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[truthandcakes]

Who: Anyone!
Where: The fields
When: Day 12, afternoon
What:

*there's some short kid with a metal arm poking slowly through the fields, carefully studying a funky-looking potato. he's got a few other plants collected nearby, as well.*

Wonder what the easiest way to figure out which ones are safe is...

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[truthandcakes]

*...well. you clearly hate me. but you're from the team I have a lot of dere for. f-following oh god what am I doing*

[approve_dammit]

*we're gonna run for a while then until he finds a tiny cave off-shoot or something where he can crawl into and hide*

[truthandcakes]

*he's a little behind, and waits a moment before saying anything, staying back a bit from the offshoot itself*

Uh... s-sorry.

[approve_dammit]

...you're stupid.

[truthandcakes]

*not going to argue*

My team thought so, too. Doesn't change that I'm sorry.

[approve_dammit]

Better be. You're wrong.

[truthandcakes]

*sitting against the wall, still a short distance away from Wolf's hiding place*

They tell--told--me that a lot, too.

[approve_dammit]

*though you can't see him, he curls up tighter, burying his face against his knees and muffling his voice*

Don't want them here. But I can't protect them if I'm here, either. And you gotta be wrong, cuz... Cuz if I'm not there, who'll remember the others? Who'll make sure Beast gets a bit of the meat we catch too so he doesn't send more lizards after us? Jace thinks it's silly.

[truthandcakes]

...I don't want 'em here, either. But we'll get back, somehow. There's gotta be a way. You can get back and protect 'em, and I'll get back to see them, and everyone else will get back to the people they care about, too.

[approve_dammit]

But I gotta protect the people here, too.

[truthandcakes]

You're really loyal.

[approve_dammit]

*shakes his head, though you can't see that*

...s'not... S'just pack. You gotta... It's pack.

[truthandcakes]

It's not something everyone feels, even with their own teammates. It's... it's a good thing, it's important.

[approve_dammit]

...It's just pack...

[truthandcakes]

...Be nice if more people thought that way.

[approve_dammit]

...your pack doesn't like you?

[truthandcakes]

My team back in Sabra doesn't seem to.

[approve_dammit]

...Jace wouldn't claim me.

[truthandcakes]

What? That can't--

[approve_dammit]

*silence*

[truthandcakes]

...it doesn't sound right. Not the Jace I know.

[approve_dammit]

Dunno. But he wouldn't.

[truthandcakes]

...he's been one of the most welcoming people I've known there. I... I don't know what happened, but I'm sorry it did.

[approve_dammit]

Welcomin' is different than claiming.

[truthandcakes]

Mm... what would "claiming" be, to you?