DTLS Archive
Boyd hugged his knees close. “I don’t want to stay away from people,” he said. “I like people, especially my friends! But…I’m scared.“
“Of course you are.” Ozma tapped his beak thoughtfully, and then gestured outward- past the school grounds and into the city beyond. “Look out there, young man. You see that city? Every single person in that city has hurt people. Some small hurts, immediately forgotten, lost to the minutiae of life. Other hurts larger, hurts that will scar and maim.” A sigh, a frown. “And some hurts that will never heal in all the lifetimes of humanity.”
He fell silent at that, and his frown deepened, and for just that breath of time he was a very old rooster indeed-
-and then just as quickly it passed and he gave Boyd a bright smile. “But that is the price we pay for our humanity. We are not meant to be alone.”
When Gyro decides he doesn't want to take a delivery to a lab in the next city over, he asks Boyd to do it instead. It's meant to be a quick errand, but a robot boy in a robotics lab is like catnip to the people there, and Boyd quickly begins building friendships left and right- and inadvertently thrusts himself and the rest of the extended Duck family into their biggest adventure yet as they begin mingling with their new friends in the Cities.
DTLS is now archived up to its most recent complete volume! Moving forward I intend to archive previous volume and interstitial + side threads whenever a new volume begins, in order to better stay on top of things.
If you need an accessible mirror created with a different format or font let me know. If it's within the limits of my capabilities I don't mind tossing one up.
If you're confused by the text-thread color coding there's a guide at the bottom of the file.
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