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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 15, 2021 3:29:07 GMT
Admittedly Terra hadn't taken notice, she had just wanted to take the weight off of her feet. Shoulders slumped backwards, hands supporting her body against the mattress. Form drained, it took a little bit of time before she processed most of the chatter.
Eyes opening she would turn to Stag before looking over to Shiv's reaction. A short time before an amused smirk came to her face. A sound to match was made in her throat, before letting herself fall backwards onto the bed. Arms landing with a muffled thwump at her sides. Normally, she would say food without any thought. That wasn't the case this time. Energy spent, and that was only made more apparent to her after cleaning up.
A deep sigh left her lungs before answering. "I think... I don't want to move for a while," she states. Everything felt like she had the weight of her original Larvitar body. Currently she couldn't even muster the energy to bring herself to particularly care that Stag was on the same bed.
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Post by Robot on Oct 19, 2021 19:58:33 GMT
"Sounds like a winner to me.". Stag climbed under the covers before too long with how low the temperature in the room was, borderline uncomfortable. Priss seems content to lay under a light sheet. Vibe wraps up in everything he can get his hands on, head poking out from a mass of blankets and pillows.
Shiv watches the dance-program until it is over, before quietly leaving the room. Soft sighs, heavy breathing, and the odd snore form a comforting white noise, with the dull whoosh of the AC.
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 20, 2021 4:54:00 GMT
The further hand from Stag slightly twitched at the movement. Tightening some in instinct at first. The rest of her didn't move, eyes remaining closed. Finally the chill air settling into her own body had the shorter shifting, almost resentfully at having to move. Burrowing into the covers once under them. Head stubbornly staying in the warmth instead of poking out.
She laid awake, aware of the sounds of the television. Body exhausted, mind also weary but also trying to sort everything. Not to mention that the longer she laid there, curled up tightly as if she was in the ground once more. The more aware she was becoming of the rhythm of Stag's breath. The weight on the other side of the mattress. Weird. She had always slept alone. Before human, and after. Keeping the territory mentality that a bed was hers. No compromising.
In, out. In... Out. Eventually her thoughts came to a stop while sleeping. Dreams took some time to be created. They also were weird. Things she had experienced replayed, but mixed together. Flashes of the fight of Xurkitree and Celesteela. Loud sounds. Thomas, Ruin, Stag, more of the changed flash between the attacks.
A sharp breath drawn in, eyes opening suddenly. Cold sweat on her neck, she was still under the covers. Darkness. A hyperaware sensation prickling up her spine as she felt something solid against her back. Still, she didn't move yet.
How long had she been asleep? Not long likely, at least that's what it felt. The heaviness in her limbs were still very present.
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Post by Robot on Oct 20, 2021 18:14:49 GMT
The solid mass Terra had come to rest against turned slowly, stags eyes coming into view in the dim lighting of the room. The large girl propped herself up on her forearms. She cast a glance towards their still sleeping roommates before leaning in close and lowering her voice to a whisper, breath tickling Terra's ear.
"You're shaking, and you were thrashing in your sleep." A warm hand closed over her forearm, and held it firmly. "You good?"
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 20, 2021 19:42:21 GMT
It took a moment for their eyes to meet. What with having the blanket over her still. Strikingly alert red pupils meeting Stag's. Intense stare holding their gaze. Terra hadn't realized she had been doing that.
A reaction didn't come at first. It was not an experience she was used to. Brain struggling to process. This close. This brand of quiet. Muscles felt like a tightly coiled band under the grip. Close to snapping.
Silence deafening until Terra finds some sort of response to give. A hushed strained sound leaving her throat with a sort of nod. She had stopped thrashing at least. She didn't know what to say exactly to get across how she was fully.
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Post by Robot on Oct 20, 2021 20:04:48 GMT
"Easy.". Stag cautioned and removed the hand, before sprawling out on her back, again adopting her relaxed posture. "You're safe with me.". She glanced over at the other bed and smiled brilliantly, managing a laugh. "And them too, I guess.". The loudly snoring pile of bedding and Priss in a praying posture gently chewing on the sheets.
