[The amount her head can turn is always wild, always surprising -- Atem knew her as a human first, it feels like, from the other world.
Is that scar new...?]
Mm.
[A nod, affirming -- it's an answer to both. His blue tail flicks out of the way so that he can take a seat at her little kitchen-table, the one he'd hidden under when he was stuck in his travel form.]
It felt like...there was a spotlight on in my mind, all of the time, lighting up everything that happened that I didn't agree with.
[He couldn't look away, couldn't ignore it, couldn't rationalize the cost away, couldn't forget every single person who'd been hurt by monsters long enough to try to understand why it was happening.]
It's still my fault, though, for acting on the feelings I had. I was a real jerk! I'm sorry.
[A beat.]
And then I became a living sphere puzzle with a couple hundred eyes when the fog came in, and I couldn't move without feeling sick, so I traded in 20 coins to make that stop. And get my hands back. Being like this is much easier!
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Is that scar new...?]
Mm.
[A nod, affirming -- it's an answer to both. His blue tail flicks out of the way so that he can take a seat at her little kitchen-table, the one he'd hidden under when he was stuck in his travel form.]
It felt like...there was a spotlight on in my mind, all of the time, lighting up everything that happened that I didn't agree with.
[He couldn't look away, couldn't ignore it, couldn't rationalize the cost away, couldn't forget every single person who'd been hurt by monsters long enough to try to understand why it was happening.]
It's still my fault, though, for acting on the feelings I had. I was a real jerk! I'm sorry.
[A beat.]
And then I became a living sphere puzzle with a couple hundred eyes when the fog came in, and I couldn't move without feeling sick, so I traded in 20 coins to make that stop. And get my hands back. Being like this is much easier!