(It's getting easier, bit by bit, moment by moment, as the vice around her heart and lungs slowly starts to loosen. It opens up space for something uncomfortably like shame to bubble up alongside the frustration, but — Korone tries her very, very best to squash that, or at the very least to bury it deep, deep down where it won't sting so bad.)
Still … she does her best to listen to Lott, and she does her best not to cringe when he asks about her forgetting. It's a sore spot she tries desperately not to think too hard about. She burrows deeper against Macaque, tucking her wings in close and tight, and gingerly squeezes Lott's hand.
Chirps, soft and shaky, Tighter. Time.
Please squish the living daylights out of her until her brain fully reboots, please, okay, thank you. ]
Re: THE CITY ...
(It's getting easier, bit by bit, moment by moment, as the vice around her heart and lungs slowly starts to loosen. It opens up space for something uncomfortably like shame to bubble up alongside the frustration, but — Korone tries her very, very best to squash that, or at the very least to bury it deep, deep down where it won't sting so bad.)
Still … she does her best to listen to Lott, and she does her best not to cringe when he asks about her forgetting. It's a sore spot she tries desperately not to think too hard about. She burrows deeper against Macaque, tucking her wings in close and tight, and gingerly squeezes Lott's hand.
Chirps, soft and shaky, Tighter. Time.
Please squish the living daylights out of her until her brain fully reboots, please, okay, thank you. ]