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agnes-come-back-challenge · 3 years ago

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Who wants a full comparison of episodes 1, 25, and 111 of Welcome to Night Vale? Because I love comparing these episodes and also I have no impulse control. Let’s go

(Spoilers up to episode 111, obviously. Also, I’ll bold every other segment so that it’s easier to tell which ones I’m comparing)

((This is gonna be an incredibly long post. I’m very sorry))

A friendly desert community, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale. (1)

A friendly desert community, where the sun is still hot, the moon still beautiful, and mysterious lights still pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale. (25)

A friendly desert community, where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead, while we lay open eyed, watching it all. Welcome to Night Vale. (111)

Hello listeners. To start things off, I’ve been asked to read this brief notice. The City Council announces the opening of a new Dog Park at the corner of Earl and Summerset, near the Ralphs. They would like to remind everyone that dogs are not allowed in the Dog Park. People are not allowed in the Dog Park. It is possible you will see hooded figures in the Dog Park. do not approach them. Do not approach the Dog Park. The fence is electrified and highly dangerous. Try not to look at the Dog Park and especially do not look for any period of time at the hooded figures. The Dog Park will not harm you. (1)

One single year since two major events in our town’s history. First, the opening of our lovely, state-of-the-art Dog Park, which is forbidden, and which I will not mention again. (25)

The City Council reiterated for the 1,874th consecutive day that the Dog Park is off limits for both dogs and humans. The fence is electrified and highly dangerous etc. Hooded figures and all that. Since its construction we have shied from and feared the Dog Park. The Dog Park is neither a park nor for dogs, and so what does it even mean to call it a dog park? Why do we use language that means one thing to describe something that is entirely else? I don’t know what the word is for that place the City Council calls the dog park, but I do know it’s time to start searching for that word, and once found, to use it boldly. (111)

And now the news. Old Woman Josie, out near the car lot, says the Angels revealed themselves to her. Said they were ten feet tall, radiant, one of them was black. Said they helped her with various household chores. One of them changed a light bulb for her, the porch light. She’s offering to sell the old light bulb, which has been touched by an angel (it was the black angel, if that sweetens the pot for anyone). If you’re interested, contact Old Woman Josie. She’s out near the car lot. (1)

[none] (25)

The angels, who I can now say are angels, and will say are angels, because they are angels, held a memorial for Old Woman Josie in her house. Everyone in town came, overcome with a feeling that finally they could look at these beings and recognize them for what they were. Even the City Council attended the memorial, but refused to make eye contact with anyone. Of course, this positive, concrete identification only led to more mysteries, for if these are angels, then where did they come from? And what does that mean for us? Even now we find that we cannot voice these questions. Not because we are not allowed. But because we cannot find the words to ask. Instead we ate cake and drank coffee in the living room of Old Woman Josie, which was once just that, a place she lived. Now it is only a room. One by one, we laid our hand on the Angels’ hands, and in that moment of contact each of us, in turn, found ourselves weeping. As the party wound down, we all heard a soft pop outside. It was the lightbulb on Old Woman Josie’s porch, burning out. (111)

A new man came in to town today. Who is he? What does he want from us? Why his perfect and beautiful haircut? Why his perfect and beautiful coat? He says he is a scientist. Well, we have all been scientists at one point or another in our lives. But why now? Why here? And just what does he plan to do with all those beakers and humming electrical instruments in that lab he’s renting, the one next to Big Rico’s Pizza. No one does a slice, like Big Rico. No one. (1)

Second, and more important, it is one year since the arrival in Night Vale of our most beloved and singular citizen. (25)

A man who I know very well came into my house today, which is also his house. He laid his head, with its perfect and beautiful hair, upon my shoulder, and crossed his arms over his perfect and beautiful lab coat. I embraced him. We are creatures of touch, humans, and we retrieve so much meaning and happiness from contact. “I have become too complacent,” he said. “When I came here, I understood this town as scientifically fascinating. And then, gradually, it became my day to day life. I could no longer see the strangeness, but only my home.” “We are all guilty of that,” I said. “But I am a scientist,” he said.“Well,” I said. “We have all been scientists at one point or another in our lives.” (111)

Just a reminder to all the parents out there. Let’s talk about safety when taking your children out to play in the scrub lands and the sand wastes. You need to give them plenty of water, make sure there’s a shade tree in the area, and keep an eye on the helicopter colors. Are the unmarked helicopters circling the area black? Probably World Government, not a good area for play that day. Are they blue? That’s the Sheriff’s Secret Police, they’ll keep a good eye on your kids, and hardly ever take one. Are they painted with complex murals depicting birds of prey diving? No one knows what those helicopters are, or what they want. Do not play in the area. Return to your home and lock the doors until a Sheriff’s Secret Policeman leaves a carnation on your porch to indicate that the danger has passed. Cover your ears to blot out the screams. Also, remember: Gatorade is basically soda, so give your kids plain old water and maybe some orange slices when they play. (1)

Parents: Let’s talk about safety when taking your children to play out in the scrub lands and the sand wastes. All children in Night Vale are missing this week, so there’s no current safety issues. Hope we find them! (25)

Just a reminder to all the parents out there. Let’s talk about safety when taking your children out to play in the scrub lands and the sand wastes. You need to give them plenty of water, make sure there’s a shade tree in the area, and keep an eye on the helicopter colors. I asked my best friend and brother, Steve, to talk me through which helicopters belong to which organizations. Obviously the black helicopters belong to the World Government, although I had not realized, until Steve laid it out for me, how closely they are also associated with the Lizard People. The blue ones are Sheriff’s Secret Police, the pink ones are the new Double Secret Police, and the ones painted with complex murals depicting birds of prey diving? Well not even Steve knows what those helicopters are, nor what they want. On Steve’s chart, those are just labeled with the word RUN and then a few hundred exclamation points. (111)

A commercial airliner flying through local airspace disappeared today, only to reappear in the Night Vale Elementary gymnasium during basketball practice, disrupting practice quite badly. The jet roared through the small gym for only a fraction of a second, and before it could strike any players or structure, it vanished again, this time apparently for good. There is no word yet on if or how this will affect the Night Vale Mountain Lion’s game schedule, and also if this could perhaps be the work of their bitter rivals, the Desert Bluffs Cacti. Desert Bluffs is always trying to show us up through fancier uniforms, better pre-game snacks, and quite possibly by transporting a commercial jet into our gymnasium, delaying practice for several minutes at least. For shame, Desert Bluffs. For shame. (1)

In other news, a commercial airliner appeared today inside the home of surprised Night Vale citizen Becky Canterbury, who said she was about to get in the shower when it roared down her hallway and then disappeared, as suddenly as it had arrived. There is no conclusive evidence that this is the same airliner last seen in the Night Vale Elementary gym one year ago, but we have jumped to that conclusion and will defend it against all naysayers, violently and without mercy. Our truths may or may not be true, but they are ours, and we stand by them, even as the experts and skeptics hold aloft clipboards and intone to us about snow and mountains. Becky added that she would like to take that shower now, and that she has no idea how we managed to arrive for an interview mere seconds after the incident occurred. “My doors are locked.” she said. “My windows too. I’ve had my eyes shut for years. How did you get in here?” (25)

A commercial airliner flying through local airspace disappeared today, only to reappear at the fifth hole of the Sagebrook Pines Private Golf Club and Bulk Supplier. This disrupted all golf activities badly, as well as scaring a family of four who were perusing bulk paper towels offered at a discount price in a nearby sandtrap. I feel, for the first time, that I can articulate that this airliner had flown into some other universe, those divisions being particularly thin here in our quaint little community. This also is the cause of things like dead relatives occasionally joining us for breakfast, or the shimmering skyscrapers and crowded cities that appear for flashing moments in the sky. Of course, it also could be the handywork of the East Night Vale Cacti, the basketball team at the new East Night Vale Elementary School. Those scamps are always pulling pranks. Could they transport a large plane through multiple universes? Who am I to say? But probably yes. For shame, East Night Vale. For shame. (111)

The local chapter of the NRA is selling bumper stickers as part of their fundraising week. They sent the station one to get some publicity, and we’re here to serve the community, so I’m happy to let you all know about it. The stickers are made from good, sturdy vinyl, and they read: “Guns don't kill people. It's impossible to be killed by a gun. We are all invincible to bullets and it's a miracle.” Stand outside of your front door and shout “NRA” to order one. (1)

The local chapter of the NRA has begun market testing some possible new slogans. These include: “Guns don't kill people. Blood loss and organ damage does.” “Guns don't kill people. People kill guns.” “A list of things that kill people: 1. Conceivably anything. 2. Not guns.” “Guns don't kill people. We are all immortal souls living temporarily in shelters of earth and meat.” and “If you say guns kill people one more time I will shoot you with a gun and you will, coincidentally, die.” To vote on the new slogan, simply fire a gun at the object or person that best represents your choice. (25)

The local chapter of the NRA is selling bumper stickers as part of their fundraising week. The stickers are made from good, sturdy vinyl and they read “We genuinely do not value human life.” Cute! (111)

