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Tree branch: check. Assorted lightweight seed-bearing fruits and nuts: check. Other seeds: check. Water bottle, for when she has to veer away from the river: check.
Better not linger in her starting place too much longer. Yellow's faster than her and may have already come home to a wreck. Thorn might have a habit of checking up on the place, even, just in case. She's invisible, inaudible, unsmellable - that won't help if he sends someone thorough. Or comes in person.
She sets out.
She's been flying for about thirty minutes after her shopping trip when she falls through a tear and squeaks inaudibly and lands in the middle of -
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imeanforever
imeanforever
Promise tries the door. It will not, of course, open.
"Vista, do you have any control over your power?"
imeanforever
Promise needs a fucking self-destruct button -
No, she needs to concentrate and brute force at least one of their names.
Ni. Paige; pay; age. Mcabee; mc; cab; ab; bee. Pig; pih; ig -
No, she needs to concentrate and brute force at least one of their names.
Ni. Paige; pay; age. Mcabee; mc; cab; ab; bee. Pig; pih; ig -
hold_dear
"This will be easier and faster and pleasanter all round if you don't fight me," purrs Cherish. "Come on now. Nothing to be afraid of, I'm not going to hurt you."
hold_dear
"You're very busy in there, you know that? What are you thinking about? Go on, you can tell me." Her voice is nectar. The moments between her syllables are lesser for its absence.
imeanforever
stop the source (can't)
"I'm -"
disobey (but -)
"- thinking about you mostly."
"I'm -"
disobey (but -)
"- thinking about you mostly."
imeanforever
Promise sits down.
(speak no secrets. compromise no goals.)
She looks at Cherish. That's easy to do. Looking at Cherish is a very rewarding activity.
hold_dear
"In a few minutes you'll have a friend. Maybe the first friend you've ever had."
hold_dear
"There, there." Promise's force field was already down so she could try to wrestle Vista out of Mannequin's grasp. Nothing stops Cherish from stroking Promise's hair. "I'm pretty durable. I think you'll get to keep me, once we're friends."
imeanforever
(model yourself without the influence -)
"Please, I don't like being touched."
"Please, I don't like being touched."
hold_dear
Cherish stops. "Asking nicely isn't so hard, is it? But why is that?"
imeanforever
"Most of the times people have touched me it was because they wanted to hurt me."
hold_dear
"Well, then, I think you'll get over that little hangup in time, but no need to rush."
imeanforever
she's so nice she's so gentle she's so patient
(model -)
she just wants Promise to have a friend
(- yourself -)
she never asked for this power did she it's not even her fault
(- without -)
Promise looks up at Cherish with watering eyes.
(model -)
she just wants Promise to have a friend
(- yourself -)
she never asked for this power did she it's not even her fault
(- without -)
Promise looks up at Cherish with watering eyes.
hold_dear
"Oh, you poor thing, what are you so upset about -" Her instinct is to touch; she interrupts herself. "You're afraid - not of me anymore, no - you're afraid for someone -"
hold_dear
"- but who? I'm the only friend you - your other friend is long gone, it felt like - and we're all alone here, it's just us and Vista, Promise..."
imeanforever
"I'm sorry," Promise sobs. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I couldn't, I can't, I'm sorry, I'm sorry -"