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[dreambubbly]

Action: 5719 Cunningham Lane[Feferi's sitting on her front porch after school. She's been trying to be her usual cheerful, upbeat self, but it's been hard. The bomb and its aftereffects took a lot out of her. It's been good to know her friends are all right, those she's heard from. It hasn't been everyone, but that's okay. She really believes the

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[tenebrousking]

[Groceries. A pain, but someone had to get them. Which was why Grimsley is followed by a giant scorpion carrying one grocery bag in each of its many claws. He'll salute at Feferi in a laconic fashion as he approaches.]

Home from school already?

[dreambubbly]

I wasn't feeling so hot, so I asked to come home early.

[She smiles - she's getting used to seeing Pokemon around.]

Hello to you too.

[tenebrousking]

[Drapion hisses something unintelligible in a guttural tone; Grimsley will pat it on the head and return it to its ball after collecting the bags.]

Not feeling so hot? It is December, after all. ...I expect we'll be getting snowfall soon.

[ha... ha.]

[dreambubbly]

Snow? Like...real snow? I've never seen snow...

But no, it's more that I'm just not sleeping well. I reely hope I haven't woken you up with the nightmares.

[hintcoinplz]

[Luke walks by on his way home to see Feferi on the porch.]

Feferi?

[dreambubbly]

Hey, Luke...are you holding up all right?

[hintcoinplz]

I'm doing a lot better now. How about yourself? Are you doing all right?

[dreambubbly]

I'm trying? It's been a rough few days, though. A lot of nightmares.

[misterwwizard]

[Eridan was really concerned how she was holding up after everything had happened...and to possibly apologize for having her do what she did, as much as he felt what she did needed to be done. He gives her the largest hug he can possibly give, trying as hard as he can to smile. It wasn't that hard, really, seeing her alive and well made his heart soar.]

Fef...how you holdin' up?

[dreambubbly]

[Feferi just lets Eridan hold her, and when she does, the tears start. She winds up crying into his shoulder and clinging. She doesn't try to put up a mask; she hasn't been herself and every time she hits the pillow, she winds up screaming.]

I...I'm not good.

[misterwwizard]

[Eridan holds her tightly in his arms...offering a very amateurish papshoosh. He's never been one to give them...]

I'm... I'm sorry, Fef...

[dreambubbly]

I just -- every time I close my eyes I see those things surrounding us or I see...I see you, screaming for me to kill you, screaming because I've killed you. I don't know how to stop it. I'm scared, Eridan.

[dreambubbly]

[She manages a bitter laugh.]

Given this place I'd just come back to life the next day.

[dreambubbly]

One way to look at it. The other way is that they decide I'm too skinny to make a good dinner. [Another one of those laughs.]

...well, mercy-killing someone I care about and then dying are two things that are never fun.