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    Sojaveña Wilds Dusty Highway

    A luxray arrived. Hopefully helpful. Not that I deserve -- no, that kind of thinking was pointless. "Uh..." Andre began. "Both." He sighed. "I had kind of a freakout and wanted to get away from town. Maybe never come back. But I wanna go back now. I have to make things right." Or just see if I...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Dusty Highway

    Hunger came first. Then thirst. Then fatigue. Then, with the setting of the sun, the chill. As each arrived and strengthened its hold, pitiful thoughts bubbled up in Andre's mind. This is stupid, he thought. This is an overreaction. I don't need to die. Not slowly nor quickly, not that the...
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    Sojaveña Wilds Dusty Highway
    Threadmarks: Ch09 - Exile (Andre)

    Once Andre had begun to run, he kept going until he'd made it well out of town. Lungs stinging and the ever-growing cold of Shadows under his skin, he finally stopped to catch his breath. He knew he couldn't bear to be near anyone right now. Not when he knew now what he was. What he had been...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Andre froze. There it was. She'd found the weak spot. The same weak spot Nova had found. Andre hadn't even realized that he'd backslid into his old ways with the arrival of Ben, forgetting all his doubts, so certain of his righteousness again. When all he did was work on his fucking stupid...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Moron? Just an insult. It didn't affect Andre. Arrogant? Andre had been raised by a rich family with an ego, and it had taken him until puberty to realize there was no pride in inherited wealth. He still caught himself sometimes lapsing into old thought patterns, but he always corrected...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Andre was about to tell Laura that regretting a choice did not equal feeling bad about its consequences, but the cat dismissed his correction even before he'd said it. Whatever. That was a lot. But Laura had it wrong if she thought he'd never considered these things himself. Andre frowned...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Did she think the physical sensation of the slap was what had gotten him so down? She really had a low opinion of him. Andre sighed. Well, this was happening. He was probably going to get an ass-beating from Laura now. And he didn't want to look some kind of pussy backing down from that. And...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    The one-two punch was a metaphorical one followed by a literal one. The force of the strike knocked Andre off his seat and left a stinging ache on his cheek. Even still, the ache in his heart quickly overshadowed it. She's that disgusted? She hates me that much for what I did? Andre climbed...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    People kept saying this. That he wouldn't be lynched for what he did were he to come clean. Could they really mean it? Even through the clouds of panic obscuring his mind, Andre was offended. "Of course I do. I'm thankful to live in a world that has those things. What I think is naive is...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Andre frowned. The lynch mob was what would happen if he fessed up. But he couldn't say that, could he? He was trying to pretend like what he did was somehow palatable if just explained properly. It wasn't - not to the average person. But the average person had been convinced by state propaganda...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    It was true. Had Andre never tried to comfort Ben after Mike's disappearance, had Andre never given Ben his home address - Gods, what a stupid fucking thing to do, he could never berate himself enough for it - this never would have happened. Perhaps whatever source that leaked it to Ben that...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    For a second there, Laura looked like she might believe him, but then... Actually, it would be a raincoat. I'm cleanly like that. She promised no consequences - none of the legal sort, at least. It reminded Andre of someone... If two different people said it without knowledge of each other...
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    Frontier Town Traveller's Haus - Dining Hall

    Ben had to try his best to mask how these words made him feel - sickened. No. Another trainer is not going to fix things. Mike can't be replaced. "Ah, sure. I'll leave you to it. Thanks for the talk," Ben said. Save for that last part. He gave a wave with his free paw and headed off with his...
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    Frontier Town Traveller's Haus - Dining Hall

    "Oh, yes," Ben said, a small smile forming on his face. "I'd briefly been with other trainers before Mike, and those were alright and all, but Mike was the first one who really believed in me. That I wasn't just a small-time bear, but a superstar, and we were gonna take the world by storm. He...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Oh. Fuck. Andre had always considered himself a good liar. He'd gotten away with just about every lie he'd ever told, after all. But now he was starting to wonder if that was only because all the people he'd lied to either already trusted him or were drunk. Well, there was the police. But how...
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    Frontier Town Traveller's Haus - Dining Hall

    That was the case on Forlas? Actually, yes, Ben supposed that made sense. "Er, well... yes," Ben said. "Humans tend to have the best... what's the term? Quality of life. From what I've seen of mon-only settlements, they don't tend to be, ah... very..." Ben didn't want to be rude about it...
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    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Had Laura just flinched? Did she think he was going to... do something? What's the matter? You're familiar with looks of terror, aren't you? Andre shook the thought. Surely Laura had just been startled by his sudden appearance. "Well... really, I'm hoping I don't have a problem," Andre said...
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    Frontier Town Traveller's Haus - Dining Hall

    Ben was a bit confused before he thought things through more properly. "Oh, sorry, I think I assumed your world worked more similarly to mine than it did. When I say sapient and feral, I mean smart and not-smart. Like, sapients know how to talk, whether it's in a mon language or a human...
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    Frontier Town Traveller's Haus - Dining Hall

    She didn't need to think that hard. I would have been okay with just 'teenager', Ben thought. "Fifteen," Ben repeated. "Yes, that is pretty young for a human to be doing something like that." Humans that age were often heroes in the books he read for school as a teen himself, but those were...
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    Frontier Town Traveller's Haus - Dining Hall

    "Oh, how old is she, then?" Ben asked.
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