yuri catchall

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My gut instinct is to go running in.

[ glances over at Yuri ]

What about you?

[senjinrouha]

Normally I don’t get much say in the matter, but going in would be more my style.

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Then forward we go!

[ points toward the trees! ]

[senjinrouha]

Into whatever's out there, I guess.

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[ into the woods they frolic, then! peering around as they enter. ]

Let me know if you see any kind of path.

[senjinrouha]

[ he's SQUINTIN' ]

I see a lot of woodland. You think people just never came through here, or just knew the forest well enough that the path didn't matter?

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Or maybe it's been a long time since anyone came through here.

[ look at the city's shape, after all ]

[senjinrouha]

Nature reclaiming what was taken from it?

It’s a possibility. But it does mean the kids aren’t going outside of the city much, if at all, if the forest looks this undisturbed.

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Or they don't take the paths that were there before. Or maybe there's something about the forest they don't like either.

[senjinrouha]

... I wonder if they'd answer if we just asked instead of standing around speculating.

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The kids won't talk to me anymore.

[ sounds so, so unhappy! ]

[senjinrouha]

... Did you do something to make them mad at you?

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No. They actually really liked me until they saw Finley when she was a tiger. They were fine when she was a rabbit, but she randomly shifted form when we were visiting and they got terrified.

[ finley looks sad about this! ]

[senjinrouha]

... Yeah, they have a thing about cats from what I've heard. I didn't know if big cats were included in that, but I didn't really want to subject Prav to it.

[ pravda nods, notably not in a cat form. ]

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I didn't have much choice in the matter. Haven't you been having your companion shift forms with random hiccups?

[senjinrouha]

Yeah, that’s why I’ve been avoiding them. [ like, on cue — pravda hiccups into her wolf form. amazing. ]

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I wish I had known before I was with them. I didn't know they're panic from her.

[senjinrouha]

There’s definitely a story there, but… it’s not like they were willing to talk about it.

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No. And I don't blame them, since we're all just a bunch of strangers with animals showing up in their city.

[senjinrouha]

Yeah.

...

I'm surprised they told us anything at all, generally. And didn't try to stab us the second we made eye contact.

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Especially after they found out some people had cats.

[senjinrouha]

“Could’ve been worse” falls a bit hollow though.

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Yeah... But what else do you really say?

[senjinrouha]

"It'd be nice if a bunch of kids weren't abandoned, and didn't have a pathological fear of cats"?

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[ he... frowns. ]

... Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah.