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[Hope's life has certainly been thrown into turmoil over the past few weeks, and there's certainly more to come. Now that Lightning's returned, and seems to have gathered her strength... he admittedly can't take his mind off his own problems at hand. He saw her brand-but what's to become of his
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[He gives off a whine and paws pathetically at the screen, which does nothing except give a great close-up of the little pads underneath.]
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Don't panic, okay? Everything will be all right.
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[Okay, so that might be a little melodramatic. But he's a DOG. And he has no OPPOSABLE THUMBS. And there's white fur all over his bed!]
Why did this have to happen to me?
[He turns his head then, and a scratching can be heard at his door... followed by an excited bark. Yup, Baldr can smell his buddy through the door, and he's absolutely thrilled that they can now play on the same level.
Hope, however, is not.]
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Now the small black pig was just roaming around. Lost of course.
Ryoga had noticed the increase in animals and creatures. What was this? Was it one of those experiments? Either way he walked his way over to the white pup unintentionally. Hope was graced with a blank stare.]
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He'd never seen a pig before, so he wasn't sure what to make of this. Suddenly seized by an urge to sniff at it to determine what it is, the youth does exactly that, leaning forward and poking his nose against the small black... thing.]
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Why are there so many animals? There weren't this many before.]
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Hey, come back! ...what are you, anyway?
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It's silly, but that odd adolescent sense of having something weird about him being noticed by, well, everyone around him creeps in. He's not used to the fact that he more than likely just looks like a regular dog to anyone who passes back. Wet black nose twitching as he huffs out a breath, Hope lays his head down woefully on his paws again.]
... what.
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Sorry, I just haven't seen you around before.
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...hi.
[His "arms" feel stiff. He can't raise it very high. How awkward. He gives up trying to shake hands with hir and lets his foreleg fall again.]
I'm not normally like this. That's why.
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He can smell her fear, can't he?! ]
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Instantly his own worries come rushing back, because he hadn't seen anyone react to his presence with fear since arriving to this place-but back on Cocoon, with the others who had been cursed...
Did she know? How could she know?]
Wait! I'm not...
[He glances at his wrist... which is covered by fluffy, downy puppyfur and sporting a chubby little paw at the end. Oh. Right.
She must be afraid of dogs. But he didn't think he looked all that menacing...
Hope stands up, tail wagging (for some inexplicable reason, the urge to do so just comes to him unbidden!), ready to say something reassuring.]
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Oh. Oh no, don't stand up. That causes her to take a step back.
But she can't show how afraid she is, and she can't show him she's panicking. So she tries her best to look calm, and she looks him in the eyes. ]
S-Sit back down, please.
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[He does as directed-sort of. He really only lets his butt fall against the grass again, tail still thumping away, both of his legs straight and standing at the front.]
How's this?
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... And apparently thrown off just enough that last night she crashed on the couch instead of making it to bed. Like that, she doesn't get the chance to hear the teen's journal message-- but what she does hear, however, is what sounds an awful lot like a bark from elsewhere in the apartment.
She jerks awake. Normally, that wouldn't be so odd, but... she looks- Baldr is at her feet, still dead-asleep. Alarms go off immediately; it could have just been her imagination, but something seems off and she's definitely one to always follow her instincts. She slides to her feet and goes to investigate, calling out just as she makes it to his bedroom door: ]
Hope?
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The first thing he'd tried to do before even opening the journal was to get his bedroom door open. A rather impossible feat when you don't have any opposable thumbs.]
Light! Help!
[In an animalistic act of desperation, he leaps up on his hind legs, weight thrown against the door... and gnaws pathetically on the doorknob, trying to twist it open. It only jiggles pathetically.
More whines.]
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[ Come again, Hope? Did your neck scarf get stuck in a zipper again or something? Okay yeah, at that, Lightning's heart skips a beat- there is no time for thought, no hesitation at all in moving to yank the door open--
Except... there's... no Hope here?! She just barely registers the presence of the white puppy, far more concerned with the fact that Hope isn't in here where is he?! ]
Hope?!
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It's the dog, Light. It's the dog.]
I woke up like this. I don't know what's happening.
[Really, what else is this place going to throw at him? At them? Woefully, the boy lays his head down on his paws, still gazing up at his comrade pathetically.]
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