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"We’re just visiting," Morty chirped nervously. "It’s like... a theme park for trauma."

Rick stepped through, leaving the wasteland behind, the silence finally settling over the dust. Rick_e_morty_s03e02

"You seek to leave the Great Nothing?" Hemorrhage asked, his voice a gravelly rumble. "We’re just visiting," Morty chirped nervously

With a flick of his wrist, Rick opened the portal. Summer hesitated, looking at her throne of bones, then stepped through. Morty followed, dropping the scrap metal. "You seek to leave the Great Nothing

But Summer walked up then, her face smeared with engine grease and blood. She looked at the portal, then at the desolate horizon. "I'm not going back, Rick. Here, if I’m angry, I can just throw a spear at someone. At home, I have to 'use my words' while Mom cries into a glass of Chardonnay. I like the spears better."

The giant sat down in the dirt. "My father left when the sky turned red. I spent ten years hunting the man who killed my mother. I found him. He was a cobbler. I realized then: the wasteland isn't out there. It’s the silence after the screaming stops."