Then you and your reptilian charge will be doubly better off without my involvement.
[If he weren't holding the phone he'd be crossing his arms, in demonstrable protest. It would be invisible anyway, given that this is all text, but the aura is there in his reply. Compassion and care... if this egg truly could read his mood, then it should be kept far away from him and his apathy and depression both.
He does briefly consider absconding. Putting off the inevitable. But that would take removing himself from the couch he was sprawled onto. Emet-Selch looks around, but no spur of energy was in sight. Exhaling heavily, he sinks back into the cushions, head resting against the arm of the couch. Slowly types his reply.]
I should take you apart one of these days. Perhaps something in there has merely shaken loose.
[Not that he thought anything was broken, or that he could restore any of those missing features given the lack of parts available on this world, and his inability to create anything.
But he missed that warming ability too, small as it was in the scheme of things.]
I dread finding out where you're planning to place it. But not so much to leave. Yes, I'm around. Not far from where you left me this morning.
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[If he weren't holding the phone he'd be crossing his arms, in demonstrable protest. It would be invisible anyway, given that this is all text, but the aura is there in his reply. Compassion and care... if this egg truly could read his mood, then it should be kept far away from him and his apathy and depression both.
He does briefly consider absconding. Putting off the inevitable. But that would take removing himself from the couch he was sprawled onto. Emet-Selch looks around, but no spur of energy was in sight. Exhaling heavily, he sinks back into the cushions, head resting against the arm of the couch. Slowly types his reply.]
I should take you apart one of these days. Perhaps something in there has merely shaken loose.
[Not that he thought anything was broken, or that he could restore any of those missing features given the lack of parts available on this world, and his inability to create anything.
But he missed that warming ability too, small as it was in the scheme of things.]
I dread finding out where you're planning to place it. But not so much to leave. Yes, I'm around. Not far from where you left me this morning.