[ backdated to sometime last week ]

[meteorstorm]

[ at least one member of the Kamen Rider Cabin has been mysteriously missing for a few days

which may or may not have something to do with the small dog scratching at the door to be let in ]

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[he....... relaxes a little]

...oh. So it was just Camp being weird.

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Why would you think any different?

[tsuntothecore]

I--I don't!

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[ whuffling out a little sigh ]

You were more polite about it than Marvelous was, at least.

[tsuntothecore]

That... doesn't really seem to be much of an accomplishment. [wrinkling his nose]

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"What happened" is a step up from "who'd you do".

[tsuntothecore]

[rolls his eyes]

There are a bunch of reasons someone might get turned into an animal, here.

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But apparently that is the most common.

[tsuntothecore]

...I guess. [still petting you]

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[ stretching ]

If it's going to happen, it's certainly not going to be him.

[ because what no ]

[tsuntothecore]

[he pulls a face, shaking his head]

I don't want to think about it, thanks.

[meteorstorm]

[ shuddering puppy ]

I don't either.

[tsuntothecore]

[scratching gently low on your back as he settles again, sighing]

Let's not, then.

[meteorstorm]

[ o-oh. that's a nice spot ]

. . . You've been alright?

[tsuntothecore]

[scratches harder]

...yeah. I feel better knowing... some of what happened. [he can't help blushing a little, his voice quiet] Kisaragi showed me the letter I wrote.

[meteorstorm]

[ this is a very obviously frozen, tense puppy ]

. . . He told you.

[tsuntothecore]

...yeah. [rubbing your back soothingly] Pretty much everything, I think.

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[ . . . shit ]

What did he say.

[tsuntothecore]

That I... die, but come back? It was muddled, but I got the impression that it was hard to explain exactly what went on even beyond the fact that I was killed. ...he did say it was Gamou. Or, the letter did.

[meteorstorm]

[ leave it to Gentarou to explain things in the most convoluted way possible ]

You didn't die. Not like . . .

[ tilting his head up at you

these are puppy eyes ]

Not like he did. It's complicated. Gamou was the reason you went away, but . . . he was also the reason you came back.

[tsuntothecore]

Sakuta... it's all right. [tugs you a little closer, because warm puppy hugs are surprisingly comforting] Well--I mean, it's not, but... there's nothing I can do about it, and I come back.

[meteorstorm]

[ yes, yes, you can hug ]

You do. I'd already gone back to Subaruboshi by then.

[tsuntothecore]

[scratches gently under your chin, nodding a little]

That's... good. [sighing]

[meteorstorm]

[ might be drooling a little with chinscratches ]

Ah.

[tsuntothecore]

[eew. he politely does not notice this, but he does go back to scratching your ears, sighing a little]