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The sneakiest and perhaps most human trick that Crowley’s brain liked to pull was this: Overthinking Everything. Even the most harmless of comments would kick him into overdrive, picking at whatever was said like a scab until its original meaning was mangled beyond recognition.
All this to say, when an afternoon came along shortly after the world didn’t end for a second time, and Aziraphale, apropos of nothing whatsoever, idly remarked, “You know, we never did go for that picnic,” Crowley’s brain did what it did best.
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