Carlos and his team of scientists warn that one of the houses in the new development of Desert Creek, out back of the elementary school, doesn’t actually exist. “It seems like it exists,” explained Carlos and his perfect hair. “Like it’s just right there when you look at it, and it’s between two other identical houses so it would make more sense for it to be there than not” But, he says, they have done experiments and the house is definitely not there. At news time, the scientists are standing in a group on the sidewalk in front of the nonexistent house, daring each other to go knock on the door. (1)

Scientists, and science in general, would like to remind you that some things exist and some things do not. Usually, you can apply the simple test of seeing if it is there. If it is there, it exists. If not, it probably doesn’t, but it might just be currently existing somewhere else. Existence is tricky, the scientists say. Research shows this. For instance, there is that house in the housing development of Desert Creek out back of the elementary school, the house that doesn’t exist. It seems like it exists. Like it’s just right there when you look at it, and it’s between two other identical houses so it would make more sense for it to be there than not. But it does not exist. They have proved this with science. The scientists still haven’t gotten up the nerve to ring the doorbell and find out what happens. Do you want to do it? They’ll pay you five dollars if you do. Just ring it once ok. We’ll be watching from back here. You’ll probably be fine. (25)

Carlos and his scientists, like Luisa and Nilanjana, are renewing their investigation into the house in the development of Desert Creek, out back of the elementary school. The house that doesn’t actually exist. “It seems like it exists,” muttered Carlos. “Like it’s just right there when you look at it, and it’s between two other identical houses so it would make more sense for it to be there than not.” But he says, it is actually a doorway to another world. A world he himself was once stuck in for a year. There seem to be secrets about that year he is keeping to himself. Maybe someday we will learn what they are. (111)

Lights, seen in the sky above the Arby’s. Not the glowing sign of Arby’s. Something higher and beyond that. We know the difference. We’ve caught on to their game. We understand the lights above Arby’s game. Invaders from another world. Ladies and gentlemen the future is here. And it’s about a hundred feet above the Arby’s. (1)

But here, Carlos and I sat on the trunk of that car, his car, looking together at the lights up in the sky above the Arby’s. They were beautiful in the hushed twilight, shimmering in a night sky already coming alive with bits of the universe. [...] We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: we don’t understand even more. (25)

Lights, seen in the sky above the Arby’s. Not the glowing sign of Arby’s. Something higher and beyond that. One night, years ago, two people, scared and vulnerable and loving and ready, came together for a quiet moment under that sky. And I pretended at the time to understand the lights. But a big part of recognizing the world for what it is, is recognizing when you have no idea. Invaders from another world? Harbingers of future terror? A fragment of another universe, fading into our own above reasonably priced lunch meat? Maybe any. Maybe all. Maybe none. But here is what I do know. The lights are, among other things, a part of my memory, and a part of my marriage, and a part of my love. They are a piece of my past, and I don’t need to understand them to understand that. Ladies and gentlemen the past is here. And it’s about a hundred feet above the Arby’s. (111)

The City Council would like to remind you about the tiered heavens, and the hierarchy of angels. The reminder is that you should not know anything about this. The structure of heaven and the angelic organizational chart are privileged information, known only to City Council members on a need to know basis. Please to do not speak to or acknowledge any angels that you may come across while shopping at the Ralphs or at the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex. They only tell lies, and do not exist. Report all angels sightings to the City Council for treatment. (1)

The City Council would like to remind you about the tiered heavens, and the hierarchy of angels. The reminder is that you still should not know anything about this. The structure of heaven and the angelic organizational chart are still privileged information. Also, angels aren’t real. “I really get tired of having to say this,” a City Council representative said to a group of disgruntled angels. “Angels aren’t real. They just aren’t.” The angels became unruly and were dispersed by a thunderclap from heaven. (25)

The City Council would like to remind you about the tiered heavens and the hierarchy of angels. The reminder is the Council is grumpy that all of this is not forbidden knowledge, but due to the new laws, they are required to inform you that the angels have made all of that information available. Stop by the house where the angels live if you want to pick up a free packet outlining exactly how all of that is organized. While the packet itself is free, it is likely the angels will ask to borrow five dollars. They tend to do that. (111)

Speaking of the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex, its owner, Teddy Williams, reports that he has found the entrance to a vast, underground city in the pin retrieval area of lane 5. He said he has not yet ventured into it, merely peered down at its strange spires and broad avenues. He also reports voices of a distant crowd in the depths of that subterranean metropolis. Apparently the entrance was discovered when a bowling ball accidentally rolled into it, clattering down to the city below with sounds that echoed for miles across the impossibly huge cavern. So, you know, whatever population that city has, they know about us now and we might be hearing from them very soon. (1)

