You strayed into my home and into my heart

[memeboogeyman]

S T R A Y Taking in strays is, all in all, an understandable vice. The dips in between their ribs, those large and forlorn eyes, they can help you forget the claws and the teeth and the danger lurking beneath fur. But the habit's a knife edge; your efforts may not be rewarded with kindness (animal instincts aren't discretionary) and you may get bit despite what you've overlooked. A stray doesn't care about pity. All it can know is survival. These warnings apply to strays of the more human(oid) sort, too. But what may even more perilous with this type than any drawn blood is what you can get when they grow to trust you. You can earn their undying loyalty...or their love. Either from such a wild thing is a precarious path to go down, if you allow yourself to do it. Comment with your character, preferences, desired roles, etc. Reply to others. Thread!

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sorry for the wait, work week has got me like... what day is it again?

[fivemetaldragons]

"Perhaps it could be in time."

Julie doesn't sound particularly hopeful. She doesn't know where the surviving children have been taken or how they are now being treated. She's sure that that's information they wouldn't dream of giving her. Not after she had reacted so negatively to the results of the experiment. She closes her eyes for a moment, centering herself, before returning her attention to her guest.

"I apologize. You don't want to know about any of this."

She could have even inadvertently put Charley in danger by telling her so much. She eyes the young woman across from her thoughtfully.

"Do you have some place to stay?"

No, no, she really doesn't buy Charley's story.

[conspiraciiiiiiiiiiiiies]

"I didn't hear a thing," Charley assures her. Ariana. She is Ariana right now, she has to be.

...Just that Ariana would never have found herself in this kind of predicament. Julie is lucky. This isn't Ariana. Ariana would probably have reported back about the Woman in White's words.

Charley, for obvious reasons, wouldn't.

Their answers to the next question differ as well. "Technically, yeah, but I'm not really in the mood to go back there right now. Had a big fight with the roommate." Well. Someone sure had a fight with the 'roommate'.