructed, looking out across the group, "Ready? Stuff secured? Horses alright?" Phil asked, getting a myriad of nods and quiet yeps before turning his steed around, "Let's run."