thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

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From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[S-she actually has no weapons.]

[They kind of disappeared with the tiny.]

From:

pawper

[r u d e

going to yank and twist, hard as she can, to tear herself free even at the cost of being scalped]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[HEART IS VERY RUDE.]

[And they're closing in, reaching for her, mouths hungry, hair tugging out, skin pulling-]

[And then there's suddenly a whole lot of WHITE as white Carapacians appear, and start dogpiling on the black ones.]

From:

pawper

[squirming to get safely within their midst when and if she can, blinking at the white ones in dazed confusion

what a rabbit might feel when pinned by a wolf, only to be inexplicably saved by a hunter's arrow hitting the wolf between the eyes]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[The white ones keeping pulling away the black ones, though they seem disinclined to actually do REAL harm, but yeah, they're not letting go.]

[Another one is scooping up Hydra to carry her away.]

From:

pawper

[no real harm is good

after all, it's nothing personal

being carried away!!]

Ah....thank you. Will they be all right?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[WHY YOU ASK THE AWKWARD QUESTIONS, DREAMER.]

[H-how about we get you home, yes, this is good.]

From:

pawper

[because hydra is awkwardly blunt

also rude don't ignore me]

....I hope they will be, for a little while at least. They were just hungry.

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[Yes.]

[Yes they were.]

[Safety first, little dreamer. Perhaps it is time to explain.]

From:

pawper

[Yes please since she's been flying by the seat of her pants

as carrying continues:]

Why did you help me? Aren't you hungry, too?

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[Patience, patience.]

[Time fast forwards, you're home, you're safe, helping the Carapacian treat your own injury, and they explains. Explains that there is a difference between Dersites and Prospitans. How you're a 'Dreamer' though the term confuses you, and how a Prospitan must never harm one, but for Dersites it's more just really, really bad form to do so before the start of the end. It's confusing, but you understand a few basic things.]

[When Carapacioans are hungry, they have a harder time controlling themselves, and they're all basically starving.]

[The reason you're protected is because of some role you don't understand and not because it's you and that HURTS more than the teeth did in your skin.]

[And no matter what, you are never completely safe outside your house.]

[Hydra is herself again, and she's in the basement. There's Roxy, only five years old, a bandage wrapped around her leg, and sorting through cans of food with a grim determination.]

From:

pawper

[depressing shit, that

.....ah, she remembers tiny roxy

so she knows to sit down quietly, put her hands where they can be fully seen, and say, slowly:]

Roxy.

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[This one is even tinier too.]

[And she jumps, like a startled rabbit, and whips around to face Hydra with wide, fearful eyes.]

From:

pawper

[she was expecting that, so she remains still]

I won't hurt you. I'm not even going to move without your okay.

[it's said slowly, calmly, sincerely, backed up by totally unguarded body language; she thinks about turning into a wolf, or at least trying to, but it doesn't seem like this roxy would remember anything to do with that]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[The slow is appreciated. She flinches as she talks, a hand moving to her ear, and it takes a bit longer for her to parse out the words. She's not used to being TALKED AT and needing to RESPOND, always having all the time in the world.]

[But she makes the motions and don't move! Don't move at all, I can totally fight!!!]

From:

pawper

[she just nods]

I know.

[to double check, does she have her weapons again]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[Yes she does. Not!tiny gets to have sharp things.]

[Gestures, demanding, who are you.]

From:

pawper

My name's Hydra. I know you when you're older.

[A pause.]

Also, I have a sword and a knife with me. You can have them for now, if you want.

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[WEAPONS!!!!]

[Toss them to the corner!!!]

From:

pawper

[She tosses them to the corner! Then settles her hands on her knees and waits for Roxy's response.]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[She moves so there's a wall of CANS between her and Hydra. Protect me, Can Town.]

[And just....GLARING at her suspiciously.]

O....old?

From:

pawper

[believe whatever calms your bitty kokoro]

Yeah. Um, in the future. Maybe that's hard to believe, but it's true. We're friends.

[friends with dokis]

From:

thevoidsdarkhorse

[None can take on the power of Can Town. It is all knowing, all seeing, all powerful.]

[...friends...?]

[What is this magical word you speak of.]

From:

pawper

Uh huh, friends! You, the older you, she's helped me a lot.

[the most painfully sincere honesty, to the point where she has to blink away a sudden tear or two]

So....so I'd like to help you, now.