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slightlynyx‌

nyx could only shake her head, but she almost didn’t even do that because it felt like a needless motion. he’d expect that dismissal from her with the thanks. too many players around them were dropping lower on their health bars but how low his got was the reason her shadows snapped out of her like they did. “vision, she..” nyx’s throat tightened a little but, not here, and not right now. nyx hadn’t yet unwrapped her hands and instead of doing that she hugged her arms across her chest and lay her side against his side, cheek to his shoulder, she tucked her hands under arm against her ribs and left them there. she’d trained under jupiter, they both had, they were lucky they still elektra, nyx had trained in every shadow of footstep behind vision and to lose her something that wasn’t sinking in. nyx wasn’t sure she wanted it to, like she could just pretend vision was somewhere….not gone. jupiter…her thoughts stopped right there and for now that was for the better because for now rye’s lips touching down in her hair let her eyes close for a moment. she’d been staring at his monitor and with her eyes closed she could still see the neon color of the image of it. she never heard rye curse, but even hearing it now didn’t phase her because it felt deserved. “yeah.” she’d answered the question before giving it any thought at all and her inventory clicked open, amber eyes looking up to him. “how long do you think they’re keeping you?” if she just kept her eyes on him then for now she could just focus on what they needed to do to recover as a guild. he was still here, she was still here, elektra, others she knew and so many she needed to check on but it was one step at a time. he was still here.

he felt the shake of her head and he only pulled her in closer, breathed her in more. he heard her words cut off, and he was kissing her head softly. he couldn’t tell her that it was going to be okay, because at the moment it wasn’t. there was pain, there was loss. something they were allowed to feel. he didn’t want to face anyone else at the moment, didn’t want to deal with other guilds being upset. he just wanted to be here with nyx, holding onto her while, his eyes looked to hers. there wasn’t much to say in times like these, and rye wasn’t the type to make useless chatter or say something that wasn’t really worth saying. again, he didn’t like telling anyone that it was going to be okay, that just set them off in different directions, and next thing he knew he was being yelled at. right now he didn’t want that and he could see that nyx didn’t either.  he watched her open the inventory up, her inventory and then he heard her question. “oh, in about 0.2 seconds.” he whispers, before taking one of her teleporting crystals and using that, to send them both back to her place. battle healing was kicking in and once they were at the garage he let out a breath of air, because he really didn’t like being in a public place when things like that happened and they tried to talk to one another only to end up having someone overhearing them. he preferred his one on one time with nyx anyway. “that’s better.” he murmurs eyes looking to hers softly. 

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slightlynyx‌

her eyes moved to his monitors, from where she’d seen his health dropping to near four percent out there in the battle it was bleeding higher now and touching the high thirties. he must have been here an hour or so which told her at least one potion had been used to get him into a safer zone. she climbed onto the bed bedside and her cheek found his shoulder, eyes watching that number on the monitor. “the knights.” she answers, though his question about what she meant told her that he didn’t know what she knew and that made her stomach knot up. she wasn’t thinking about other guilds right now, she always tried her best to think about the safety of other guilds, but for tonight she decided they could handle their own worries, for tonight she didn’t want to think about anyone outside of their guild. that would come, but not tonight. rye was quick, and he was tuned into her so much so that she knew he could read her more than she liked at times. she actually hated it most of the time and when he looked down at her and wrapped his arms around her more she wasn’t wanting to look him in the eyes. but she still did. his lips pressed to hers and she stayed there for it, but it was followed with a small shake of her head, to dismiss his apology. “you were right there, so was i.” neither of them had broken their words to each other. “but we were down in numbers.” she starts, wiping her hand back through her hair to push it back, some of her hair stuck to where a little blood had dried on her hairline. she couldn’t be bothered with it. “we are down in numbers.” nyx looked back up to him with that truth. her throat felt like it was closing up on her but she managed, she always managed, she would always manage. “jupiter. vision.”

