by Arcaii » Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:18 pm
Choices:
1: Follow Charlie
2: Go somewhere alone
3: Go somewhere alone
4: Go somewhere alone
5: Go somewhere alone
6: Follow Charlie
7: Follow Charlie
Roll says... 3: Go somewhere alone.
"In that case," you say slowly. "I think I'll head off myself."
Leadership +1.
"Alright, kid." Charlie's voice is back to its normal, relaxed state. "I'll have someone check up on you later."
She turns and trots off down the road. You take a look around you to figure out where you are.
To your surprise, you're quite close to the neighborhood where Thimble lives. How did you get this far without noticing? This is halfway across town.
Ah, well. You pick a general direction, not quite caring where you go, and slowly march off, mulling things over.
Whether or not you want to admit it, this whole thing frightens you. You're replaying events in your head, minus Charlie, and imagining over and over how many times someone could have decided to kill you. No one would have grieved. No one would have even cared. You'd just be another body for the crows to eat. The fact that you haven't really seen any corpses recently gives you some faint hope, but your mind immediately conjures up excuses and horrible fantasies - twolegs picking them up, you just barely missing some around the corner, cats dragging them into the alleys to...
You shudder and walk faster.
Is death so normal everywhere else, you wonder. Are you just sheltered back in your territory? Is the outside world really such an awful place? You had never really given it much thought - you know of some bad things that had happened at home, but those were some time ago, before you were born. It had felt so far away to you that you never once considered your Clan unsafe.
Here... here, everything is dangerous. You've gotten too relaxed in this strange environment. You didn't stop to consider just how terrifying the world really is. Charlie had made it seem like a breeze.
You're suddenly aware of how painfully bright the sun is, and how tired you are. You stop under a shaded tree in a twoleg yard and look around.
You're quite close to Thimble's place. You can see that forlorn brick house if you squint. It looks so strange amid all of these manicured homes. You know the feeling.
Visit Thimble.
Check out the brick house.
Go somewhere else.