🔥 kate

[ablazement]

shitpost incoming

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[sootprints]

I hope so.

... I'll have to pull myself together if I want to be someone that others can lean on.

[ablazement]

Hah. Hah, little red, you're the most pulled together person here.

[she says, with a wet little laugh.]

Look at me, I'm a mess. You're fine.

[sootprints]

[ looks up like !? ]

... I wonder... I think I just have an advantage when it comes to hiding it.

[ shadow face!! she says like she's not giving off smoke signals every time she's even a little stressed. ]

[ablazement]

Maybe. The smoke's a pretty good indicator.

[gently teasing, here.]

But even so. You can be upset, or you don't have to be. [a beat.] You don't have to be there for people, you're a kid. But if you want to, you're doing just fine.

[sootprints]

[ she's quiet for a bit, just absorbing that, and then sucks in a breath, lifting her head again suddenly. ]

... Last night, Aerith mentioned that she had a strange dream earlier this week... I wonder if it was an omen.

[ablazement]

[there's

a pause, and then:]

I don't think it was. An omen, I mean.

[sootprints]

... You don't?

[ablazement]

No. Just a feeling.

[sootprints]

[ ?? ]

... I wonder what it could be, then...