he could see her eyes looking past him and he knew where they were looking too, which just had him pressing his lips to her forehead, breathing her in when he heard those two words. that gave her his full attention, though she always had that, and his eyes looked her over, able to see that look in her eyes. he knew something bad must of happened because nyx rarely was like this, she never was like this, nothing phased her and yet something did. he wished he had been paying more attention, but he was also trying his best to make sure they both came out of it alive. he nodded his head when she told him that they were both there, which was the truth, they both were, but it didn’t mean that he was being safe. he was trying so hard to be safe, to protect himself and make sure he had her back. he just didn’t mean to almost kill himself and leave her in this game alone without him. “thank you. for what you did.” he knew he didn’t need to thank her, but he did anyway, because he knew if nyx didn’t do what she had done, he wouldn’t be here with her right now talking to her. no one else had come into see him and he was fine with that, rye even in blood oath kept mostly to himself, he wasn’t one for social interactions, and the only person he wanted to see, was the girl in his arms right now. he heard her next words, watched her movements, and he helped her with her hair, noting the blood in it. it made him frown a little, before looking into her eyes. they are now down in numbers is what she said, and rye wondered who they lost. he didn’t have to wait though, because nyx told him, and now everything clicked into place. the way she looked, the way she was talking all of it just clicked into place, and he just held her tighter lips pressing to her hair, breathing her in as he just held her, comforting her. he didn’t know what to say, he didn’t know if there was anything to say. their leaders were gone, vision and jupiter both. “fuck.” he didn’t normally swear, but it felt needed in this moment, because it was overwhelming right now. “do you have any healing potions?” not to change the topic, but he didn’t want to be here with her, not where someone could just walk in and see them and overhear the conversation. he didn’t want to have this conversation here. 

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loading players; @playersparkles & erebus location; floor 25, blood oath hq

after the battle he was rushed to the infirmary where he had woken to find nyx. they had rested there while he was healing, and she filled him on what happened how they had lost vision and jupiter. it was a hard blow, something he wasn’t sure how to handle. he only lost one person in his life and that was his mother, and even then he didn’t really handle it. he just worked to get out of the house and out of his head. now here he was, with a beer in hand at the hq. he had been appointed to battle strategist because of the loss of vision, while nyx had been appointed to second. he was proud of her, for how far she had come from doing something she wanted to do, how could he not be proud? he was sipping on his beer and flicking ash with his other hand, lumos right beside him, resting his head on his lap. it was like even the dog knew erebus wasn’t in the mood. so when footsteps came over, he couldn’t help the deep breath that passed through his lips. he pulled the other chair out for the male, seeing that it was sparkles, and offered him a beer. he’d lost vision and jupiter too, so he wasn’t about to say anything that might sound harsh. darkness was sweeping through blood oath right now, and it had nothing to do with nyx’s power. erebus could feel the darkness in him slowly creeping forward. “think we could all do with a wind down.” he didn’t feel like talking much, he didn’t feel like doing much of anything. he was here because nyx was, and right now, he just wanted to be close to her.

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@erbvs

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“body like a back road, drivin’ with my eyes closed i know every curve like the back of my hand doin’ 15 in a 30, i ain’t in no hurry i'mma take it slow just as fast as i can

the way she fit in them blue jeans, she don’t need no belt but i can turn them inside out, i don’t need no help got hips like honey, so thick and so sweet it ain’t no curves like hers on them downtown streets”

@slightlynyx

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hadeswrxtes‌

location: floor 1. bar.  players: @erbvs and hades

Floor 1 seemed fitting really. Hades has been fighting with nearly everyone he knew and truthfully, he just needed to get away and be surrounded by level tens that just wanted to enjoy a good beer and wait this whole thing out. Erebus had reached out after the battle to do a general check in with which Hades replied to with a classy skull and beer emoji… Which was new because… he never used emojis. 

He must really be upset. Huh. 

He downed his first beer before turning to find Erebus approaching him. “If you’re going to yell at me, can you wait till I finish my next drink?” He grumbled, calling for another pint. 

the city lights was something erebus couldn’t get used to. though he had to smile when he saw the cars on the streets because he knew nyx would love it, she’d probably move herself up there if she could. but the lights and the sounds just weren’t for him, and he found himself back at floor one after he was checking in on hades. he was caught up to speed on what happened, and the loss was definitely a big one, something he still couldn’t wrap his head around. he wasn’t sure how they would go on, but he knew if anything they would manage. they would find their footing. he spotted hades in the bar, and made his way over to him, a light frown appearing on his face looking at his old friend.

