#sxvethequeen

[caretaker-au]

Truly we were the fools. Happy April Thirst.

[reindeer-dad]

Moment

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You knew it was coming, but you’re still not prepared.

You helped your daughter with her dormitory application, secured her college funding months in advanced. Helped her pack, moved her in. The bustle of it all distracts you until the real moment hits:

She’s an adult now. It's time to let her go.

You know she’s a smart kid. Smarter than you ever were at her age. She’s kind; she’ll meet lots of new people and make plenty of friends. She’s careful; she’ll make better mistakes than you did.

She’s standing at the doorway of her room. A few unpacked boxes are behind her (not much space to take her entire room with her when she’s sharing it with a stranger). You and her mother take turns to give her one more hug before leaving. You wave good-bye and she stands there, waving back at you until you’re out of her sight.

You make it halfway down the corridor until you turn back to be face-to-face with her again.

“Gimme a call if you need me to wail on somebody for ya!”

She giggles. “Sure thing, Dad.”

You just want to stay a little longer. She moved so far away. Who knows when you'll see her in-person like this again?

“Don’t break the ice machine in the common room!”

She rolls her eyes. “Pff, har har!”

You want to say another thing, but can't think of anything else to stall the moment. All you can do is smile while looking at her. Feels like yesterday when you dropped her off at kindergarten class and she didn’t want to let you go. “You’ll be fine,” you said to reassure her.

“Love ya, sweetheart,” you finally say.

“Love you too, Dad.”

From behind, your wife grabs you by the shoulders and turns you around. “I’ll make sure your father isn’t bored at home,” she announces assuredly.

Noelle chuckles. “Yeah, keep him busy!”

You both say “goodbye” again and wave one more time, now hand-in-hand with Carol.

“She’ll be fine,” your wife reassures you.

You know she will.

[withoutcomedy]

* Somewhere on your burning dash board you can spot a shabby sentry station.

* On second glance, the sentry station appears to be a pitchfork sale.

* A familiar skeleton’s waiting for you at the counter. 

* As you approach, he’s fast asleep... or so you think. 

[rin-tsukiyori-archive]

When people are anxious or afraid, they release adrenaline. Dogs can smell this hormone, hence the saying that "dogs can smell fear".

A paw appeared at the entrance to the cave, slowly followed by the appearance of a familiar face. "... Rin?" Bones called quietly. "Are you okay? May I come in?" (Feel free to ignore this. Rooting for ya, friend.)

-Rin jolts hearing Bones talk to her. She just makes grabby hands at him. She’s not able to speak, but it’s obvious she wants him to hold her-

[the-lost-adventurer-plum]

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SEND  🤫💬 FOR MY MUSE TO TELL YOUR MUSE A SECRET

“ I have taken enough of your shedding to construct a life size replica of you and have utilized it to scare people.” 

[a-tale-of-six]

Bones is hardly standing still, but his tail is wagging hard. The boy might even let out an excited whine.

Somehow, in the distance, there are two familiar kids over there. Would you look at that, it's Silver, and he's seemed to have noticed the dog monster.. probably the sound of that wagging is probably very loud.

"Hey, is that.. that is! Hi, it's been a long while! Justin, look who's here!"

He waves over to the coated child, whom looked over, arms crossed with a small smile. Adjusting his glasses, he looks genuinely happy as he began to walk over towards Bones.

"My, someone's giddy. Or course, it's only natural.. we haven't seen each other in so long."

[dreeming-royalty]

“Why are you saying it???”

[notreallythegreatestperson]

"Aren't you happy?"

“I... I don’t know.”

The kid looks down, fingers digging into the dirt where they sit. “I should be happy. I don’t have a reason not to be. I’ve got more than I ever expected I would- and far more than I deserve. I should be over the fucking moon. But...” They shake their head. “I don’t know. I’m probably just being dumb and selfish and ungrateful.”