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[colecomfort]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Cole
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Cole has found a pet. It might be someone else's. Or it might be his.
WHEN: Current (Solace 22nd)
WHERE: Sent from a little ways outside Skyhold
NOTES: n/a

There's... a nug out here.

There are lots of nugs out here. Restless rustling in the bushes, foraging for food, tiny ones learning how to run and hide. This one's different.

She's wearing boots. They're bright, and red.

Someone must have made them. Nugs aren't born with boots.

She isn't lost. She doesn't know she's meant to be anywhere else. But someone might be missing her.

Comments

[colecomfort]

Yes. She's been nibbling at the flowers in the forest, but she's not sure what's right to eat.

[demonicbeauty]

I have some bread that I...

[Ahem.]

...borrowed from the kitchen.

[colecomfort]

Are you going to give it back?

[demonicbeauty]

...only if no one wanted it.

[colecomfort]

That doesn't sound like borrowing.

[demonicbeauty]

I know what you're thinking and it isn't stealing.

[colecomfort]

...then what is it?

[No really, he's honestly confused.]

[demonicbeauty]

Doing good.

You see, thieves always have bad intentions. And I never do.

[colecomfort]

That's... not how it works.

Taking something that wasn't offered or asked for is stealing.

[demonicbeauty]

No. Stealing is when you take something for your own benefit.

[She sighs.]

But if it makes you feel better--and if your nug isn't hungry--I can put it back.

[colecomfort]

— no, I — I can find flowers to feed her.

Don't you usually take it for the children? They should have it.

[demonicbeauty]

I usually do.

I just wanted to offer it to your new friend, that's all.

Anyway, some of the parents don't like the way I hang around the kids.

[colecomfort]

You don't have to let them see you.

[CAUSE THAT'S GREAT ADVICE, COLE.]

Except... oh. No. They might see you anyway, and you can't make them forget.

[demonicbeauty]

[She's very good at not being seen, thank you very much. But that's hardly what catches her attention at the moment.]

...no. I can't make them forget.

And even if I could, I probably wouldn't.

[colecomfort]

I used to think I wasn't real if people didn't remember me. But sometimes, it's better that they don't.

[demonicbeauty]

That's not true.

[colecomfort]

It is. But it's all right that it is. People are scared of demons.

[demonicbeauty]

Cole...

If no one remembers that someone did a good deed for them...they lose a little piece of hope that they might have had. Faith in the goodness of the world around them.

And that goes double for...well. For anyone who's a little...different.

[colecomfort]

But they still see things differently. The world is still shifted. It's the shape they don't remember.

[demonicbeauty]

I think the shape is important.

The shape sets an example.

[colecomfort]

I've never tried to set an example. I just want to help.

[demonicbeauty]

The great thing about setting an example is that you really don't have to try at all. You just have to be.

Just keep what you're doing, giving people in need a beautiful thing to call his own. Beautiful things can make sad people happy, and bad people good. When you think about it, beautiful things can change the universe.

[colecomfort]

...okay.

[HE'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE.]

You keep doing beautiful things, too.

[demonicbeauty]

I'll keep trying...