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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:18 pm
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"Right, okay...trying invitation first..."
Whatever there was that she could do, America was going to try. So the first thing she did, as best she could, was picture the ******** door from the void. Solid and sudden and dramatic and unlocked, the dapper figure of Renard on the other side. PLEASE COME JOIN US. She thought the words like a marquee, scrolling and pleading over and over and then, just in case, she thought them out like a bullhorn.
PLEASE JOIN US, MR. RENARD! WE NEED YOUR HELP!
"Okay, and maybe let's send him a text too," she consulted with Gloom, "just in case he didn't notice that."
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:02 pm
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"Thank you, Sunny. But call me if you need anything at all, okay?"
America waited to speak up until she and Gloom were out of earshot, after waving her goodbyes to Sunny and the already retreating Shun, as he led her toward a way out. "What you said," she began, "about there being a way no one gets hurt?"
She offered him a crookedly unhappy smile, "I don't think there is one, hun. No matter how many people we gather or who we try to ask, any time we try to fix something like this, somebody ends up dying. Usually the person we're trying to help. I'm gonna hope but...I can't rely on there being a right way, Gloomfriend. Not anymore." .
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:44 pm
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Gloom stayed with America, his own goodbyes made, chuffing a little bit and listening to her as she spoke.
His paths home were always cloaked in shadows but they would be friendly to America and show her a way.
"Sometimes," he said slowly, his tone a little softer even if it was his usual sweet voice, "there isn't. The right way becomes the wrong way even if there were a lot of good intentions ..." His tail swished. "Try, like y'said, hope, like y'said, and trust y'instincts but there may not be a way to stop hurt- even if y'want to."
Except that, to Gloom, it was important that people tried.
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