Snippet #2040367

Ari just watched Scarlet's little display, before the younger girl pulled away and stumbled over to the bushes, emptying what little she had to have had in her stomach. When she came back, Ari put her arm around the girl again, though it probably wasn't as comforting as it could have been given that Ari's arm was still coated in her armor. She brought her water skin from her belt and handed it to Scarlet, "Here, drink some of this. You need to keep your fluids up, and the way you are losing them, you are going to dehydrate. Lying about your condition is not good for anything, I thought we just established that." She said with a smile, trying to be supportive without being intrusive, "Are you alright? I don't want to end up carrying you the entire way."

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Kass shook her head, sniffling to herself for a minute before saying, "No, it's not...it's not you. I just...I just remembered this one time, I was in the woods outside my city, and I...I found this bear den, and the bear chased me, like usual. Usually, I just outrun the bears, and they don't like to travel far from their dens and stuff. Well, I was running and I came across this hunter, and I was so scared, and the hunter, he...he killed the bear with his spear, and I was relieved, but...but then these two baby bears came out of the bushes because of the howls the big bear made. And they went up to it and they were nudging it and making such sad noises, and they...it was their mama. Those poor little babies, they lost their mama because of me. if I hadn't been so curious, if I hadn't been exploring, I never would have gotten the bear to chase me and it would still be alive and those babies would still have their mama!" By now, she was crying completely, sniffling and sobbing and just gushing tears. She put her hands to her eyes and just cried into them, no longer walking and letting go of Zet's hand, just crying, "I'm such a terrible person, I killed that poor mama bear...Why do things have to be like that? Why can't the world be nice, and friendly, and...and...and...why do things have to so quick to kill? I don't want to kill things, I don't want to leave babies without their Mama's and Papa's..."

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Ven went ridged as Jet grabbed his wing. Ohmygodwhatthefuckwhy? Ven's face was expressionless as he brushed Jet's hand away, twitching slightly as he did, "Don't do that. Ever. Just...don't." He said. The touching of wings was just...there were just too many contexts for those types of things, and at the moment each time he thought of one, it was worse than the last. Honestly, it was mostly just an unwritten rule that unless you were family or a spouse, you just didn't touch a Sorian's wings. Maybe Jet didn't know that. He guided Jet's hand to his shoulder, "My shoulder will do much more nicely. It looks like everyone is getting ready to go, so we should be moving soon. Good. I don't fancy the idea of running into anyone out in these woods with everyone in such bad condition." He absently put his own hand on the unconscious Pyrian girl's shoulder, "We're all just a big, happy, dysfunctional family, aren't we?" He asked, more to himself than to Jet.