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[ecks]

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[ecks]

[There's a delay, but that could be her going over it in her head as much as her schooling herself on how to write the same way she normally writes.]

I tell Doctor House that I am going to trade with you
I come to you and you trade me two fake animals for four arm lengths of clear string
I do not use the network again for two days so that people will think that I am dead

[devoutish]

We'll see if he learns his lesson.

[ecks]

[There's a too-long delay as she battles with herself over how to reply. She must not use anyone else's words because he recognizes it when she does.]

yes.

[Harder than it looks from that one word.]

I will speak with you again when we meet to trade

[ecks]

[She remembers petting Davesprite. She liked petting Davesprite's wing -- it was soft like a fake animal.]

Yes? Yes. But will he bite me?

[awwnoun]

Nope. Lucky doesn't bite. [ Lucky's tail thumps against the floor as he wags it, watching Ecks. ]

Go for it. He might lick you, though. He really likes to be gently scratched behind his ears.

[ecks]

I do not know when I will go that far west again

[ecks]

I think it was a good choice also, but I don't know if I would have stayed away if I had not come here. I am bad at continuing to make choices.

[For instance: she's bad at not killing people, and bad at not stealing.]

[ecks]

he taught me about electricity
and about radiation
and about comebacks

[ecks]

I have never met an animal that wouldn't bite if it could bite.

[She's never met an animal that wasn't terrified out of its mind. Tentatively, she reaches forward to run her fingers along the top of Lucky's head.]

[advanced]

None of those are a good enough reason for liking someone.

[awwnoun]

Well, now you have.

[ Lucky lets her, and then noses at her hand to lick it. Clint scoots a little closer. ]

It's all good. He's just licking. Dogs do that.

[nursetemple]

So what do you think you will do once we go home?

[ecks]

I think I will still try to find another way to live. I think it will be very difficult and I may or may not survive alone because surviving is harder than I thought it would be and I will not have friends or places to get food.

I will try to go to someone else's home. In my friend Frisk's world there are many kinds of monsters that are people, and I could pretend to be a normal monster.

[ecks]

I visit the convenience store very often now
I am always on the east side of the town

[ecks]

[She freezes when she thinks the dog is going to put his mouth around her hand -- but he doesn't. She isn't sure she likes the result all the same, and shifts her hand around to scratch behind his ear so he can't reach it with his tongue.]

Why? I do not think that I would taste very good. I do not wash very often.

cw body horror

[ecks]

he is like someone that I knew before
but without the very bad parts
Doctor House is like him except Doctor House does not cut me open
and I liked all of the parts except being cut open

[awwnoun]

He's not doing it because you taste good. [ Clint laughs. Lucky makes a little grrruff sound and leans into the scratching happily. ]

Dogs lick people when they like them or when they're happy. I don't know why? I guess because he can't tell you that he likes you with words.

[nursetemple]

Why would you not have friends back home? You have friends here, after all.

But what matters, I think, is for you to find a place that makes you happy. If that Frisk's world, then we'll try and get you there, okay?

[advanced]

[Okay, that concerns him deeply.]

You mean the person who made you, and forced you to kill?

[ecks]

define 'forced'
also Doctor House does not do the part where I have to kill people
that was also not a good part

[ecks]

The world is a dangerous place.

[That's all she's going to say about that.]

Frisk's world or another world where I have a friend, but Frisk's world has the monsters.

[ecks]

It's communication.

[That makes sense. It seems like inexact and messy communication, but Ecks has always been adaptable when it comes to learning the languages of the creatures around her.

Cautiously, she leans down to lick Lucky on the face.]

[ecks]

I will