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Lunamor

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  1. “But I like the horses…” Jenny was too stubborn to let herself fall asleep, so she stayed in the limbo one found themselves in after waking up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water. It was somewhat more restful than being wide awake, at least.
  2. Jenny rested her head on Ed’s shoulder. She’d forgotten how hard sitting up could be when you were tired. She noticed a pure black horse out of the window and, despite her exhaustion, managed to point a slightly shaking finger in its direction and excitedly announce its presence. She wondered what it was named. Hopefully it was something befitting a beautiful steed, like William.
  3. “Sure.” Jenny reluctantly let go and started stumbling back to their seats. She liked it when she and Ed could be alone, but that was rather difficult on a train stuffed with people. Being away from their group wasn’t a super great idea, either, since any of those people could be a monster in disguise.
  4. “I think sitting down is fine.” They hadn’t bought enough tickets for her to have room to lie down on the seats, and she wasn’t a particularly big fan of the idea of lying down on the floor. She could sleep sitting up if she had to.
  5. “Just really tired. I’m still healing. Tomorrow morning I should be fine, though.” Their ambrosia was very handy. Jenny felt a bit bad for eating so much of it, but at least they had gorgon blood as a backup. Her eyelids began to droop again, which was extremely annoying.
  6. Eventually, Jenny nearly collapsed. Standing there with her eyes closed, the sound of Ed’s heartbeat had briefly lulled her to sleep. His arms around her prevented her from falling, but she still blushed with embarrassment. She probably should’ve sat down, but she didn’t want to move.
  7. Jenny nodded. It made her sad to think that Ed apparently didn’t have anything to live for before he’d met her. It had admittedly been the same for herself, though. Thinking about how awful that had felt just made her more sad for Ed. She was glad he didn’t have to feel that way anymore. Since her head was pressed against his chest, she closed her eyes and listened to his heartbeat. It was a comforting reminder that he was ok.
  8. “Um… don’t die?” Jenny always felt bad when she didn’t know what to do to help, so she figured that she should give Ed an answer since he’d been asking that so much. She also genuinely wanted him to follow that request, although he was probably already planning on doing that. Still, it couldn’t hurt to remind him.
  9. Jenny smiled weakly. This quest would’ve gone far worse for her had Ed not been there to calm her down. She slowly forced herself to relax. Staying tense would just exhaust her more. She hugged Ed back, but not quite as tightly. Her arms felt too heavy for that.
  10. Something in Jenny felt indecisive. That emotion then withdrew, the saturation leaving along with it. She would’ve felt more relieved were it not for the fact that her put-togetherness had also faded away. Her posture slumped a bit and she once again was on the edge of pushing herself too far. “Hugs are nice.”
  11. “Terrance was upset because he thought he was a monster. I made eye contact with him and got really spooked. I think with the way he’s been talking about things, it’s been bringing up some not very good thoughts in my head. The dread amplified them.” Jenny felt strangely embarrassed. She kept losing any progress she made when it came to improving her self image, despite all that Ed was doing to try to help her.
  12. “Sure!” Jenny hopped up, excited at the excuse to move around. Trains involved a lot of sitting. They’d also moved on to an area with less animals standing in fields, so the view out the window wasn’t as interesting anymore.
  13. “I love you too.” Jenny smiled, still a little confused. She leaned on Ed a bit, fighting off the urge to sleep. She’d have time for that later. Right now, she needed to destroy all of her friends at a card game.
  14. “I don’t think so. I’d like to play some more Uno, though.” Fortunately, her excitement for that hadn’t been quashed. She still wanted to win. She carefully picked up her cards, noting that her movements were weirdly stiff. Strange. That was probably just a result of her injury. She should be fully up and running by the next morning, thankfully.
