but since he seems responsive, she will actually just drop to a sit. the floor's maybe dirty but who cares it's fine. this is news though and her eyes widen.]
A month? [you were all here literally yesterday, please.] Where...or how?
[no wonder pickles was surprised doggie can curse. anyway, bad. that's what she was kind of hoping was not the case but.]
Ah...[that puts some context here.] You're very much alive now. I know that doesn't change any of what happened because you still remember how it happened, don't you? I'm sorry.
[an awful thing to experience, let alone possibly while being alone.]
Did....you come back again if the city was full of other undead?
[ The puppy woke up back in London, its home city, and its owner with a lot of mutual love betrayed and violently chased it out of the house. Everyone hated it. ]
The one you want to get back to so much. [that's extremely rude, actually. she leans forward a little to watch pickles, mostly because she can't imagine anybody could really be okay after having someone they love be used against them like that.]
...did you have anywhere to go? [she's kind of mad because why hate sweet pickles...even if he was an undead doggy. also there's just her own circumstances that make this frustrating for her to hear, knowing they had to go through something like this.]
[well. that kind of says it all, doesn't it? she's not sure how open he is to it, but she does reach out a hand tentatively. will the puppy allow for comfort pets...give her a moment to gather her thoughts but it's fairly obvious she's unhappy this is how things turned out.]
[ Pickles does allow comfort pets and allows the silence to sink in. It seems that he'd prefer this rather than keeping the conversation going, but that's just how things are sometimes. ]
[she wouldn't blame him. sometimes it's too hard to talk about the worst possible things to happen to you even when you know maybe you should. but aerith would be a hypocrite to force pickles to say more than he's ready for. so it's just comfort pets.]
...it's over now. You're back here with us. It must have been very lonely for you, but...we're still here. [ear scritches. what else can she do but assure him of that? especially when you turned around and hit betray immediately i'm so mad OUR PICKLES.]
[you know what, he's right to be sad. this sounds horrible. so she's not letting up with the gentle pets and lets him be upset, staying close though.]
...it's hard when you want to love and care about people, but they find reasons not to love or care about you back. [tentatively.] But your actual owner loves you and wouldn't kick you out, would he? Everything that happened out there was just like a bad dream.
[it's not going to change those feelings or experiences, but...it's something to try and hold onto, she hopes. even if pickles isn't feeling up to talking back, it's what she wants to offer.]
[yeah. okay. hard not to worry about that, actually.]
...has anyone else felt different to you since you've been back? [just to try and alleviate his nerves about it. it's not meant to rush him, but just to help him settle if she can.]
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but since he seems responsive, she will actually just drop to a sit. the floor's maybe dirty but who cares it's fine. this is news though and her eyes widen.]
A month? [you were all here literally yesterday, please.] Where...or how?
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Woo...
[ The puppy says it was beyond the fog and had seen many, many things. ]
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[it's hard to imagine them lost in the fog for a perceived month but weird things keep happening here, so perhaps that's true.]
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[ The puppy arrived in a castletown with the other three people and saw many dead people along with ascending once. ]
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[the idea of being in a city of the dead isn't exactly comforting either.]
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Woof.
[ The puppy says it died once, but it was a nightmare... it thinks. ]
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Ah...[that puts some context here.] You're very much alive now. I know that doesn't change any of what happened because you still remember how it happened, don't you? I'm sorry.
[an awful thing to experience, let alone possibly while being alone.]
Did....you come back again if the city was full of other undead?
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[ The puppy woke up back in London, its home city, and its owner with a lot of mutual love betrayed and violently chased it out of the house. Everyone hated it. ]
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The one you want to get back to so much. [that's extremely rude, actually. she leans forward a little to watch pickles, mostly because she can't imagine anybody could really be okay after having someone they love be used against them like that.]
...did you have anywhere to go? [she's kind of mad because why hate sweet pickles...even if he was an undead doggy. also there's just her own circumstances that make this frustrating for her to hear, knowing they had to go through something like this.]
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...it's over now. You're back here with us. It must have been very lonely for you, but...we're still here. [ear scritches. what else can she do but assure him of that? especially when you turned around and hit betray immediately i'm so mad OUR PICKLES.]
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Pickles stays quiet a little longer, but then lets out a quiet howl. Awoo... He's sad. ]
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...it's hard when you want to love and care about people, but they find reasons not to love or care about you back. [tentatively.] But your actual owner loves you and wouldn't kick you out, would he? Everything that happened out there was just like a bad dream.
[it's not going to change those feelings or experiences, but...it's something to try and hold onto, she hopes. even if pickles isn't feeling up to talking back, it's what she wants to offer.]
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The puppy says it wasn't a dream, and that's why it's hard. ]
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Like a dream. [a soft correct.] But I understand. Experiencing makes it real, so it's harder to shake off.
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[ The puppy witnessed a quick change in a person, and worried that everyone here would have been the same upon return. ]
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...has anyone else felt different to you since you've been back? [just to try and alleviate his nerves about it. it's not meant to rush him, but just to help him settle if she can.]