"Everything from today just kind of hit you at once while you were out cold and wound you back up again?"
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 20, 2021 21:14:25 GMT
Those muscles stayed tense. However Stag found that the other didn't make any sudden movements now that she was awake. Eyes watching just as intensely before. As the time passed her body would slowly ease. One long exhale leaving as Terra brought her head up out of the covers fully, to drop against the pillow.
It took effort to lift her arms. Hands pressing against her own face before fingers would drag down before pulling away. So. Much. The laugh had her look to the other side of the room. Watching quietly the sight with an uncertain expression.
At the question she looked at the ceiling. Mulling the question before nodding again. "Yeah... It's, a lot." Hushed words heavy. There was an aching soreness everywhere making itself known to her now.
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Post by Robot on Oct 20, 2021 21:33:26 GMT
Stag nodded knowingly, releasing a long nasal exhale and frowning. "Humans call them dreams. It's a catch-all word for thoughts and feelings that you can't express or experience when you are awake. I still get them about the day the hive was raided. Never seen so much fire."
Stag considered the knuckles on her interlaced hands and shrugged. "They can't hurt you, but they are really inconvenient. When one of us has one, we usually bunch up together and talk about it. It helps."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 21, 2021 2:52:02 GMT
That's what they called them? A strange name for a thing. Not the first time that she's had them, but the first time that someone else told her about them. Hands opening and closing slowly as her nerves calm.
"You aren't wrong about that," Terra agreed about the inconvenience, her nose wrinkling. The mention of talking about it, there's a palpable reluctance that hangs between them. Terra squinting a bit in thought at the ceiling still. A drawn out mix of a 'hmm' and groan. "That's, not something I really do," she comments. Not a hard decline to discuss it, more of a statement in what she's done in the past in her tone.
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Post by Robot on Oct 21, 2021 20:00:16 GMT
"It's like wrestling.". Stag explained casually. "You know how you get a feel for where the pressure is going to come from, and how your partner is shifting their weight? Since it's all in your head you don't really see it, you just feel it and know? It helps someone else show you how to shift your stance."
Stag moved over, and curled her arm across the mattress space between them. "Give it a try?"
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 23, 2021 2:42:01 GMT
This comparison took a while to sink into Terra's thought process. Nose wrinkles slowly easing away little by little. There was still some doubt in her expression, it showed in the slight down curve at the corner of her mouth.
The shifting weight had her attention, she didn't retreat, staying still on the bed. A more full sigh being produced before speaking. "So...do I... just... start with what I was seeing before?" she asks, gaze shifting from the ceiling to Stag. Discomfort easily read in her body language as she was at least genuinely attempting it. "Or is there something specific I should start with?" Brows furrowing pensively, as she waited for an answer of some sort.
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Post by Robot on Oct 25, 2021 19:46:25 GMT
"You get physically comfortable and pay attention to your breathing. Sometimes we try to get into a rhythm as a nest, but it's not a big thing. I guess part of dreams is they are hard to remember, so you just say what comes to mind. If you remembered all of it, what bothered you the most.". Stag answered in a relaxed tone, lacking any kind of judgement.
"Then after that we do something that is a group activity but takes the person's mind off the stress. Priss likes to clean. Vibe prefers to go somewhere sandy or muddy and dig in a bit and just lay there. Shiv it's combat practice. I like to just be alone for a bit, maybe work myself into a sweat. Beats dodging knives or digging holes anyway."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 26, 2021 0:33:42 GMT
Silence is thick around Terra while she absorbs what Stag explains. A few minutes pass by in a dragging manner while she goes over it in her head. It was just the two of them awake, she could at least try what the other was offering. If it didn't work, she could always try time alone then from what she heard. Then her upper body is propped up on elbows as she looks to the side table. "Got something... to chew?" she mutters in a quiet manner more to herself. One hand moving to check her side. Anything would do for now.