Word is in about a disturbance at the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex. There has been the sound of chanting and machinery from under the pin retrieval area of lane five, and Teddy Williams has changed all the bowlers’ names on the electronic scorecards to “THEY ARE HERE”. This is causing some confusion and has completely ruined Jeremy Godfrey's 50th birthday party, which had rented out a few lanes for the afternoon. Jeremy was last seen drinking a light beer out of a plastic cup, shaking his head sadly as he swished the liquid around and looking out the window at the sky, mostly void, partially stars. Teddy Williams was last seen howling, commanding his militia to surround the pin retrieval area and prepare for an attack. (25)

Over at the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex, Teddy Williams, its owner, reported the startling news that there is nothing under the pin retrieval area of lane 5. As you may remember, there has been a tiny city of warlike people under the bowling alley for several years now, which has caused some trouble, although not a lot of trouble, because they were very tiny people. But now there is just a hole in the earth under the pin retrieval area, an empty space containing only my own memories of a night that someone I loved almost died before I had a chance to truly love him. So good riddance to whatever that town was. (111)

Carlos, perfect and beautiful, came into our studios during the break earlier but declined to stay for an interview. He had some sort of blinking box in his hand covered with wires and tubes. Said he was testing the place for materials. I don’t know what materials he meant, but that box sure whistled and beeped a lot. When he put it close to the microphone, it sounded like, well, like a bunch of baby birds had just woken up. Really went crazy. Carlos looked nervous. I’ve never seen that kind of look on someone with that strong of a jaw. He left in a hurry. Told us to evacuate the building, but then, who would be here to talk sweetly to all of you out there. (1)

I arrived at the parking lot to find Carlos, perched on the trunk of his car in flannel and jeans, his perfect hair mussed, his perfect teeth hidden. “What is it?” I said. “What danger are we in? What mystery needs to be explored?” He shook his head. “Nothing,” he said. “After everything that happened...I just wanted to see you.” My heart leapt. My heart soared. My heart, metaphorically, performed a number of aerial activities, and, literally, it began beat hard. (25)

Carlos, perfect and beautiful, came into our studios during the break earlier, and we ate lunch together out of Tupperwares. He had some sort of blinking box in his hand covered with wires and tubes. When he put it close to the microphone, it sounded like, well, like a bunch of baby birds had just woken up. Really went crazy. He asked if I remembered it. He had brought it by on the first day we had met. He had told me that it tested for materials, but he wasn’t actually sure what materials it tested for. He had just wanted an excuse to come by and talk to me. “Anyway,” he said, “I thought it was a nice memento. Back when we were fumbling awkwardly toward this life we share.” “But,” he added, “it’s a real instrument that is detecting some actual materials of some kind, so there is a good chance that everything about this studio is deeply dangerous. Please be careful.” (111)

Settling in to be another clear and pretty evening here in Night Vale. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with, or at least good memories of when you did. Good night, listeners. Good night. (1)

We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: we don’t understand even more. Good night, Night Vale. Good night. (25)

Settling in to be another clear and pretty evening here in Night Vale, this weird, weird town. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with. I know I do. Good night, listeners. Good night. (111)

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boncorner · 4 years ago

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HUMAN HERMES ADHD HEADCANONS

TYPE :

Hyperactive-Impulsive ADHD

DIAGNOSIS :

Has been diagnosed since early age, for all his father's flaws, he could tell this was one hyperactive child.

MEDICATION :

Has tried many different medications but decided on methylphenidate in the end, since the immediate effect worked best for his lifestyle.

THERAPY :

Has received therapy throughout his life and still sees a psychologist who specialises in the condition every now and then, but he often cancels on them since he feels like he's got no need for it anymore.

FIXATIONS :

Has more past interests than Aphrodite had lovers. Here's a list of things he's fallen in love with at some point then just kinda continued on enjoying but never really mastered because he found something new :

And a short list of things he never gets tired of ever because they're his eternal fixations :

Running | Animal care | Horseback Riding | Astrology | Gambling (more on that later)

STIMMING :

√ Body

Can't sit still, always on the go, drumming his fingers or hands against a surface or humming to a tune that isn't playing anywhere. He'll also occasionally make his own sound effects, like shwoop, clang, bang, pa-chah!