“think you’d know me well enough now to know i wouldn’t yell at you.” he tells him, before he was sitting down on the stool beside him, before he was ordering himself a beer and then his cinnamon hue turned to hades. “getting yelled at a lot?”

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slightlynyx‌

she remembered rye being at her side, seeing his power okay and then seeing moments later how quickly it was depleting. her world slowed down in that moment, no chance of him taking another single blow and surviving it, adrenaline in her burst forward with her magic and she had pushed a barrier of shadow, a cloud of ebony out around them and few others who had been close to nyx enough to be covered by it. it was the same moment that the boss had cried defeat and the air around them had silenced, and then it was a stampede of running players, frantic to collect their guildmates, their partners, to offer aid to anyone hurt. some must have swept in on erebus because by the time she’d fought through the dizziness of the blow she’d taken to the head and the final push of her magic that had taken energy out of her, he hadn’t been at her side anymore. she’d stood there for a long time trying to process, everything, anything, she felt little sense and very little balance in her steps. jupiter was gone, her fellow battle strategist vision was gone, and as far as she knew at the time, rye was too. now that she had found him, now that her eyes were on him, she couldn’t bring herself to ask if he knew yet all that their guild had lost. she couldn’t open her mouth to say anything. he was alive, and when he beckoned her closer nyx moved to the bed he was tucked into and she climbed gently onto it too to rest herself down against his chest, cheek resting to his shoulder, the sprain of bone in her wrist and forearm from her magic retaliating was nothing to her in this moment. “we’re not.” she mutters quietly, and for right now she meant it. right now she meant ‘we’re not okay’. 

he knew that the boss battles were just going to get harder in time, knew that this one would probably be easier than level 53. it was always like that in games, you leveled up to the max, but you were still not enough for some bosses. he didn’t seem to be able to handle this one, nearly lost his life if it weren’t for nyx doing what she did best. he wasn’t sure what happened to the rest of his guild mates, though he had never seen an infirmary in this game, but he must admit, it was nicer than some hospitals were. he pulled nyx into him, lips pressing to her hair, eyes looking her over as her cheek rested on his shoulder. he saw her wrist and heard her words, and his fingers gently trailed up her arm, doing whatever he could to sooth her. “you mean the two of us, or everyone?” he murmurs, wanting to make sure he had heard her, understood her, because last thing he wanted to do was assume that he knew what she was talking about. “we’re going to be okay though, yeah?” he asks, unsure of what happened, but something in his gut told him he had missed something, obviously. but something that could detour them, cut them down just a peg or two. he didn’t like that feeling and he only wrapped her up more, careful of that arm that was resting on his chest. “i’m glad you’re okay. and i’m sorry i wasn’t being careful enough.” he whispers to her, pressing another kiss to her curls, before finding her lips to press a soft kiss there. he really didn’t know what he would of done if he had lost nyx, or if she had gotten injured because he wasn’t being careful.

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slightlynyx‌

loading players: @erbvs​ & nyx location: infirmary

she didn’t know how bad it was but he’d been close to her side when he fell. rye was always close to her side, he never left hers. they shouldn’t have gotten in the habit of that, all she wanted right now was those bad habits behind them; to know he was okay. she’d be angry later, she was sick to her stomach right now, he’d expect that. nyx found the infirmary, a failed attempt with three crystals because her hands had been shaking so bad and her focus just the same, but she managed and located him as quickly as she always would. she might know that recovery would be quicker than out in the real world, but it didn’t comfort her much when she found his eyes and moved closer to him. that was done slowly because she was trying make her lungs find that breath of relief people always talked about. so far her chest was just tight and she wasn’t sure she was going to manage that. “hey.” as much as he might be expecting some kind of jab out of her, no….she didn’t really think he’d be expecting that out of her right now. rye knew her better than that. the turnaround time for injuries being about a day…didn’t change anything or make this better. 

