[Nyu brightened despite her vine-drunk sluggishness, her end of the Bond becoming light and bright and airy. Her cheeks took on a bit of color and her ears flicked up, too. She'd done a good thing! A good thing.]
It has...? [Her voice trailed off, and she looked more quizzically into the trees. They were...they weren't so green last time, were they?
The Chimera made a soft hum as she looked, the smile on her face fading only a little.]
Oh. I guess so. [Another time, another place, Nyu might have been more upset about that. More time lost. More opportunities lost.
But...like many right-now things, it was a struggle to think about in more than hazy abstracts. The Chimera's tail flicked this way and that, and that worry drifted out of her mind the way sullen clouds might, too big and too wispy to contain.
...what was she worried about, again?]
I guess so. [Nyu murmured, with a mind that felt like it was swaddled in soft cloth. She didn't have to worry. There were no scary things here.]
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It has...? [Her voice trailed off, and she looked more quizzically into the trees. They were...they weren't so green last time, were they?
The Chimera made a soft hum as she looked, the smile on her face fading only a little.]
Oh. I guess so. [Another time, another place, Nyu might have been more upset about that. More time lost. More opportunities lost.
But...like many right-now things, it was a struggle to think about in more than hazy abstracts. The Chimera's tail flicked this way and that, and that worry drifted out of her mind the way sullen clouds might, too big and too wispy to contain.
...what was she worried about, again?]
I guess so. [Nyu murmured, with a mind that felt like it was swaddled in soft cloth. She didn't have to worry. There were no scary things here.]