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[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

Who: Anyone in the area
Where: The Fields
When: Day 215, early evening
What: HOMEWARD BOUND

[Torchlight starts to dim at the Fields. It's not from the north but the southern most corner where a guy in very dirty pink wanders in. Shaken and exhausted, he mumbles to himself]

Can't stop... almost there...


((small note for the observant, his shadow is kirin-shaped
- Back at Cygnus))

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[howltoremember.insanejournal.com]

[totes in the fields. Who is that--]

. . . Taiki?

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[wavers and looks around, squinting as if it was bright]

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

. . .


[totally drops her still-living game]

[howltoremember.insanejournal.com]

[omg. runs towards!!] TAIKI!

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[shuffles towards the greenery in the area]

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[stops here] ...Poppy?

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

Tai . . . TAIKI! [TAKING OFF TOWARDS HIM 8< ]

[howltoremember.insanejournal.com]

You're back! [paces near Taiki worriedly] Are you okay? I can show you where your dorms are.

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[looks up, eyes going wide]

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

[aaahh ;; AAAAAAAAAHHHH stops right in front of him, holding him so, so carefully at arm's length]

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

Ah.

[he smells like a lot of dirt and mud. his hands shake]

I'm here.

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[his expression is tense and bleak, but he raises a hand towards her]

Blood?

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

[nods, barely moving]


Yes. You're back. You're out. I'll take you home.

[howltoremember.insanejournal.com]

[licks that hand :<]

You're safe now.

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

Blood...

It was so... the stone—

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

[tearing up, brushes his hair back]


It's all right. It's all right. I'll take you home. We'll get you cleaned up.

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

Poppy.

[touches the top of Poppy's head, kneading the fur there]

I-it was a long walk.

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[nods, squeezes eyes shut and then open]

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

Do you wish me to carry you?

[howltoremember.insanejournal.com]

Mm. But you made it! You're safe.

[unicoorn ;; nuzzles and licks at his hand reassuringly]

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[doesn't answer and instead moves forward to hug her]

[maryhadalilgun.insanejournal.com]

[carefully, carefully bring up a hand behind his head, petting his hair, the other on his back]


It's all right. It's all right. You're out.

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[continues to pet, his expression easing]

[unicursed.insanejournal.com]

[breath hitches a few times before it steadies]

[howltoremember.insanejournal.com]

[there is a wolf here fussing over unicorn too. :( whines at you]