Finally a little of fingers brushing across the top, she found one, a pen. With this in hand, she lays back on the bed, head atop the pillow. Pen end placed between her teeth, slowly chewing against it. Arms crossing just beneath her chest loosely. She watches the ceiling again. Focus moving onto the sensation it brought Terra finally finds somewhere to start at with her 'dream'. "It was Magma doing this... I thought it was someone else that did this to me," her voice is low as she speaks. "Unless that's actually the case..." Fingers curl into fists against her form. There's a small shake of her head to herself.
"That was the start, short , but it changed from that. To... that stupid fish mouth..." a groan at the memory. She pauses a moment to bite firmer against the pen casing.
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Post by Robot on Oct 26, 2021 2:06:08 GMT
"...From the sounds of things, takes a lot of Pokemon to make even one of us. If I ever see Maxie again, he loses both arms.". Stag folded her hands across her middle and considered Terra as she mentioned fish. "You've been eaten? Did you hit the dangly thingy? Mammals all have them, guess it makes them puke."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 26, 2021 2:50:52 GMT
Stag would see Terra nod an agreement about Maxie's arms. Fortunately, for the man, she hadn't the energy to put the effort into making him pay. "Not fully eaten... Its..." Terra starts, before moving one hand in a slight back and forth shaking motion. "Team Aqua, one of them had their whale kidnap me. It kept me from really putting up a fight while they took me offshore," she states with a frown. While logical that she would have lost against such a foe, it still left a bad taste in her mouth, and a bad memory in her brain.
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Post by Robot on Oct 26, 2021 17:51:30 GMT
"Oh. It's like the dream about the men with nets.". Stag sat up and climbed out of bed, finished dressing in her usuals without context. "Helplessness.". She finally adds. "I think, I want to go home. See how bad the hive is off. Maybe pick a fight or two along the way. You want something to chew on that isn't plastic?"
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 26, 2021 21:35:11 GMT
The movement pulled her attention from the ceiling. Then pushing herself up into a sitting position against the headboard, she waited with a slight confused gaze. Until Stag spoke up again. Helplessness. She didn't like the way that word sounded or the feeling it left.
The mention of going to the hive she would tilt her head. "Is that an invite? Or just telling me?" Question for clarification.
Which would turn into a nod about chewing material. "Yeah that would be... Pretty nice actually," she admits.
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Post by Robot on Oct 27, 2021 18:09:28 GMT
"You can come if you want. Mom's not really going to understand me the same anymore but I want to at least tell her the humans won't come anymore. Couple fights to pick there. We all knew the risks, losing adults at the fringes was normal, but Maxie was cutting deep.". Stag sagged. "Let's go get your critters looked after and get some food? I'm starving."
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Post by Greenwolfkate on Oct 28, 2021 3:47:43 GMT
The mention of the more difficulty that came with communicating with family, that was surprisingly familiar. Mind thinking about how she had ended up fighting her own mother even, just a short while ago. Being alone in the dark with her dreams was very much not an appealing prospect, so on her feet she went. A quick change into more appropriate traveling wear.
A loud gurgling growl answered Stag's question before Terra could even speak, an amused chuckle as her hand moved over her stomach. "Yes. I was about to ask that same thing." she admits in terms of letting her pokemon being able to get treated. Food sounded amazing. Even if she wasn't asleep long, hopefully the commotion had gotten more under control downstairs. Once out of the room and door closed behind them, she would walk by Stag's side down the hall.
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Post by Robot on Oct 28, 2021 17:49:00 GMT
Stag let the conversation fall away into a comfortable silence, her heavy footfalls and broad physique lending her presence a certain weightedness even when she didn't speak.
Downstairs the lineup was thankfully short. By the lighting outside it was some time around mid afternoon, maybe early evening. The aid thanked Terra for waiting and apologized for the congestion, let her know it would be about an hour and set about their duties.
Stag waited patiently, thumbs hooked in her belt, expression distant until Terra was done. "I think I know a place, northwest end of town. You're not weird about meat are you? Some of the changed won't touch the stuff."
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