  15. Her cards seemed fine, thankfully. Ed suddenly hugged her. What was that about? Did she look sad? Maybe she still looked upset from earlier. She did feel a little funny, but couldn’t pin down exactly why. Things felt off, somehow. It looked like everything was a little too saturated. It was comparable to the result of someone overcompensating with the brightness of their paints after being criticized for creating washed-out looking art. Maybe her eyes had dried out too much or something. She rubbed them, but it didn’t do much. The experience left her looking slightly confused.
  16. Having now sat back down at the table, Jenny felt rather proud of Terrance. He’d done a pretty good job of consoling Elsie. It seemed a little out of character for him, in a good way. She carefully inspected her cards lying on the table, trying to see if they had been tampered with or moved. @Weaver of Lights
  17. Jenny stood there awkwardly for a moment. Should she leave too? She didn’t want to leave Terrance alone. She settled for walking very slowly back towards their group, trying to see if he was following or not.
  18. As soon as Jenny locked the door behind her, she regretted what she had done. It was selfish to flee. They had needed her, and she’d run away like a coward. They didn’t need you. She should go apologize. Tell them it wasn’t their fault. Poor Terrance was probably feeling even worse now. She reached to unlock the door. Don’t. She froze. Her head started to ache and her vision began to turn white. Not again. It was happening again. Again, again, again. In that little gap between moments, she remembered what had happened before. With the last of her autonomy, Jenny threw open the door. That was rather annoying. Now it would look suspicious to the other passengers if she immediately closed the door again with that stupid, terrified expression on her face. So the control over her was lessened. Not completely, but enough that she wouldn’t get another nasty headache and get too suspicious. Jenny blinked, and everything seemed normal. She didn’t remember stepping outside, which was odd. She was feeling oddly put together. She walked back over to Terrance and Elsie. ”Sorry for leaving. Do you guys want to go play Uno? Terrance, you can watch if you want. Or you could be on my team.” She whispered to him conspiratorially. ”I could use someone to help me spy on everyone else’s cards.” @The Aspiring Archivist @Random Bystander
  19. Jenny’s voice was barely above a whisper. She wouldn’t have made eye contact even if she could. ”I’m not terrified of you. Most of this was already there.” She forced a pitiful smile and gave a wry chuckle. “It’s not that bad, anyways.” Liar, liar, liar. She shook her head. Her smile only managed to survive for a few seconds. She could leave again. Not physically, but mentally. Accept those glassy eyes, float in nothing. But she couldn’t risk not being in control. So she decided to leave physically. ”Thank you, I’m gonna go.” Jenny’s voice shook slightly as she addressed no one in particular. She then fled to the bathroom and locked herself inside.
  20. Jenny quickly averted her gaze, gritting her teeth. He said he was a monster. She was a monster too. How long would it be until she lost control? Until she killed again? Until she gave in? Not long. The voice was right. She was a danger. Monsters needed to stay away from everyone else. Terrance had the right idea. Even after she was no longer making eye contact, the dread lingered. Her eyes remained wide, staring at nothing. She tried to shake out of it, but something in her mind was refusing to let go of the terror. The dread dug its claws into the surface of her thoughts and scraped gashes through them each time it was yanked back from its attempts to flee. She nodded, not reacting to the hug. ”You’re not a monster, Terrance.” Who are you to be the judge of that? Jenny whispered to herself under her breath. She somehow managed to hold back the tears trying to well up in her eyes. ”I’m not a monster.” LIAR. It was right. She didn’t believe what she had said.
  21. “Not on purpose. You aren’t a bad person because you happened to be born like this.” Jenny almost tried to pat Terrance on the back, but remembered that he didn’t seem to like that. So she just crouched there, awkwardly not making eye contact, instead. It made her feel pretty useless.
  22. “Why do you think that?” Jenny crouched down next to Terrance. She knew that he wasn’t a monster, but just asserting facts like that hadn’t seemed to do her much good when trying to persuade people. Maybe she could rebuff his reasoning. She felt like she’d been getting a little better at that- Ed had certainly given her lots of practice.
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