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All this time I didn't know
You were breakin' down

Sohalia followed along dubiously, doubt creeping in at the corners of her mind, because what business did she have, really, playing with random Ancient children when her city was trembling high above? This felt like another world entirely, one where she was able to let loose and be free and stop worrying, and that momentary lapse brought her no small amount of guilt. But they’d started the game now, and it seemed that it would be a letdown to the children to disappear back into the dry brush, so she dutifully followed along, one eye on Deimos, the other on the children, and tried to figure out what she was meant to be doing.

I will keep the invitation in mind, Soh replied, a faint tinge of laughter in her voice, because she’d never been a babysitter before - and, as of this moment, had no idea just how much her life was about to change to begin with. But in any case, she continued to chase along, until she reached out to boop one of the running, screaming youths with one large paw. The child tumbled (seemingly on purpose; she hadn’t hit him that hard!) and jumped to his feet, reaching to snatch her own stick. So are there two ‘its’? she wondered, sidestepping and bounding away from the child that now held her stick.

I'd fall to pieces on the floor
If you weren't around

Sohalia