Through The Living Glass

Vyz it's okay you can just de-limb him

Huh. If you don't mind me asking, what happened?

Oh . . . I'm sorry.

*huffs* Well I do! Nah we're glad you're back, H!

Is that why you de-limbed me that one time

Why only sometimes?

Gets a hemalurgically charged gold spike Inserts a chocolate chunk pumpkin spice vanilla bean cookie

Nice, he wrote. Did you like it there?

I mean I didn't before but now you've convinced me Shoe looked from Livetha to Beosta. What about you? Where are you from?

Gets a bridge crew????? Insert some bandages and therapy for Kaladin

Gets a winning lottery ticket Inserts pigeon

Shoe smiled. Thanks.

He shook his head. It's okay to be curious. I'm just . . . not ready to talk about that yet.

All the people there who I'd cared about were gone.

What color are your bones?

Gets Stain Edwards Inserts Beetlejuice

WELCOME BACK FELLOW HUMAN *celebration* Edit: Ironically, the computer just verified that I was human.

Where I'm from, it's . . . very peaceful, he started. I lived in a small community in the mountains, but of course I didn't realize it was small until I left; there were only a couple hundred people. Our homes and fields were wedged between two enormous peaks to the North and South, which were absolutely smothered in pine trees. We didn't get much traffic from other villages. It wasn't an isolated town, per se, but we weren't particularly relevant to other settlements. We'd host individual travelers often enough though. Anyway, I lived there with just my younger sister; our parents had passed a few years after she was born, and our neighbors took care of us after that. The people in that town were wonderful, and so kind to us, but with our parents no longer there, their relationships with us felt more . . . obligatory, rather than genuine. They seemed distant. There were other kids my age who I was friends with, of course, but I never really felt close with them like I did with my sister. She never really knew our parents, my sister -even I only remember bits and pieces- but I did my best to make her happy. And she made me happy, too. We'd sit and read books together, I'd play games with her, and help her with her homework (there was a very tiny school). She hated doing her homework. She always wanted to run off and explore and play and just . . . be a kid. I remember there was a river about a half hour's walk from town- she it was her favorite place to be in the whole world. The river wasn't particularly fast-moving, and it was absolutely freezing, but it was the cleanest, clearest water you'll ever see. She loved to go fishing and swimming and cliff jumping- she just loved it there. We went swimming as often as we could in the summer, and skating and ice-fishing in the winter. There was no place I'd have rather been than with her, there. He sniffed sadly. So . . . that's what my hometown was like. After I left . . . Well, I never had any reason to go back. It's probably changed a lot. His eyes were misty when he finished. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk, he added, then handed the pad to Beosta. @The Halcyon Girl

"Thought so."

Shoe sighed and shook his head, then began writing.

A sad look overcame Shoe's face.

Haly you're a carmel. Caramel? Wait YOU'RE SWEET

*laughs in gray square*