rye wasn’t injured persay. he knew what happened on that battlefield, knew that he used up all of his energy to help fighting the big monster. he was right beside nyx battling with her like they always did. there was never a moment where they faltered they were such good fighters together, they knew exactly which move the other was going to make and countered it with their own. he was glad she wasn’t as badly banged up, she was too good to be banged up, but he managed to deplete his energy his health to almost nothing. so when she came into the room his eyes stayed on her, looking at her, eyes never wavered from her. “come here.” he whispers to her, gently tugging her uninjured arm and pulling her down on him so he could wrap his arms around her and hold onto her tightly. “i’m okay.” he whispers and that was the truth, he just had to wait for his health to come back up and then he could leave. “you okay?”

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userluna

“Oh I think we’ve been over this before, Bus. I know I’m going to die, it’s only a matter of when. But I’d prefer it be in something a bit more badass than a little mini game to pass the time. Besides, I think I can hold my own against whatever little goody-two-shoes you set me up on a playdate with.” She rolled her eyes and stuck to the lie, “Gotta think quick on your feet, otherwise you get knocked off them. You know, I do think I would be good enough to beat them lying down, but I’ll be putting my best foot forward, just for you.” She paused and smirked, “So, you think I’m pretty? And here I thought you never noticed.”

“you’re really going with the nickname bus?” he asks her, shaking his head though he was listening to her. “i think dying in any battle would be considered bad ass. you’re right. you probably could hold your own against them.” he murmurs, shrugging his shoulders. “i really don’t know who would want to be on my team anyway.” he didn’t have much friends, that was why he only had two choices, and honestly either one was as dangerous as the other. “and which foot would that be?” he asks, before he was smiling at her next words. “would you prefer if i just called you ugly? because i think i could manage that. i notice a lot of things, luna.”

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players; hades & erebus location; level 24

@hadeswrxtes

just when he thought he had the monster down for the count, it just came back up more angry and apparently more aggressive. erebus was good at fighting, he was a top notch fighter, though he wasn’t arrogant or cocky about that, but it was just the truth. he never had to deal with this type of thing though. video games like these weren’t something he played. he always thought people on the other end of the world, when they saw him would just start laughing at how stupid he was. they would find it almost comedic just to have him around. his lungs demanded air as he was thrown onto the ground, and he rolled quickly out of the way, as the monsters foot was going to come down on his head. with quick speed he managed to use his scythe to slide it across his achilles heel dropping it to his knee. “jesus christ.” he huffs looking to the cataylst player who also seemed to be worse for wear. “tell me again why we’re doing this?” perhaps not the right time for making small talk, the monster wasn’t dead yet.

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players; thanatos & erebus location; floor 51

@zcndi​

he wasn’t used to so many people up here on this level. erebus tended to shy away from people not usually one for good social skills. he put it down to looking after his mother when he was younger, always making sure she was okay. except the one time he did decide to go out and play with friends. it just wasn’t something he was good at. thanatos came into view and he remembered their last talk, remembered how she wanted to pat lumos, and erebus said she was allowed. he wasn’t a complete asshole, he understood where things got turned around, when his words could be taken the wrong way. it was on him, it was never on the person who was receiving those words. he needed to do better at talking to others. once he’d explained himself to her though it was clear there was a miscommunication and it tended to just be his tone, or his words that made that happen. 

because she had patted lumos once before, the dog ended up running up to her, despite erebus’ discouragement to the dog, telling him no. “sorry.” he mutters to the other player, trying to get lumos under control. “unlike myself he seems very happy to be around people.” he tells her, offering her a gentle smile. “itching to get to the other level? or do you really just like it up here on level fifty-one?”

