[ It's said with a little laugh, and he turns himself around fully this time, to face Josh, grinning up at him. ]
It was too early fer botha us, but def way too early fer you. You were stubbornly goin' to let it kill ya, an' kinda frankly, so was I. But the humans of the place figured they could get it outta us with their tech and it worked. Confessions averted an' we both lived. Shit, we even got the zoomies over it.
[ His expression softens as he thinks about it, about Josh back then. Just like he was now, if not a little more vulnerable due to being depowered. Closed, guarded, unwilling to admit things he wanted or desperately needed. Starving for the touch but fearing it so bad it made him sick. ]
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[ It's said with a little laugh, and he turns himself around fully this time, to face Josh, grinning up at him. ]
It was too early fer botha us, but def way too early fer you. You were stubbornly goin' to let it kill ya, an' kinda frankly, so was I. But the humans of the place figured they could get it outta us with their tech and it worked. Confessions averted an' we both lived. Shit, we even got the zoomies over it.
[ His expression softens as he thinks about it, about Josh back then. Just like he was now, if not a little more vulnerable due to being depowered. Closed, guarded, unwilling to admit things he wanted or desperately needed. Starving for the touch but fearing it so bad it made him sick. ]
We 'ventually got there, of course, but not then.