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Scarred, muscular, black tomcat with big green eyes, large ears and odd protruding canines. A fun, adventure-loving cat with a cruel streak. Mate: @BrutalAsylum

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[[if you didn't get the hint: I am alive. I'm just not super inspired to write these days.]]

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@InABadDream He sighed. “I know, I miss it too. That's why I'm here.”

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@InABadDream “But Nightmare, everyone's already gone.” He looked around. Still subtle as a brick.

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@InABadDream This took a moment for Parallel to process. “You mean you've been here this whole time?”

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@InABadDream Parallel tried to hide his disappointment with an, “Alright.” Seemed like everyone really had cleared off.

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@InABadDream Asylum, maybe?”

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@InABadDream Parallel rolled his eyes. “I'm not a kid anymore,” he grumbled. Then, glancing quickly around, he added, “have you seen anyone else? ~~

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@InABadDream “I'm sorry,” he said, and meant it. “But I think it's been a pretty rough time for everyone. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one left.”

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@InABadDream There was a beat of quiet between the two before Parallel turned the questions back at his old mentor. “What have you been doing?”

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@InABadDream in that moment above all that Parallel decided things would never, ever go back to how they were before. But maybe he could be happy again.

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@InABadDream like every decision Parallel had ever made had been made with him in mind, the sunlight lover that was robbed from him too soon. And it was

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@InABadDream he would always put Sin — Nightmare's own son — as the catalyst for all that ever went right or wrong in his life. Correct or not, it seemed

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@InABadDream he said, “What happened to us, Nightmare? Where did everything go so wrong?” Parallel's own life had been a series of ups and downs, but ~

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@InABadDream “Something like that,” Parallel sighed. He had noticed the change in Nightmare too, though he would not speak it. Not anymore. Instead, ~

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@InABadDream “It really, really has,” he replied simply. The blackbird took off, sending a shower of blossom down from the tree it had been perching on.

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@InABadDream times, like some lost spirit, without a purpose. It almost hurt him to see Nightmare looking just as weary as he was. Almost, but not quite.

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@InABadDream left him in this time. Eventually, he spoke: “A lot of walking.” That wasn't a lie. He'd wandered across the forest and back at least six ~

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@InABadDream He turned his attention to a nearby blackbird as he let the question lay. It was strange, even his old desire to catch everything he saw had

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@InABadDream Memories of months lost in a lonesome, bohemian existence flickered like flashes through Parallel's mind. What had he been doing? ~

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@InABadDream [[Same]]

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@InABadDream distance from the other cat, as they had essentially become strangers — in Parallel's eyes, at least.