Sure.

That helps. Slowly, but it helps.

Thank you for saving them, by the way. We've probably all been too busy to say that.

Almost made everything worse. It probably wasn't a good thing to do. I'm not sorry, obviously.

Yeah. She flips over to glide on her back. - thank you for thinking we're worth it, is I guess what I want to say.

Any time. That's why we all went down to that fucking city in the first place.

Yeah.

Maybe it even worked.

Even if it doesn't it matters a lot that you tried.

I'm glad it helps you feel safe or whatever, but no, not really. Trying isn't good enough, not on real problems.

...it's not good enough, but it still matters. Most people don't even try, most of the time. It matters that you do. It matters that you think we're worth that. Not everybody would. Or does.

Right, because most people suck. Doesn't mean you have to lower your standards.

She chuckles. Sure. Find me a hundred more like you and we'll go start our own tribe.

I'd probably still want to wander most of the time.

Yeah, I know. She grins, then goes more serious. I meant, kobolds are social, we can't function without people around. So I can't just decide I'll only ever be around people who're good enough, not without something really unlikely happening.

That must be really hard.

Deep sigh. Yeah, sometimes. It's harder here, kobolds have better ways of dealing with it.

I bet they do. Also I'd like most people a lot better if they didn't talk.

She laughs. Yeah.

Flying is nice.

Tyelkormo is nice.

Tyelcormo is flying. It follows from the above equivalence relations.

Sure.

Eventually: I should go eat. ...I still don't especially want to.

Wanna talk about it?

Sigh. People've been being kind of jerks about Tirinquo not talking - not jerks to them, but, jerks. And when I pointed that out they just got worse, and, like, these're supposed to be my tribemates? - I'm not sure I can explain it without explaining why that in particular is a big deal for me, but it really is, and I don't do well with feeling tribeless these days either.

Sorry.