singillatim | August catch-all

“Yeah, I think a lot of them are underground for winter or something.”

Do not take her word for this.

There were lots of bugs in the ground so, "That makes sense. Maybe they hibernate like bears or something."

“The bears here aren't hibernating, though.” Weird that bugs still would, though she shouldn't look a gift not constantly being attacked by bugs in the mouth.

"Yeah...but things are weird here. The wolves glow sometimes and are way more aggressive than they should be. Um, except for the ones who are people."

“We still do that sometimes - I changed during an aurora a while back and tore apart half my house.” No idea if she’d been glowing, though.

"Shit, really?" Pause. "Was it the full moon? Or just the aurora?" Books it was the full moon, but here has not matched the expectations fiction has given to him.

“I’m not sure. I didn't go outside, and when I came to it wasn't dark anymore.” She pretty much never pays attention to the moon now that she's a wolf and can see better at night. Bad idea, maybe.

"Huh. The aurora does enough weird stuff that we should be careful during it anyway. Glad you stayed inside."

“I don't trust that woman as far as I can throw her, and she never lets us get close to her.” Yes, Chloe likes her new abilities but that doesn't mean that she has to trust the source.

"Enola? Me either. She's a god or something with powers like that I guarantee we're just useful tools for her right now. That'll probably change sometimes." Gods suck.

“Exactly. I don't know how, but I think she brought us here.” She doesn't think the woman is a god but with these kind of powers that's basically just semantics.

"More likely her than the Darkwalker. But I wouldn't be surprised if there were more powers in play. I wish they'd all leave us alone."

“Right? I think only a few people would have come here if given the choice, and they were dying anyway so I can't really blame them for that

"Its nicer than where some of us were for sure, but I wouldn't have picked 'frozen wasteland' as my new home if I'd been given the choice."

"Where would you like to go, you think?" Maybe it's safer to ask questions of her own.

"...I dunno. Somewhere warmer with reliable electricity, at least. Maybe a fancier place, but if I stayed in a resort or something for more than like a day or two I'd start to feel awkward and out of place. Wh--" Nope. He cuts himself off before asking where she'd go. He promised no questions even if he's not sure how this could lead to her saying too much.

Chloe shrugs. “I’d just want to go home. Never thought I'd be so attached to it, but I am.”

"Yeah, that's probably what most people would say."

“I always wanted to get away when I was there, but now I think about my friends back there pretty often.”

"Mine is...there's not really anything left there. For me or anyone."

A lot of people seem to have come here from way worse circumstances than her.

“Sorry, kid.”

He shrugs, "It's fine. My world seems to have issues compared to a lot of other ones. Not that it really matters here.

"Though I guess if you're asking where I'd go if I had the choice, it wouldn't be back there." Maybe one of those worlds where kids can't be drafted.

“Maybe you could stay here. Just go to a nicer country.” Unless this whole world is like this now.

"Assuming the rest of the world isn't also some sort of hell hole that'd work."

“Yeah, I'm kind of hoping it's localized to just the island.” Who knows, though?

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i tried to think on this and then realize levi doesnt know anyway

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cw: kids sent to war

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