Mainly stims using his feet; tapping, kicking, switching weight from one foot to the other, jumping, rocking back and forth. He'll also play with his piercings, like the smiley right below his lip, or softly spinning his nose piercing while he's thinking.

√ Jewellery

Has jewellery that's subtly designed to work as stim-toys, like dangling earrings or chains with parts which you can spin or flick. At first he thought it a little overkill, but it really does help him focus on what he's doing when he's making a trade or studying somebody's pokerface.

√ Wings

If your human Hermes has wings a la reincarnation or some other fun flavour, he could also ruffle the feathers or stretch them subconsciously every now and again.

PROCESSING :

√ Thoughts

His mind runs faster than most people's do, and he can get frustrated when others aren't understanding what he's talking about, when he's really jumped ahead of the conversation by like 4 steps and the other doesn't even know what happened at step 2 or 3, or what topic they're on. It can almost feel like time travelling sometimes! Where most of what actually happened is still stuck in Hermes' head, and you just can't get him to share it because how do you not Know This already??

He's also prone to getting distracted mid-conversation and interrupt you with his own thoughts on something, or to throw something in that he Just thought about, which will later feed his RSD (see later)

√ Speech

If you speak too slowly or don't get to the point fast enough, you also risk causing him understimulation fatigue, and he'll get antsy and restless, or even bored and tired. More often than not he'll end up losing track of your conversation, start thinking about his own thing, then realise you're still talking and he has no idea what you're talking About and Oh No time to Bullshit his way outta this one!

That, or he's already started talking about something completely different out of nowhere like how water isn't actually wet or something.

The risk of speaking to him also of course comes with the risk of his brain just deciding to Not Process That Right Now, and he might have to act like he totally knew what you were saying but really it all sounded like complete gibberish.

Also sort of on the topic but needless to mention he speaks very quickly and will sometimes almost run the conversation all on his own, and occasionally stumbles on his words and has to let out a little Bluh while sticking out his tongue til he finds his words again.

✓ Sound

He's pretty good with sound and loves a good beat, and turning up the volume way high, but low repetitive noises are his enemy, and they will completely throw off his focus when he's trying to do something. The sound of a dog barking a bit away over and over every 3 minutes is driving him mad, and the soft ticking of a clock is throwing off his thoughts something insane. Talking in another room might make him unable to think clearly, and writing and listening at the same time is just Not happening.

√ Touch

He comes across as really inviting and friendly, but he doesn't like being touched unless it's on his conditions and his conditions alone. He can initiate hugs, but if you suddenly go for him without him being totally for it, he might panic like a bird being grabbed by a big hand. Just like with a bird, you need to show him what you're about to do next. He may seem hasty and wild, but he's really more delicate and alert.

Worth mentioning is also clothes, he loves loose fitting yet stylish outfits, and you can notice him fidget and twist when he's wearing things just a little too stiff or fancy.

√ Sight + Smells

He's fine with most lights and smells, save if he's overstimulated of course.

ADDICTION (TW: Drugs)

Addiction is a Problem when you have ADHD, especially when it turns out to be a way to self-medicate if you don't have the means to do so yourself. While he does have these means, he's slipped into gambling (slot machines, dice and cards are his favourites), mild drug use (pills mostly), smoking (with the help of Charon), as well as those damn energy drinks...

Auctions are also dangerous cough... And buying things you don't actually need. But the worst one is the rush of stealing. When he's feeling down or stresses about money, taking something valuable makes him feel more in control, giving him a rush and a spur of confidence. You'll sometimes find outfits in his wardrobe that just don't match his bank account...

RSD [Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria]

He may seem cool and aloof, but he overthinks everything you say about him. His family says he talks too much? Now he'll ask you if he should shut up, apologise for going on tangents, and stop himself in the middle of talking about something he loves because he caught himself talking "too much". You tell him one thing in the wrong tone of voice, and he'll laugh it off, then go home and spiral into the dark abyss of "I guess I'm an annoying piece of shit and they actually hate me haha". It also works against him that his impulsivity makes him blurt out things that he ends up regretting down the line.

#hermes #hades #hades game #hades supergiant #hermes hades #hermes (hades)#hades human au #art tag #bon ponders #adhd

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maddie-grove · 3 years ago

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Little Book Review: Help at Any Cost

Author: Maia Szalavitz.

Publication Date: 2006.

Genre: Nonfiction.

Premise: Szalavitz examines the history of "tough love" programs for teens, from their super-shady roots in the encounter-group movement of the 1960s, to their track record of abusing and sometimes killing teens in the 1970s-2000s, to the legal challenges they started to face towards the turn of the century. She also recommends better ways to help troubled teens, such as not treating them like dirt and getting them actual, evidence-based psychological help when they need it.

