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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:00 am
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There had been a lot going on lately, and like many people, Rabbit didn't usually think of the doctor if someone wasn't sick. At least until he did.
One night, just after the new year, he awoke from a sound sleep, his mind full of dreadful questions. What if one of the sirens broke a bone trying to fly? What if someone saw them who shouldn't? What if they didn't need him anymore? Pax had told him to call, and he tried to push the deer creature out of his head once he realized he was thinking about it, afraid that he'd already dialed some mystic otherphone when it was after midnight and he had work in the morning and it really wasn't a good time. But several nights later, surrounded by excited children who had been told they could stay up past their bedtime, he sat in the living room and thought about Pax very hard, hoping that it heard.
Please come.
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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:19 pm
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Sy took Pax's hand in both of hers, not as awestruck as her brother or oblivious as her father. She scooted closer, tail feathers splaying awkwardly across the carpet behind her.
"I'm Sywyly. Aunt Liv put way too many Ys in it. I like my nickname best. Sy. And he's Nev. Neverain."
There was something off about the way she was acting, his troublemaker. Like someone had died. That werewolf kid and Adoelle, definitely. Heliodora, maybe? Rabbit thought someone might have mentioned that in the void. Three tears. Well, if she wasn't gone, then she was certainly out of a job, which meant that Pax had nowhere to hang out. No one to protect with its ice and its insistent voice. So the way it looked probably wasn't on purpose then.
"That's good." The small talk was weird, but he was suddenly a bit more concerned about it than he was with the reason he'd called. "Do you know what we did?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:28 am
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"I... I did," he said, the look he turned on the sirens unintentionally wounded. But he supposed he hadn't, not directly. He had just assumed that since they clearly lived in this timeline, that it was all they knew. But he could tackle what they may or may not be hiding later. He hadn't been fishing for clarification, just a reassurance that Pax wasn't... dying or something because of the new seal. He hadn't wanted to ask directly, but it seemed he might have to. Autumn would probably literally kill him if he didn't make sure Pax was okay.
"Look, don't." He held out his hand toward Nev, who had drawn breath to speak. "I don't want to know that, I want to know how you are... really. Whose... demain... you live in now, without Heliodora. You look... thin, is all." He was pretty sure that one word was way Frenchier than he'd said it. He was pretty sure mentioning Heliodora was a mistake. He was pretty sure speaking of someone's weight was rude, no matter how inhuman they were. Rabbit drew one foot up onto the couch with him, retreating from his own words. "Sorry."
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