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  1. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa made a mental note to talk to him more about Jean and the others later. Not now. Salt and sand... "Y'ain't the first person t'be unsettled by memory loss an' what it could mean fer our motivations," she said, drumming her claws on the couch. "We wanna believe that what's important to us...
  2. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa nodded. It had stopped being a vague suppressed yearning months ago already. She'd talked about it frankly enough to plenty of Cibus natives, including in interview. So. Sure. "Yeah, the only things tyin' me to my home are my estranged blood family, this golett who I was givin' some aid...
  3. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "Well, like I said, she's scarce these years. Lotta folks ain't got much picture of her at all. But she don't figure into their way of doin' things." Brisa scratched her cheek with one paw. "Somethin' tells me they'd find issue with her the way they do with me."
  4. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa had given up arguing with that sentiment a while ago. Dave wasn't about to start caring about the wellbeing of townie assholes any time soon. Besides, it felt kinda good to hear someone fight her corner, even if it was just with invective into empty air. "Yeah, kinda," she replied...
  5. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa laughed. "Somethin' like that." Wind and weather, he sure did get pissed off whenever something wasn't fair. He and Pa were alike in that way.
  6. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "I guess. Bein' a Legendary ain't like holdin' public office. Zeraora don't get no say in how things are run or whatever. More like emergency services, y'know?" She grinned drily. "Besides, I'm not eligible t'run fer public office back home anyway."
  7. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa shrugged again. "So far as I can tell from all the fuckin' folk tales an' scraps of old journals I could find, Luz could offer the successorship to someone she considered worthy, or someone could approach her with the intent of becomin' an aspirant." She smiled vaguely at something her...
  8. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa sighed, and mvoed on from the topic of Dave's poor kid. It was hard to know how to reassure him about anything, anyway... "Yeah, so the stories say. I heard once that Zeraora Luz has been around a few centuries, and that there were a different zeraora before her. In Cibus it's a matter of...
  9. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa listened, and nodded, and winced in empathy as Dave related the story. When he was done, she dipped her ears and flicked her tail. "Shit, that's just all kinds of dreadful," she said, dumbly. "I'm sorry, too." She paused, thought, swallowed. Another of Dave's kids, a half-human who...
  10. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa shook her head. "I knew y'had kids besides Mia. Nothin' much about 'em, though. Somethin' happen to her...?" She couldn't help but look sympathetic before he'd even said anything. Looking at him hungover and in need of a bath, it was easy to assume everything about his life had gone to...
  11. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    This topic again, with that weird hostility Dave had sometimes about stuff. It was true enough. Nobody else had unleashed a legendary form, as such. Well, there was Celeste, with his rainbow wings so reminiscent of Ho-oh's. Not quite as unsubtle as her own shift, to be fair. She shrugged, and...
  12. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Obvious enough, then. At least to some. Was she being too obvious? Yikes. Brisa grimaced and contemplated just how badly asking someone out could go. She'd read some dramatic enough rejections in her romance pulps. Or there were . . . the couple times she'd ever given someone a love confession...
  13. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "Yeah, she seemed antsy. Figured she needed t'feel like things could be normal, so obviously I got her t'hit the Colo. Been meanin' t'have a more considered conversation, though..." Brisa's ears flattened back and she bowed her head. There'd be no hiding after a reaction like that, oof...
  14. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Yeah, that tracked with everything Starr had ever said. Brisa was good, and her fears of being a danger were unfounded. Starr had actually harmed people, terribly, deliberately, irrevocably. Starr sure believed that. And she wasn't stupid, either, but... She sure did more than just hurt people...
  15. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa nodded, and hated that most of what she felt was relief, that Starr had let on to someone that she'd killed people – you always kinda believed that, huh – and that person had been Dave, and he'd taken it this way. This way, and not . . . worse. "Thanks fer havin' her back," Brisa said...
  16. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "Not in so many words, but I figure she was goddamn young, yeah. Seventeen when Diyem called her, recruited some years before . . . naturally she was a kid at the time." Dave could just be remarking on something he found disturbing or pushing this 'Starr had no choice' angle or something else...
  17. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "You'd be right," said Brisa, nodding slowly. "I've been tellin' her as much since we were trapped in that fuckin' pit t'gether fer a couple days an' nights." She put a paw to one of the sore spots on her other foreleg and winced. It had been a hell of a beating. Worth it, to get Starr through...
  18. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "T'this an' that degree, yeah." Brisa finished the coffee, put a couple drops of lum and persim tincture in it for the hangover, and brought it over to Dave with a frown. "Drink up. And maybe go easy on that shitty beer. Ain't right, havin' you stumble about lookin' three steps from keelin'...
  19. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    "Mm? Yeah." Brisa looked up again, wondered if Dave ought to have someone take him to get fucking medical attention, by thunder. Or at least a coffee and a painkiller. Yeah. Brisa got up and went to sort that out for the mightyena, talking from the kitchenette as she did. "Yeah, she's...
  20. unrepentantAuthor

    Rocky Road ~ House of Brisa, Dave, Koa, and Owen

    Brisa looked up from her spread of notes on the coffee table in the living area and assessed Dave. He looked like shit, he looked drunk, he looked depressed. Pretty normal for him, lately. Wind and weather... "Y'need a paw?" she asked, naked concern bleeding into her voice. Hopefully he'd do...
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