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userluna‌

“Good. I’m free Saturday.” Unlike Erebus, she didn’t actually want to give her whole schedule away. He was such a boy scout he’d probably report it back to his HQ for future strategies against the guild. And she could use the time to prepare. “It goes without saying that deadly harm is the only thing off limits, but I thought I should say it for good measure. I have faith in my partner–” which was half true considering she hadn’t chosen one yet, but she trusted herself not to choose someone ill-fitted for the task, “–but I don’t think they would have made you a guard if you weren’t exceptional at what you do. Then again, maybe Blood Oath has lower standards than Catalyst, who knows?”

saturday seemed like the best time to do it, so he nodded his head agreeing with her before hearing her next words. “afraid to die, luna?” he asks her, shaking his head. of course he couldn’t stop link from killing her. and if they were doing this away from others....he’d make sure to tell her, but he wasn’t about to tell luna that either. he’d keep his partner to himself until saturday when link can make her own appearance. “picked your partner already? that’s bold.” he says, smirking at her, before he was rolling his eyes. “considering catalyst are much more lazier than blood oath, i’m actually surprised you want to play a little game. or you just going to bath in the moonlight, and think your pretty face is going to stop my team mate from taking your flag?” she could try to insult his guild all she liked, but at least they were here trying to save everyone. what did catalyst do? other than whine and sit around on their asses all day trying to boost their egos because no one else would do it for them?

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dcvcid‌

“Would you believe me if I said it was a goldfish?” he joked, taking a potion from the other player.

It wasn’t. It was most certainly not a fish - it was something that kind of looked like a bear, but he hadn’t trained with monsters on floor 33 in a while so its name escaped him. Could he easily look it up? Yes. Would he? No. It didn’t matter.

He chugged the liquid, grimacing at the flavor. “What, you’re not constantly picking battles with monsters bigger than you?”

a chuckle passed through his lips hearing the others question. he couldn’t help but nod his head. “after the fish that everyone else fought? i wouldn’t be surprised at this point.” he tells the other male, watching him take the healing potion he had given him.

there was nothing worse than wandering around here not healed, and some person taking an advantage of that and just cutting you out of the game, and taking your loot. granted if people’s lives weren’t actually being lost in game, he knew that would happen to a lot of people. it was why erebus barely went anywhere if his health was even at ninety. hearing the next question erebus shrugged his shoulders at it, pulling out a packet of smokes to light one up. “i am. but i tend to heal after the battle is done.” he tells him. it was the first thing he picked up. the battle healing. if he got himself into trouble, he just made sure to run away from it, wait until the battle was done and then he’d heal. then he’d think about his next strategy for that same battle. “just don’t need it right now.”

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padmeonline‌

Padme, who did not seem particularly concerned with the people throwing, looked up from her drink. “Uh, hu,” she said simply. “It’s love–well, lust.” It made people do crazy things: like get into brawls on public streets when they should really be saving up their health points for the next Big Bad. She mixed her umbrella around her cocktail, raising an eyebrow at the vaguely familiar man–oh yeah, the one who didn’t want her food. “You ever throw someone through a window for love?”

he was worried for this woman. considering the first conversation they had and how it went, and now the question that was shot his way. “why would anyone want to throw anyone through a window for love?” he was considering looking her up once they got out of here. seeing how her life was like out of this game, because honestly? it felt like she had some domestic abuse going on at home, and someone needed to look into it. “is there troubles at your house?” he asks her, going straight in for the question because it was on his mind, and work tended to come first to erebus, there wasn’t a moment in his life where he had stopped working. 

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playernoir

          the aftermath of valentine’s day hit noir hard, especially since she had decided to drink the pain away. after the festivities had ended, noir teleported herself back to floor 51, in hopes to prepare for the next boss battle. many players were still on floor 1, but the blonde couldn’t stand one more minute of the lovey-dovey stuff. she found erebus on accident, only walking into the forest in hopes to find her favorite training spot unoccupied. “ ‘fraid so. ” she told her fellow guild member with a lopsided grin. “ everyone should be coming back soon. ”

he was wiping at his brow when he saw his guild member coming up to him. hearing that everyone should be coming back soon just had him puffing air softly. “and to think that i’d get a moments peace.” he mutters. he enjoyed level fifty-one. it was his home. it was quiet barely anyone came up here, unless they were here to hunt or fish, but that was only a few people. now everyone was camping out here because of the dungeon. he couldn’t wait until they passed this level, couldn’t wait until they carried onto the next level, because then he would find himself at peace once more. his eyes looked to noir, as she rubbed at his face, hands then rubbed on his pants he was wearing. “all of them still having some fun down on level one?” he’d been down there, picked up a few things for nyx and then headed back to see her. but he didn’t linger, there was really nothing down there for him.

