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[laniidae]

I don't do things for the sake of thanks. And...I'm not used to such things being offered to begin with. It just makes me feel strange. You're so...earnest about it.

[it is hard when sometimes we have a whole feeling about things and that feeling is not BIG MAD.]

It's just, you don't have to be grateful. I'm used to taking care of the people that matter.

[enblightened]

I suppose... for me, it has been too rare until recently that there would be anyone concerned about my well-being. In the heat of battle, one comes to rely on a comrade and there is a need to protect them, but outside of that... not so much.

I've no interest in making you feel uncomfortable. I will try to mind my words.

[laniidae]

But recently that's changed, then?

[She tips her head a little, birdlike, and regards him thoughtfully.]

You've found people here you like to be around? Not just...grateful for. But ones that make you happy?

[enblightened]

Yes. That much is certain. There are people here that mean much to me.

[which includes Renfri but he doesn't wanna make it awkward for her right now]

...I am still horrified by what has transpired, but the swift understanding I have been given has astounded me. I sincerely doubt I would be so forgiven in my realm if the same had happened there.

[laniidae]

Well. I suppose that comes of the fact that none of us can really call ourselves normal here, can we? We all crawled out of the ocean. All wiggled our little tentacles.

[She wiggles her fingers at him, for emphasis.]

It's easier to understand when you're like someone. When you can't make them different from you.

[enblightened]

[A soft huff escapes him, something close to a laugh.]

I suppose that is true. I would have accepted their distrust and hesitation regardless... yet there are many like me here.

I had hoped to demonstrate my willpower. Now I am less certain, even if I am not entirely at fault.

[laniidae]

You shouldn't have to be afraid. You shouldn't have to live...being afraid of what might happen.

[With her arms folded over her knees, and her gaze somewhere in the middle distance, she's probably not just talking about Bigby anymore. Commiseration.]

That doesn't mean it isn't still the case, I know. But it's wrong, just the same.

[enblightened]

Nor should you have had to endure what you have been through. Regrettably, our lives have taken turns we wish were different. ...But we will endure. Won't we?

For everything that has occurred, I do not regret being in Trench. It is still a brighter place than where I'd been before. That much is true for me, anyway.