[It's seeing you Picky, and how you've grown, that he realizes a lot of things.
The first is just how surreal it is to see you. For you it was a year. For him, it was centuries. And in a weird way you were so cemented as just a memory at this point that it was hard to remember being near you before, or what it was like to have been such. It's like he's dreaming, or walking through one, and he's expecting to wake up any moment.
The other is the fact that time has passed. He's been gone a year and you've been...you've been left alone to deal with their parents. And he just wants to throw his pride away and ask you. Have you been alright? What's going on? Have you been eating properly, have you been getting bullied, are you doing okay for yourself and with school and not slacking off so you can actually get out of that house when you're old enough and can go somewhere in life?
But he pushes it down, as always. He just gives a very small, quick smile that comes and fades quickly before trying to come in.]
Yeah, yeah I'm here. It's just friggin' wonderful.
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The first is just how surreal it is to see you. For you it was a year. For him, it was centuries. And in a weird way you were so cemented as just a memory at this point that it was hard to remember being near you before, or what it was like to have been such. It's like he's dreaming, or walking through one, and he's expecting to wake up any moment.
The other is the fact that time has passed. He's been gone a year and you've been...you've been left alone to deal with their parents. And he just wants to throw his pride away and ask you. Have you been alright? What's going on? Have you been eating properly, have you been getting bullied, are you doing okay for yourself and with school and not slacking off so you can actually get out of that house when you're old enough and can go somewhere in life?
But he pushes it down, as always. He just gives a very small, quick smile that comes and fades quickly before trying to come in.]
Yeah, yeah I'm here. It's just friggin' wonderful.
....Are you...okay?