Suddenly, without warning, Rose clicked her fingers and looked at Calliope. "Wait a minute." She said.

"yes?" The more they talked to each other, the more clear it was that they should have been friends earlier on.

"The man teleported your research from your house... back to mine."

"i don't really know!"

"You should have paid attention to what he said. Anyway, now he's gone and I have to give it to you again. Be right back." Rose ran off through the street, leaving Calliope standing.

Calliope took a moment to think about what had just happened. She was actually free and among people who accepted her as a cherub, for the first time. Never in her life had she experienced that feeling of a weight being lifted off her chest, even when she worked on her commissions; those were still a matter of necessity, as she needed to be financially stable.

But with the other so-called "Homestuck characters", Calliope felt an actual friendship.

While she was left struck by the feeling, Rose came back, slightly panting from running to her house and back here. "Here. Anyway. I just remembered that there's an issue on the Internet, and I kind of need to be there, so goodbye. You're welcome at my house anytime." She handed the familiar folder to Calliope once again and ran back to her house.

Of course, Calliope wouldn't follow just yet. Rose was still Rose; not only she seemed to be fairly busy, but she had the sort of personality that criticized everyone else.

But perhaps there were some which she hadn't gotten to know quite yet.

Calliope decided to walk up to and knock on the door of the nearest newly acquired house that wasn't Rose's.

Toby and Joey practically burst into Hussie's house. They were laughing along the entire way, sharing jokes from both Homestuck and Undertale, almost as if they had been friends for a while, rather than having just met, as was the actual case.

As such, Andrew and Shelby were quite surprised by how well they went along. Nevertheless, there was something even more shocking in the artist's eyes. "Wait a minute... you look an awful lot like Joey from Hiveswap!"

"That's because she is Joey from Hiveswap." Hussie said, and Joey only nodded. Hussie then went on to acknowledge the other newcomer: "And that's Toby from Undertale. Care to visit my Basement Undertale Museum?"

"Nah. Just to wish a happy 4/13. A bit late, but hey, we're adults with plans." Toby laughed, and with him, everyone else in the room did as well.

"With that out of the way, yeah." Hussie said. "Hey, since Hiveswap is apparently real together with Homestuck... Joey, care to tell us what Alternia was like?"

"Well..." Joey attempted to begin.

Nevertheless, due to Toby, the tale was delayed a bit. "Yeah. Perfect. Let's just recap Hiveswap."

"Am I right?" Hussie participated in the shitty joke as well.

"Anyway." Joey quickly stopped everyone, and began for real. "It's been a while since the tale happened, and I might not remember everything, but I'll try. I was playing outside with my brother Jude and our dog outside when we were attacked by some monsters..."

Dave's brother was quick to open the door after hearing Calliope knock, and furthermore recognized her as "that new friend" and let her in without much hassle.

She actually was quite surprised by what she saw inside, though. In less than a week, Dave and Bro had already made a complete mess out of their new house, with weird-shaped puppets being thrown astray, as well as GameBro magazines and wires. She had to be quite careful not to step on anything, admittedly for the first time in her life.

She found Dave by his computer. On one screen, he was "chilling" on a game made entirely out of blocks, each a square meter tall, wide and long, and on another, having a Pesterchum memo opened. He barely even noticed Calliope settle on his bed, but the fact that he looked to her and back to the screens was enough to tell that he did notice.

"oh hey" Dave drummed his fingers on the desk, trying to remember who the alien was, and after a while, put his palm on the desk, remembering. "caligood girl" He then went back to furiously operating the computer keyboard and mouse.

"yes. hello!" Calliope decided not to correct Dave.

"just wanted to chill in casa de strider together with me i suppose / really theres not much reason to be going here" Dave didn't even bother looking away from the screens, yet it was still clear that he was talking to her.

"i... gUess? yeah, yoU have a point!" Calliope shrugged, then decided to give the folder she was holding another glance. The inscription, "Easthampton Meteor Survivors - 1996-1998", was unchanging as ever, as was the cold hand of the scientists who looked after her and Caliborn during those dreary days. She shivered, but Dave didn't even take notice because of his game.

Dave then suddenly changed demeanor, showing that he was no longer interested in Calliope. "oh ho ho guess what we have here / miss this support group thing is totally workin out" He shut off the window of the game, focusing on the chat full time. This also made Calliope put the research aside and peer over the computer screen.

She could make out that it was the same Homestuck Character Support Group memo that she, Jade and John had created, but with different people. And it seemed that some of them weren't even Homestuck characters...?

Unable to piece what was going on, Calliope got back onto Dave's bed and flipped through the research folder once again, while Dave himself was busy proving someone wrong on the Internet.