[ She feels so helpless, crying like this, like a little grub all over again, back when she'd caught her leg in a cruel trap for animals and thought I'm going to die, either they're going to kill me or Mom will when I drag myself back
and then there had been this kid, not daring to touch her, but telling her to stay calm and breathe. He'd moved like she was something precious he was terrified of hurting, and he'd pried the trap open and pulverized it into little metal bits. And wonder of wonders, he had bandaged her up and carried her back, fed her anything he had until she could limp back home, and she'd left without a word once she could. She should have brought him with her, brought him back to Mom and her voracious appetite, but. A life for a life. She'd found something else to appease her lusus.
He's always been like that. Caring, even if he doesn't get anything for it. She can't stand it and she clings to it. Clings to him, snuffling and trying to breathe like they're three or four sweeps all over again. ]
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and then there had been this kid, not daring to touch her, but telling her to stay calm and breathe. He'd moved like she was something precious he was terrified of hurting, and he'd pried the trap open and pulverized it into little metal bits. And wonder of wonders, he had bandaged her up and carried her back, fed her anything he had until she could limp back home, and she'd left without a word once she could. She should have brought him with her, brought him back to Mom and her voracious appetite, but. A life for a life. She'd found something else to appease her lusus.
He's always been like that. Caring, even if he doesn't get anything for it. She can't stand it and she clings to it. Clings to him, snuffling and trying to breathe like they're three or four sweeps all over again. ]