#condesce;

You feel utterly terrible. Of course, you’d come online expecting as much, but really, how could you prepare yourself for this wave of worthlessness? You try to disguise it as anger, but it’s absolute betrayal that sparks in your chest, bringing back memories of the last time you’d placed your trust in an Ampora. 

You can’t believe you’d been so naive.

You close your husktop and leave your chambers in a storm of upset, long hair thrashing through the air as you turn on your heel mid-storm to start off in a different direction. No, you couldn’t go to anyone for this. No troll, at least. You couldn’t show this kind of weakness when you already had been shattered by someone you trusted this evening. So you head towards the only safe place you know that’s left- one you’re technically not even supposed to visit.

The nursery.

You approach the door slowly, taking a breath to compose yourself before opening it and slowly stepping inside. You look around to be sure no one would see you, before slinking over to that one corner of the room, where you knew she’d be hiding.

“Eep!”

You can’t help the tiny smile that crosses your features when the little fuchsia wriggler squeaks up at you. Everything you’d taught yourself before now had told you to kill this little creature, but... You couldn’t. You’d never be able to. You reach down to gently pick her up, dangling your finger in front of her face playfully.