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[contempsi]

[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?

His days, too, are numbered.

After a slumber fraught with nightmares, the boy awakens to find a more urgent, pressing problem at hand.]



[Somehow, by the grace of whatever deity is over this place, he finally manages to open the journal by his bed and paw his way into a video broadcast.

The screen is filled with a fluffy white puppy face.]

RUFF!

Um... w-what's going on!? Am I dreaming!?? Someone help! Lightning? Aerith?!

[Later on that day, he can be found sulking outdoors in the grass by the pathway that separates Community House #4 from the other residential homes, head on his curly fluffy paws.

He can, in fact, be understood if anyone attempts to converse with him. Translations are in italics.]

Comments

Are italics translated?

[gardenerofgaia.livejournal.com]

Aww! [ She seems to... not... immediately notice the distress here. 8|a ]

[Action]

[lost-pig-boy.livejournal.com]

[kissdiet.livejournal.com]

[Oh, this is one of those things Lightning had the other day-! A puppy. Cam makes note of it outside of hir building (C4) and... huh. What is it doing? This doesn't seem to be Baldr.]

[action]

[fideliter.livejournal.com]

[ Ange is just outside (still unchanged, thankfully), taking a walk when ... she spots puppy!Hope. She stares for a moment, before letting out a small shriek and then promptly covering her mouth, while taking back a step. She was caught off guard by this and ... just so happens to be afraid of dogs.

He can smell her fear, can't he?! ]

[thestormishere]

[ Lightning is usually pretty on top of things when it comes to making sure both she and and Hope are up in the morning in time for breakfast and a relatively decent start on the day, but with everything going on lately, it's safe to say she's been pretty stressed...

... 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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[risingwinds.livejournal.com]

[Ven still feels a bit... odd, to say the least, but he's finally stepped out of the house to get some fresh air.

And, naturally, seeing a cute little puppy piques his curiosity, so he'll scurry on over to see what's up.]