Thoughts: Three quotes come to mind. First, from Holes by Louis Sachar:

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.

That was what some people thought.

Second, from blue-beetle (maybe):

If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.

Third, from Dear Prudence of yesteryear Emily Yoffe, to the concerned mother of a teen boy with a thing for dishwashing gloves:

[Dr. Martin] Kafka says your son needs a complete psychological workup. ... To find the right therapist, Kafka recommends contacting the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers—not because your son is or will be an abuser, but because these professionals are knowledgeable about paraphilias.

People just lose their ever-loving minds when it comes to unruly teenagers. It's understandable, to a degree. Teens are at a developmental stage where emotions are volatile and impulse control is a light suggestion. Some of them also become incredibly strong overnight and/or develop the ability to insult adults with uncanny accuracy. Add to this the serious repercussions for teens (especially those who aren't rich or white) who perform poorly in school or get into legal trouble. It's no wonder parents freak out sometimes. Yet, to let your child be treated with less kindness than a stray dog, or to endanger their long-term physical, mental, social, or financial well-being in order to "fix" behavior in the short term, often while forking over a small fortune without questioning the motives of the people who run the program? It's hard for me to wrap my head around, but Szalavitz describes a waning yet widespread industry that gets parents to do just that, often with the approval of courts and insurance companies.

My prior knowledge of "tough-love" programs came mostly from fiction, plus the odd half-remembered magazine expose. Wilderness boot camps seem to fare better in fiction than other kinds of programs (see the Lifetime Original Movie Augusta, Gone; Wendelin Van Draanen's Wild Bird; and a particularly chilling but under-discussed plot point in 13 Reasons Why). This seems concerning, given that these kind of programs can so easily go wrong due to the already-risky conditions. Other stories, notably "The Pelican Bar" by Karen Joy Fowler and Boot Camp by Todd Strasser, read like the authors had Help at Any Cost open on their desks while they were writing. None of these works fully capture the insidious way these companies work on parents, though, or the devastating long-term effects on many teens.

The really scary thing about this book is that, while there are a few parents who had an extremely distorted and negative view of their child before encountering any of these programs, many more got tricked and intimidated into thinking that this was the only way to save their children from a life of drug addiction and premature death...even if the child in question was a sweet-natured thirteen-year-old whose most subversive act was wanting to accessorize like Madonna in 1985, or a college student who managed to hold down a job while making good grades but sometimes smoked pot in the late 1970s. Now that's Kafka-esque. Maybe even Dr. Martin Kafka-esque.

Hot Goodreads Take: One largely positive review calls the book "a bit of a biased account." I think the bias they're talking about is that Szalavitz clearly thinks these places are bad.

#I heard about this book from forthegothicheroine #so thank you to her it was great!#little book review #maia szalavitz #help at any cost #child abuse for ts

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kaylathekittykat225 · 5 years ago

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Mama Drake // Tim Drake!Robin x Reader

Warning/s: Um...angst? Sorta? I don’t know

Word Count: 3,385

Back again, oh yeah, you know, writing this kinda stuff before a paper that I need to write, if we just pretend the paper doesn’t exist, I don’t have to write it, right? By the way, your last name in this will be Buteo, which is the Genus name for the Red-Tailed Hawk, just and FYI.

Here’s my Masterlist.

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You know, working with the Young Justice team was awesome: the training helped you in great leaps and bounds that especially with your training under Hawk Girl, your social life grew faster and stronger around the team than the people you knew as Y/N and you felt pretty cool running around with the alias Red-Tail.

But working with the Young Justice League was not so great. At least, Batman's sidekick wasn't so great.

Every move you made, he criticized you.

You jumped in front of a bullet for him, he'd yell at you.

You sweat a little less than he does, he'd scream at you.

You ate the wrong kind of cereal, he'd flip. Yeah that one happened before.

What the heck did you even do?! Every time you asked Hawk Girl, she always gave you some convoluted beating around the bush.

Right now you were just sitting happily on the kitchen counter in the base, this place being your home when Hawk Girl dropped you off to live here. You sat with a bowl of frosted flacks held in the center of your crossed legs, your eyes watching a fly fly around the kitchen, landing on random places and then flying off again.

A huge crash came from the main room, the fly jolting away to another room in the compound and you leaning over your bowl to see down the hallway.

"Get back here!" Nightwing's voice shouted down the hallway, his almost silent footsteps to your ears matched another pair at a much quicker pace.

