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...onto her lips.
"Very honest, please."
Sue nodded. "Well. Some of it is because I was genuinely sorry for souring the mood. But most of it was... *sigh*, to make you feel sorry for me. I think."
Lilly blinked twice, and then a few times more. "Think that, you?" she asked. To Sue's relief...
...let anyone know after all the vitriol that had been thrown her way? The man had no means of knowing, but he knew for damn sure that he wouldn't—
*ba-ping!*
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he got the message last time. Yet another invasive procedure in search of something, ripping up the forest floor as...
...muttered, snickering at her own crass language. "Ideally all I'd need to know about Them is how They look like so I can break their fucking neck, *sigh.* In absence of that, I'll take all you have."
Did She go even paler?
"Inadvisably... forceful tone, taking into Account Its might."
Sue...
...and with how much she was struggling at first, I guess I saw Aurora in her for a moment. I blurted it out, realized what had happened, and then... *sigh.* Things went south.^"
Sue gave a dry chuckle. "If it's any consolation, almost the same thing happened with Jasper when I woke up in...
Chapter 41: Harbinger
Navigating down the stairs of Sundance's dwelling gave Sue some time for thought, almost all of it occupied by her complaining leg. A sunbeam sniping the corner of her vision politely informed her that the evening was upon them, and the noise in the distance signaled...
...that shallow, unthinking passivity, that lack of care about others or consideration for them in your decision-making, that is evil. Maybe—^"
*knock knock kn-croaaaaaaaak*
Sundance's spirited philosophizing was interrupted by the door to her den being nudged open. Every awake pair of eyes...
...and not on trying to work through those mental woes in the typical, gruelling way? Probably not, but did she even have a choice in this body—
*Chirrr, squeak SQUEAK!*
The loud cry coming from the side of the path jolted Sue out of the remnants of her focus, forcing her, and everyone else's...
...caught the kids' attention—as intended.
"Truth? What truth?" Pollux asked, tilting his head as he looked between the mother and daughter.
"Is it—*ow*—about Thistle?" Spark added, her tone as worried as the constant aching would let it sound.
"Were you lying to her before?" a cawing voice...
...the big issue is though," Daystar chuckled, "me and birdbrain used to shout at each other like that every other day and things were fine until she—*ow*—hey!"
As nonchalant as the weasel was about the whole situation, her girlfriend was aware of the need for a more tactful response...
...at the graphic description out of pure willpower.
"Oh c'mon, don't tell me the lil' ones haven't heard plenty worse than that."
"Worse than—*ow*—what?" Spark asked, drawing the group's attention to the cluster of kids they were supposedly being oh-so-concerned about.
Pollux kept the flames...
...back to what she's heard from Joy earlier today threatened to send more tears down Sue's face, but she held through, if barely.
"They and Joy thi—*ow*—think Sue is their mom," Spark helpfully added as she stretched, freezing Sue's mind and body in place. It was true, but not something she...
...in her voice.
"Orgh—orhange?"
"You got it, Joy! Their color is orange, between red and yellow. Any other veggies you wanna know more about?"
*yaaaaaaaaaawnnnn—*
Sue didn't realize the sound came from her until she felt the focus of the rest of the room home in on her, the little toothy...
Interlude V: Velocity
Something very important, huh?
The Windrider sighed as she opened her eyes once more, her faint psychic grasp lifting Latch's letter before her yet again. She'd read and re-read it dozens of times, unable to stop thinking about it even as the sun set around her. Despite...
...reality, just truth! Not me who decide, Sue! Just reality, just truth, dozens dozens generations. My role is listen truth, not doubt, not defy—"
*whi-whimper*
The shrill sound coming from the toothy girl on Sue's lap sent a chill through both their hearts, leaving the medic shaking as they...
...it, doing our best to change ourselves and reaching for others, only for all of them to ignore or blow us off? What if we fail?"
"^Then that... *sigh*, is a sad outcome,^" Sundance whispered, memory venturing towards all the people in her past who didn't succeed despite their best efforts...
...after you when I'm not here. I know she might look a bit scary and unfamiliar, but she's a friend. You can trust her."
"Yeah! Y-you can trust mom! *Ow,*" Spark added happily. The older vixen herself remained quiet at the shout out, holding her chuckles in as she just opted to wave at the...
...wasn't buying that, though. Not for a second.
After all, Justice was awfully shy to actually name the deity that had supposedly brought her here—
*buzz, buzz?*
The bug robot's words snapped Sue out of her increasingly unhinged train of thought, bringing her back to the surrounding reality...
...desperately trying to claw back their standing by either exacting revenge on me, or by taking Comet back. I'd say 'good luck with that', but... *sigh*. Best not taunt Fate.^"
With that desperation in mind, the threats Solanum had shouted earlier today felt much less harrowing. It was one...
It's from a WIP of an artwork of mine and a friend's Gardevoir sonas!
Artist: https://vk.com/art_meri
Link to both the WIP and the finished artwork: https://imgur.com/a/WZo7m9g
My sona is the one on the right, the friend's is on the left
...place, but its population is still much larger than ours, five- or six-fold if I were to guess. The last thing we need are more enemies.^"
*nudge nudge*
Before Sue could continue to probe the topic of Moonview's unpleasant neighbor, she found her arm being gently pulled on by the ghost...