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  1. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa took a second to cool her head. If she learned one thing from this, it would be to think through anything Starr said before pouncing at her. "I don't get that," she said, when she'd recovered herself. "I don't see why I'd go tellin' everybody somethin' like that. The Bluff... that was...
  2. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    "Get on with the team? Are you kiddin'?" Brisa laughed again, a wild high edge to it this time. "Did I not mention that Curio called me half the things Jesse used to? She doesn't want me. She knows what I am. And it's not just her. I fucked things up with you soon as meet you, over fuckin'...
  3. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa nodded and listened, rapt despite how little any of this meant to her. "I'd love to travel," she said, without thinking. "I mean, I wander a lot, but only for my patrols." Starr seemed amenable enough to listening, so she continued. "I said I beat the shit outta bandits. That's part of...
  4. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa nodded, knowing better than to push. She wouldn't like that either. This was the first time she'd told anyone this much about Jesse, and it had run her ragged. Starr's father sounded so much the opposite, giving out praise instead of recriminations, but... wasn't that just another way of...
  5. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa laughed again, and more tension left her. There was a wild thrill in hearing someone talk down 'Delphox Jesse Stranger, world-saving hero.' As she laughed, her fur surged and lit up the room further, along with Starr. She did her best to return the awkward smile with one of her own. "I...
  6. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa couldn't help but laugh, again. Something about Starr's willingness to take shots at Jesse was... incredibly cathartic. "Y'know, ya got a point there!" she said, between slightly-painful laughs. "I actually thought he mighta been makin' it all up, that he was just lunatic or lyin', until...
  7. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    "Uh, yeah... people have been saying stuff like that. It's weird for me, y'know? You grow up with somethin', it seems normal. Even... even the stuff that guy did." Brisa shuddered. It was cold. She felt like she was laying part of her mind bare. It unsettled her to think of... of Jesse, her...
  8. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa took a second to process what Starr had just said. Then she laughed. It sounded weird to her own ears... how long had it been? "Gods. Yeah. Thanks." Another breath. "Yeah, we have actual ferals too. 'Feral' is just also somethin' folks call sapient mon like my ma who don't wanna...
  9. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Starr shrugged off her injuries and the animosity Brisa had shown her as if it was nothing. Brisa knew it hadn't been nothing, but her expressed remorse seemed to pass by, scarcely remarked on. Why? If Brisa were in that position, being told such things by someone who'd hurt her... hated her...
  10. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Oh, gods. Maybe it was best not to pry. Whatever it was that Starr was remembering, it sounded like a truly hideous emotional wound. Brisa had no right to make Starr explain, nor did she know how to give comfort over something like this. Or even if she should—they weren't friends. All the same...
  11. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    "You still don't understand the first thing about me, either," said Brisa, gently. "That's okay. I think I'm beginnin' to get why." Brisa's face was still a mess and Starr was working up to the same. It was dark. It was cold. The situation was close to hopeless. Brisa could do nothing about...
  12. unrepentantAuthor

    Blacklight ~ Art & Doodles

    This took forever. Worth it.
  13. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa maintained eye contact. Everything inside her had shifted. There was anguish in Starr's voice as she spoke of the thing which she had done, the thing which did not sound real, but must be, must be. For Starr to have told her this... the turmoil in her heart must be unimaginable. Brisa's...
  14. unrepentantAuthor

    [Destroyed] Air Continent ~ Silver Trench

    The fight. They'd won the fight. Right? She was beyond disoriented. For all she knew, the world could be coming to an end. What was happening to her?
  15. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa's eyes widened. She knew that tone. This wasn't a hypothetical piece of rhetoric, neither was it an implicit threat, this was about something real. 'On purpose.' Deliberate. Not a mistake. "Oh," she said, her voice as soft as it had ever been. "I get it, now." She returned Starr's...
  16. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    "Yeah. I'm a pokémon." Brisa pulled herself together as best she could. It wasn't much, but at least she could talk without choking on her words. She wiped her face a little drier with her paws—not that it mattered, in the dark. "What, you think I'm just like Owen, that I just battle hard? No...
  17. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    "Accidents? You think that's all that's on my mind? An accident?" Brisa wrestled down a sob. "Is it an accident if you know you're dangerous? If you don't keep yourself in check? I should fuckin' know better. This isn't the first time I've gone too far in a fight. It isn't the first time I've...
  18. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa gawped at the litten. "You're still sayin' that? When you said that back at the dojo about me fuckin' losin' control and hurtin' Curio, I didn't get it. Then I start a fuckin' fight with you and do you a dozen kinds of injury, and you're still sayin' that? What the fuck is your criterion...
  19. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa didn't react at first. When she did speak, it was uncharacteristically gentle. "I'm sorry you had to be here at all, Starr," she said. Starr gave her an incredulous look, and she shrugged. "I'm glad it's you down here with me, though. You're tougher than most of the posse. You might have...
  20. unrepentantAuthor

    Reverse World ~ Rockfall Cavern

    Brisa looked up from yet another vivid recollection of the fight to see Starr in front of her, mad as hell. She kept eye contact. Her stomach twisted. "Of course I care," she said, with bite in her words. "You still don't have the first idea what's goin' through my skull right now, huh." She...
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