"Wallace?" The younger flash had been a quick one to introduce himself when you first joined the team before he retired.

"Red-Tail! Grab him!" Hopping off the counter, you stepped into the doorway of the kitchen and looked down the hallway, not knowing what to expect until you were sliding backwards across the floor.

"Whoa! That was totally crash!" You finally caught a glimpse of the white and red blob that had run you over. His brown hair looked almost as red as Wally's, that is, it looked like a dog tried styling his hair with his tongue, shooting in twenty different directions. A yellow visor was slipped over his wide eyes, but they didn't block the surprise at seeing you.

"Yes, you did totally crash into me." It took some getting used to when you finally came here to understand everyone's slang, Nightwing was the worst, half of his words did were cut up ones of other words you barely knew already.

His face split into a happy grin, quickly standing up and using his speed to pull you up just as fast. "No, crash means...wait, Mama Dr-" His eyes widened and the next thing to you knew, you were back on your butt with a bleeding nose.

"Ow!" You screeched in pain, your cry causing the people in the room to recoil in pain.

"What have we said about you using that!" Robin's obviously annoyed voice screamed at you, his voice higher than normal, making it obvious he couldn't really hear himself speak with his pained ears.

As much as you wanted to shout back at him, you didn't.

You just didn't.

"Robin, Red-Tail, quit your bickering." You pinched your nose tightly as you looked over to Nightwing, he was holding onto the rouge speedster by the scruff of his uniform like a puppy.

<<<>>>

"Here, Bart, you must have worked up a thirst coming from the future like that." You and Beast Boy looked away from the speedster to see your leader walking into a room with a glass of water in his hand.

Garfield, whom wasn't the brightest grape on the vine introduced himself to you by name the first time you met him, was helping you clean up the blood that was still dripping from your bruised nose.

And Robin had yet to apologize for smacking you in the face with his Bo Staff. But you couldn't really complain because he did manage to shut off the electrical current in the staff before it struck you.

"Oh, well thanks." The speedster, who you now knew was named Bartholomew Allen, similar to Garfield, wouldn't shut up about being Barry Allen's grandson, who was the Flash, another person you now knew the identity of. Give him five more minutes and you'll know who Batman was, and no one knew who he was.

As he was downing the water, his eyes opened once again quickly as he smiled cheekily up at Nightwing, who looked concerned by the speedster's smile. "Oh, I get it. DNA sample. And you need my spit." He then promptly spits back into the cup. "Ha, that is such a Dick Grayson move."

Robin next to you instantly tensed up and looked over to his mentor, the white lenses of his mask were wide with surprise. "How did--"

"See, I know stuff only a future boy would know! Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Garfield Logan," Bart paused and looked at you before he smiled even wider, almost happy to see you. "And Y/N Buteo, although it's been a long time since you've used that name!" Bart's voice sped by and quieted down before he could go on about you.

"Your name is Tim? And yours is...Dick?" Garfield almost cringed next to you as he said Nightwing's name.

"Opps, spoilers." Bart turned his head away, muttering to himself, "Well, it was a pleasure to meet you all in your fighting prime, now if you'll excuse me, buh bye!" He stood up with wave, his hands and feet now free of the hand restraints and sped over to you. "Bye Mama Drake! Love you!"

Your mouth dropped open, staring down at him with wide eyes, "Wh-what!" But he left the compound before you could ask him further.

Robin and Nightwing turned to the computer and began chattering about how to catch him, and calling up someone, leaving you in your own world.

Mama Drake??

You're not a duck, you were a Hawk, obviously since your mom was...

Looking over at Robin, you were replaying what Bart said over and over in your head.

Garfield Logan. You knew that one already.

Dick Grayson, name probably derived from Richard, but that's nothing clicking in your mind.

Tim...probably Timothy, but his last name, Timothy Dra...Drake.

If your mouth could drop any lower, it did.

No...no!

You could feel the cereal slowly rising up your throat. "I think I'm going to be sick." Muttering with your hand pressed to your mouth, you ran from the main room and towards your own, running away from the sudden knowledge following you.

<<<>>>

Mama Drake.

Mama, mama means mother figure.

Drake.

Drake. Bird, duck. Robin's last name.

Tim Drake...

Mama Drake.

Oh gods of the Falcons, help me...

You have been curled up and leaning up against the wall for the past three hours, your hands pulling endlessly at your H/C hair. All that's been going through your mind was what Bart told you.

Wait. What if you were just over thinking this? He couldn't have meant that. Obviously, what were you thinking? What the heck could you be thinking? You were just jumping to assumptions, he seemed to have a fast mouth.

