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[onebadapple]

"Why hello there! I'm afraid you just missed me! But oh, don't fret, I'll be back soon and return your message promptly. Bye bye now!"

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[onebadapple]

Bernard and Frederick are bears, Sarah is a cougar or mountain lion if you know that name instead, and Abigail is a golden hawk! But I have other friends coming along, those four just tend to worry people the most.

That's a month and then some from now, I'd be happy to come with you.

[tagartist]

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Maybe she takes back the sorry for calling her crazy, it's just shifted focuses to what she's crazy about. ]

Yeah, I wonder why they get worried about meeting typically aggressive predators. Why are you friends with aggressive predators?

[onebadapple]

Oh, I understand why they worry, but around me they're very well behaved. And I'm friends with every animal that wants to be friends, Chloe! [Besides, people are much more dangerous than a bear.]

Bernard and Frederick have been with me for years! Bernard has been with me almost as long as I've been here. He loves to take baths, poor Ariel, she went to take a bath and Bernard was still in the tub when she went. She adored water, she was a mermaid before she was given legs, isn't that amazing? But now he knows to use my tub in the master bedroom rather than the guest tub.

Frederick is much more shy, but they both give excellent hugs.

[tagartist]

[ What does she even say to that? She has some lingering concerns. Big ones. Why does she know how a bear gives hugs? She’s friends with the Little Mermaid because of course she is. Why is the bear TAKING BATHS IN HER HOUSE what is even going on anymore, is this real life???? ]

I… feel like brushing Disney movies off as unrealistic so readily as a kid really did me a disservice all of a sudden.

[onebadapple]

A Disney movie? I didn't know Mickey and Minnie made movies at their castle! They never told me! [Because, wouldn't you know it, in Kingdom Hearts their castle is the Disney Castle and Snow knows all about that.]

But just look at it this way, Chloe, what might be unrealistic for you is common every day for someone else and vice versa! I can speak to animals quite well but when people talk about things like phones and computers, I'm completely lost!

[tagartist]

... Guess they wanted to keep it hush hush. [ She doesn't even have it in her to tell her the truth about this. It's already been a Long Week. ]

I guess... that makes sense. I think I'd take talking to animals over that kind of stuff, though. I always wanted to know what Bongo was thinking.

[onebadapple]

Who might Bongo be? A friend of yours?

[tagartist]

He was my pet cat.

[onebadapple]

Oh, then he was a friend. Pets can be very difficult to lose. I'm so sorry he's not here, Chloe.

[tagartist]

He died when I was like fourteen so it’d be a little weird if he was.

[onebadapple]

Oh, I'm so sorry, have you thought of getting a new cat, Chloe?

[tagartist]

Nah. I’m not really responsible enough to take care of a pet on my own, I don’t think.

[onebadapple]

I would be happy to help, if you want?

[tagartist]

Maybe. I don't know that I'd want a pet here, though.

[onebadapple]

Well, you can always decide on who would take care of it should anything happen! I have Fluttershy and Evie to take care of all the animals should I leave.

[tagartist]

I —

Mm.

I know it might sound stupid, but the thought of loving something or someone that much and then just... abandoning them, whether it was my choice or not, isn't something I think I could do. Being left hurts too much. It's hard enough to get close to people here knowing it could happen.

[onebadapple]

It's not stupid, Chloe! You have every right to be concerned about such a thing, about feeling like you're abandoning someone or something you love and care for.

But... Chloe, it hurts so much more to shove people away and try to do everything on our own.