Ford thoughts were filled with blood and glass and hideous red moonlight streaming through the windows - and then all of those things are here, along with familiar and equally hideous laughter floating through the air. Ford is slower to react than Stan or Mabel; when Stan starts forward all Ford can do is let his hand slip from his shoulder.
Mabel words are reassuring, but it's Stan's that actually snap Ford out of it. Right, that's right, Bill isn't here, just like he wasn't in October, and even if he can't prove that Stan wouldn't say it if it wasn't true. But just as Stan's words work where Mabel's don't, the opposite is also true: Stan's reassurances start him on the right path, but it's Mabel's that make the path easier to navigate.
"Mabel's right, Dipper." Mentally he calls for Castor, telling her to seek out Alcaid and bring him upstairs, and he feels more than hears her launch herself from her perch above his desk and tear off through the house. "Even if Bill is back we've dealt with him before - and you're the one who found out that the deal we made with him isn't binding us anymore, remember?"
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Mabel words are reassuring, but it's Stan's that actually snap Ford out of it. Right, that's right, Bill isn't here, just like he wasn't in October, and even if he can't prove that Stan wouldn't say it if it wasn't true. But just as Stan's words work where Mabel's don't, the opposite is also true: Stan's reassurances start him on the right path, but it's Mabel's that make the path easier to navigate.
"Mabel's right, Dipper." Mentally he calls for Castor, telling her to seek out Alcaid and bring him upstairs, and he feels more than hears her launch herself from her perch above his desk and tear off through the house. "Even if Bill is back we've dealt with him before - and you're the one who found out that the deal we made with him isn't binding us anymore, remember?"