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userluna‌

“Anyone,” she agreed. “So long as you think they’d put up a good fight.” Adora was Luna’s first thought, but she was a warrior and what she really need was a good rogue. But maybe that was too expected. She’d need to be careful about who she chose, but so long as they could find their way around Erebus she didn’t care if it was a damn Circus member. “Sounds good. After nightfall is probably best. We meet an hour later to determine the winner. On a day when neither of us are on shift. What’s your schedule look like this week?” 

so long as you think they’d put up a good fight. erebus knew out of the two picks he would choose they’d put up a good fight. he wasn’t underestimating luna, he never did that. he never underestimated anyone. it was how he always knew in which ways to approach people. that was his job before he got trapped in this game. he was good at that, at making sure he approached them thinking they could out play him. he knew the two girls he was thinking of would do the same, they weren’t stupid. “i’m all freed up this week, what about you?” he didn’t go into this thinking it would be easy the game might be childish, something he had never played before, but he’d always bring his A game.

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slightlynyx‌

lumos skid himself into the garage and headed right for knox where the two canines collided on the massive pillow they slept on. they used to sleep on it more than they did these days, and that made her frown a little. her eyes still went back quickly to rye and she shook her head gently letting him in so she could pull the door closed behind him and sealed off the breeze from outside. “i didn’t think you weren’t.” she didn’t think about erebus with these things at all. it seemed a random thing for her to think about but she didn’t want him knocking himself either for no reason. the coffee cup was brought to her lips and she felt the hot liquid on her tongue, black, so he was good at more than he thought he was. she felt the closeness of him kissing her cheek and being that they worked side by side now, it wasn’t a jarring or unnatural feeling and wouldn’t be with him anyways. “had to ask.” she mutters, giving him a small smile but ultimately she let him get himself comfortable here. “it’s pretty bad out there so i wasn’t about to be anywhere but here.” she tells him, moving back to the couch to set the coffee cup down on the table, her eyes looking to him and with her hands free she moved closer to him again. all she needed was to set the cup down and he’d know he could set things down too. “do you want me to order food? did you eat?” it was a basic attempt at talking to him and she ended up just shaking her head and closing the space to actually slowly wrap her arms around him and hug him, a familiar sort of way that felt warmer than she remembered.

his eyes followed hers to the two pups that were now on their pillow that they always used to share. it made him realize that he didn’t only put space between nyx and himself, but he put them between the two pups as well. something that he would eventually change because he wasn’t about to hide from her anymore. he heard her words and his eyes looked back to her, something about them pulled something in his chest and he just nodded his head, before taking a sip of his coffee. “new things i’m trying out. how’s it looking so far?” he asks, a gentle smile playing on his face, watching her bring the coffee to her lips, knowing her type of coffee and how she liked it, it just had him smiling even more, before he was chuckling hearing her words. he nodded his head at her next ones though, moving inside a little more, putting his coffee mug down on the table where hers sat, and his eyes looked to her once more. “its pretty insane out there, yeah. lot of love people have, even the npcs are hooking up.” he tells her, smiling still, before he nodded his head at her first question and then shook it, knowing they were trying and that was enough for him. “i could eat though. fancy some chinese?” he asks, before she was moving back to him and wrapped her arms around him. his didn’t even hesitate and he wrapped his own around her, bringing her in closer, and kissing her curls as he breathed her in. he missed her, he did. and he knew she could see that, because he could feel that. he wasn’t going to be some stranger to her, he wasn’t going to be someone that just came over every now and again, or someone that did small talk. that wasn’t them. they were better than that. or they were. “was thinking about staying over here, for a couple of nights. if that’s good for you too. you know, let the pups get used to each other again and what not.” he says, though it wasn’t just for the pups. he missed her like he thought before. and he didn’t want to go back to his cabin in the woods any time soon.