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    Perhaps their arrival should’ve meant more.

    Somehow been distinctive, somehow been intense. Underlined by some grand celebration, some sort of hurrah that would herald the end of a journey.

    And yet, it was none of those things.

    Instead, on that final climb up the mountain, Martyn found his mind assaulted by so many conflicting things that the gates passing over his head, the voices calling in awe of a witch in the town…it all fell to the background.

    White noise compared to the figure next to him.

    {In which Martyn seeks, Ren settles, and Scott and Jimmy know when to let themselves out.}

    (Whumptober 2025: Day 9 - Touch/"We'll make it alright to come undone."

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    Their little accidentally cobbled together crew had decided it was in everyones best interest to stop off in the next town along the winding highway toward the mountains. Considering this would probably be their last opportunity to resupply and stay somewhere with a proper roof before beginning the trek up into Silversvale, it was a good call. It was also a chance to try and track down Zedaph, and by extension Tango, which is what Gem and Pearl were off doing, talking to the adventurer and mercenary guilds both, considering this was the last branch of each before the outposts in the mountains. Impulse still had this avian, whom he didn't understand. He needed to find Tango, too. There was so much piling up on his shoulders right now, and all the while he was desperate to try and uphold the thing he'd wished for since the first moments he'd come too back in his pyre ten years ago, with the realization that his little brother, like a brilliant spark, wasn't by his side. No more hurt. On the old continent though, Impulse knew that was impossible.

    {In which Impulse has a big heart, Skizz is playing the long game, and impossible never stopped either of them before.}

    (Hermit-a-Day 25 - ImpulseSV)

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    There it was.

    Up on the mountaintop, with sturdy walls and lanterns on the lookout towards like beacons in the winter night of the old continent. Scott was bundled tight against his chest, under the blanket Martyn had given them. Jimmy was leaning with his back against a sturdy tree trunk, up in the canopy hidden in the leaves. His wings were half folded but relaxed as he looked up at that mountaintop city, beyond which somewhere not terribly far were the free hybrid cities.

    Jimmy had a lot of suspicions about that. He hadn’t voiced them; he knew Scott, for all his determination, was still woefully naive about the ways of the old continent, about how they all function.

    It wasn’t hybrids vs humans or anything. It was far more complicated than that. But thankfully, so far, Jimmy had proven strong enough to protect him.

    Maybe that was why his mind was spiraling, tugging like the last persistent leaves on the dying branches.

    {In which Jimmy puts something to the air, Scott appreciates cuddles from his feathery boyfriend regardless, and it really is about time for an introduction.}

    (Whumptober 2025: Day 1 - Ceremony)

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    Scar wasn't sure why Grian seemed so distant today. He was more relaxed recently, for certain...starting to understand the safety that Scar and Mumbo represented. Scar and Mumbo exchanged a glance and Mumbo chuckled softly with a shrug. This was good, after all. Grian was getting more comfortable with them, at ease enough to ask such questions and then abruptly exit the conversation…though Scar suspected that had more to do with his terribly stunted social skills than anything else. Typically at the table, now that Grian had gotten used to being sat there, he ate quickly and then would ask permission to excuse himself. Then he’d go up into the loft to either nap in his rest or flip through one of the poetry books they bought to help him learn to read.

    Scar suspected it had a lot to do with how he still wasn’t exactly comfortable at the table, even though he now understood he was expected to sit there. The elf wasn’t a huge fan of that train of thought…expectation instead of invitation…but it was all just small steps.

    Small steps.

    {In which Grian moves forward, Scar supports, and Mumbo is still just trying to emotion properly}

    (Whumptober 2024: Day 19 - Alternative - Survivors Guilt)

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    Impulse was used to the cruelty of the over-world by now.
    Gem had learned to battle it, to tear it apart, to bend it to her every whim, to the point that it felt natural.
    Pearl had lived in the cruelty for as long as she could remember, and to her, the pain was the last thing to fear.

    And it wasn't as though everything was getting better, it wasn't as though a stroke of good luck would erase all the bruises that had faded but never stopped aching. Mechanisms that thrummed without anyone knowing, without true understanding, because some coped with false confidence, some coped with cockiness, and some just accepted things as they were, and took the hurt because they'd long since gone numb to it.

    That didn't mean the sounds would haunt them any less.

    {In which Gem wants a table for three, Pearl introduces herself, Impulse gets some information, and empathy burns on soul soil same as dirt.}

    (Febuwhump 2024 - 28 - No, not like this)

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