1st Bark [Action] because who can read anyways journals are useless etc

[dogboy]

[With the influx of New Feathers, no one's probably noticed this boy rolling on the ground trying to bite his wings. In the snow. With only those bare amount of clothes. And failing. S'hard being a human.

Once he finds out he can't though, he's reduced to being cold and miserable and sticking by the edge of the forest near the school because he sees all these humans and does not want to interact with them, so obviously the best way to go about this is to wait until it's not so light outside and then go look for someplace warm. And to stay away from those people. Yes, perfect.

The journal's pretty much abandoned beside the tree he's pressing against in some effort of being warm there is a reason he has never gone any place cold in his canon and that is because he is 1. under-dressed for it and 2. from a tropical island. Good luck trying to talking to him or anything though, because he's pretty distrustful of anything remotely human.]

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[dogboy]

[Like he knows! Once everyone tells him the same exact thing, he'll probably start to believe it though. Hard to ignore something everyone seems to know, after all.]

If you're not being useful, then just leave.

[antlioncyclone]

Sometimes they take someone for days or even weeks. Sometimes they create an effect over the whole village, altering what we say or do or look like. We are kept in this enclosure, Luceti and the land surrounding it, and we are at the mercy of their experiments.

[dogboy]

Sounds like that place they took Avatars... [Experiments are bad. Free food is nice, but it's just another Hell from his Utopian dream.]

This is stupid! I want to go home, at least there Arca kept me safe from those dumb things! We were going to have a Utopia with Lady Mathias! [Gosh he's upset.]

no!!!

[subsultive]

Who knows? They just are. [Hmmm.] The older you grow, the sleeker your feathers become, so I guess if you stay here long enough, you won't have down anymore.

yeah!!!

[dogboy]

[They look silly. Dogs don't have feathers.]

I don't want to stay here! I need to find the Manifest for Lady Mathias, so stay out of my way.

[antlioncyclone]

[...yeah. Mewtwo feels a little rush of...shame, almost, seeing Chien's anger. He'd gotten awfully apathetic in a year, when his rage was once his greatest weapon...]

I'm not going to say "it's not so bad", or "we get used to it". But while we weather the things the Malnosso do, we can find friends and comrades amongst our fellow captives, and lessen the part our captors play in our lives. The worst thing to do is to face the experiments on your own.

no!!!!!!!!!!!

[subsultive]

[You're not a dog.]

She has it. [That'll be enough to shut him up about it, maybe.] Anyway, you're stuck here for the time being...

[ruinedhiswish]

_{[hopefully they will tell him then, because Iria here is kind of losing patience.]}

What? Don't tell me you want to stay here!

...Normally I wouldn't really care, but you saved Luca, so...

<sub>[tsuntsun. She only cares because you saved her friend, right? Right.

But now thinking about this, yes. It'll be best if the others will tell everything to Chien. After all Luca and Ange are better at explaining stuff.]</sub>

It'd be best if you go with me. We live in house 46. I'm sure that if you ask everyone, they'll tell you I'm not lying!

I don't think this is going to work out.

[penetrated]

[author! author!]

This place isn't exactly Nara-- [oh, that name rings a bell!]

Actually... this might sound weird, but do you know a person named Luca? Um, or Iria or Hermana?

yeah!!!!!!!!!!

[dogboy]

[She has it? The Manifest? Such joy on his face! If he had a tail, it'd be wagging! But he'll still with being happy.





But what if you're lying.]

You're not lying?

what gave you the idea

[dogboy]

[Just the names make his face contort into a snarl.]

And if I do? What's it to you? Do you know those liars?

[dogboy]

What sort of things do they do? [He thinks that they won't find him in the forest, if he lives there, so...]

[dogboy]

I'm not going anywhere with you! Forget it!

I think 'the' should be 'that'.

[penetrated]

[Well, that's not the best of reactions...]

Ah... yes. I met them here. Did you have a falling out with them, maybe?

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[subsultive]

Have I lied so far?

[antlioncyclone]

Once, we all acted as though we were characters in old stories. Another time, everyone turned into a species different than what they had been.

Most that affect the whole enclosure are troublesome, but harmless in their nature. Some are worse. But when they take someone away for a time, the experiment they do on that single person can be awful. Everything is temporary, but the memory is not erased.

true!!

[fideliter]

[ ... Well then. ]

That is no way to speak to someone who is concerned over your health!

[ This is already off to a wonderful start. ]

[mythmaker]

Mmm, that's right. [Or wrong.] Mine's somewhere up there, too...but...

Aren't you cold wearing so little?

i'm not arguing!

[dogboy]

[Well, no, but... Not to his knowledge, anyways, but why wouldn't he? If he wasn't gonna join Arca, he was the enemy - someone who didn't want Utopia - so he could easily lie to him.]

Have you?

i think 'you' should 'shut up'.

[dogboy]

They're traitors.

[dogboy]

[Shivers. Obviously not from the cold, but he's heard tales about what happens to Avatars that aren't in Arca. Sent to war, messed with, all sorts of things. That's why he's thankful to Lady Mathias for having found him.]

I'll have to keep out of their way the best I can...

[wannabolt]

Naraka?

[Blinkblink. Give her a second, and she shakes her head.]

Never heard of it, but Equestria's full of pegasi.

[And... snort. Silly people trying to fly like her.]

[dogboy]

Yeah, what's it to you?

[This tree isn't very warm it's just that

talking put his mind off it. Why did you remind him.]

[mythmaker]

Mm, it's nothing. It's just unfair that I have so many warm clothes and you don't. Would you like my scarf?

[dogboy]

What's an Eq... Eque-whatever? I've never heard of it either.