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[pinetree]

[That doesn't sound terribly important or relevant to him, because it doesn't confirm if Mabel's vision was true. It just confirms that her Stan hallucination was on-point. He can't keep the disappointment out of his voice when he just replies] Oh.

[And that's it. It very well still could be true, but short of demanding a clear answer from Stan, neither twin is gonna find out for sure. There's just one thing he's still curious about.]

That...vision, or memory, or whatever-- it cut off before you pushed the button. You were gonna push the button, right?

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I--

[ She hesitates. She's not about to lie to him or anything like that, she just doesn't know what she was going to do. There was so much going through her head at the time, and now...well, time hasn't helped things. She's even more confused than she had been before. ]

I dunno, Dip. It was so freaky, and I still don't know what the right choice is. I'm so worried that no matter what I pick, it'll be wrong.

[pinetree]

[He may not have experienced his own anger, but he definitely felt it watching the memory, and he can sympathize with...himself(????) on how insistent he was to shut down the portal. Every sign pointed to Extremely Bad Consequences. So the fact that she doesn't know what she would have done worries and kind of terrifies him.]

It's not about right and wrong! Think about it, Mabel -- if you'd let the portal activate, you could destroy the world. If you didn't let the portal activate, what's the worst that could happen? Stan gets disappointed? Is that really worth more than the entire planet?

[Maybe this doesn't matter considering they're nowhere near the portal physically (and in Dipper's case, chronologically), but it's suddenly very important to him that he gets this point across.]