I would always welcome my little cat-eared friend.

[finalbows]

WHO: Rose + (interlopers)
WHERE: Rose Barn
WHEN: Day 18, post BLOOD RAIN


we have a blood rain ward now.

it's on the roof!
it looks like this.

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[themanofyourdreams]

...I hate to break it to you, but you sound like a big brother.

1/3

[finalbows]

Ugh.

...I'm remembering more of it now.

If his brain WASN'T cursed to shit 2/3

[finalbows]

I couldn't handle hearing him say it, back then. So of course, I used it as ammunition later.

Really. I'm the worst big brother. ...In accordance with what I often hear of them, of course, I suppose that makes me MORE of one.

3/3 unfortunately, in this reality

[finalbows]

As if it wasn't enough to be forced into tending a replacement, he developed this intuitive grasp of how the Gaians ticked while his brain wasn't even a quarter baked... before he'd even MET one!

[themanofyourdreams]

Replacement?

[okay that sounds more fraught]

Even so. It sounds like he liked you.

[finalbows]

Back then, sure. ..Wouldn't you? Like anyone who was there, I mean, in such a position.

[themanofyourdreams]

[Asking for self-reflection??? Face-Making Devil shrugs.]

...Not necessarily. I bet he wouldn't like you as much if you were mistreating him.

[finalbows]

<sub>[ this face.

stop calling him decent at brothering when he tries it makes it hurt more how (he thinks) it all turned out. ]</sub>

[themanofyourdreams]

I'm not calling you brother of the year or anything. I'm just saying.

[finalbows]

...I suppose.


Not like it matters much. Those days are long over. He's probably the same age as... Lupin, now...? _{Just shorter.}

[themanofyourdreams]

You haven't seen him in a while?

[finalbows]

...

The story behind me and my "little brother" is long and complicated, dear. The answer to any one question will continue to introduce three more. Anyway! We last saw each other less than three weeks ago.

[themanofyourdreams]

All right, all right. I'll stop prying. I'm just curious.

[finalbows]

Goodness knows if you're just a bit patient, the whole sordid drama will be contrived to be unveiled anyway in due time.

[themanofyourdreams]

Seriously. It's probably not important here, anyway.

[finalbows]

...Quite. It's surprising enough that Blossom was able to pry ME away from the world I was in... I doubt there will be a repeat performance.

[themanofyourdreams]

I don't know why you wouldn't assume that things are only going to escalate from here.

[finalbows]

I--
_{[ god. he has a point. ]}


Can a man hope.

[themanofyourdreams]

[raising his hands, performatively innocent]

I'll hope right there with you. It's not like I want things getting more complicated.