"I will just speak with him! That is what I will do!" Your confidence was wavering, but you still walked into the main compound room, searching for some sign of the newest speedster.

"Red-Tail," And your confidence was gone. You slowly turned to the voice, with a rosy hue running across your cheeks and the base of your neck.

"Ye-yes Robin?" You didn't want to have this conversation for a plethora of reasons, and yet here you were.

"Nightwing wants to see you in the kitchen." He barely looked at you and then turned away to the direction he came from. "Seemed pretty urgent."

After changing your course of direction as well as your confidence, you arrived in the kitchen and met the white lenses of your leader who was leaning up against the metal fridge. "Red-Tail, good to know you're alive. You kinda disappeared on us once Impulse left, thought you mighta gone after him."

"I...I was not feeling well so I returned to my room. But I am feeling much better now." You bowed your head in apology, thinking only of how you need to get to Bart...wherever he was.

"Hmm, well I needed to talk to you about you and Robin." Even hearing his name now made you a blushing mess. "We have a new mission and it's a duo mission. I'm opting for you and Robin to do this, since you seemed to be the most adept in this kind of mission."

"Um...Nightwing, you are a phenomenal leader and all, but...Robin and I do not appear to be very compatible with each other around the compound, much less so on a mission. I just do not want to jeopardize a mission if we do not appear to see eye to eye." The twiddling of your thumbs should have been a dead giveaway that the idea was an uncomfortable one for you.

"I know, Robin's already said basically the same thing, but we need your two levels of expertise in the arena." Sighing, you didn't answer right away, yes, you were going to say yes, but you mulled it over in your head whether this was a good idea. "Red-Tail I need-" Nightwing kept talking but something in your mind had shifted and you felt your body was no longer under your control.

Your mind screamed at you to talk, shout, scream for help, move, but you couldn't.

Your mind was shutting down.

Your body was falling, and there was nothing you could do about it.

<<<>>>

"Red-Tail, Red-Tale wake up." Groaning, you slowly opened your eyes to be welcomed into a dark room.

As you looked around the room, you saw that you were not in a room, but somewhere what seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Continuing to look around you finally saw the head that was hanging over you, "Robin?"

"Bout time you woke up."

"Well good morning to you too, sunshine." You sat up, groaning at the cramping of your stomach, it felt like you had spent ten hours doing only ab workouts. "Where are we?"

Robin shook his head in answer, his focus mostly on his watch that was telling him there was no connection where he was. "I would love to know that too." He grumbled back, throwing his hands in the air to emphasize his distaste for the current situation.

"Last thing I remember was...Nightwing was telling me the two of us were being sent in a mission, is this it?"

"Well why the heck would he send us on a mission is we don't have any clue what the mission is?!"

"Okay okay." You held your hand up in surrender, standing to your feet to try and find something out. "I will fly to see what I can." Large bird of prey wings materialized behind you, and you were then in the air, the large red tipped wings lifted you into the air and high above the ground below with a grumbling Robin.

Looking around in the dark wasn't as good an idea as you had thought, even with your night vision turned on. Before you could see anything, something shot at you. A red ball of light barrelled towards you, giving you enough time to stop it from hitting you directly. What it did hit was your wing.

Pain was everywhere.

Your wing was blackened and singed, the once brown feathers were now gone, showing the tender and raw skin beneath. Falling from the height you were at hurt your back, you were surprised it wasn't broken.

"Red-Tail!" A voice called out to you as you shakily stood up, their slippery footsteps to your right confirmed their movement towards you. "What happened up there?"

Robin began looking at your wing, his cool glove feeling both painful and soothing when he touched you. "I do not know, something shot me down before I could see anything."

Slowly and very painfully you pulled your wings flush to your back and they morphed back into the sleeves of your jacket where they hid during when your wings weren't needed. "Well I guess that confirms that we aren't alone here."

Nodding, you followed next to him as they walked forward, the both of you holding onto hope that there was a way out if this.

<<<>>>

"Okay, next time Nightwing tells us we are going on a duo mission, just at no!" You were yelling at Robin while the two of you fought off wave after wave of oncoming clones.

The sun hadn't even risen and the two of you were as food as dead. The one thing, ONE thing you've been above to say you found out about this place is that there were clones of the Justice League everywhere you turned. You knew they were clones the minute you stabbed Superman's arm and circuits and wires crackled beneath the fake skin.

"I've taken down at least 3 Batmans so far, he would be proud of me." You heard Robin groan behind you, and you couldn't stop the chuckle slipping past your lips.

For a second you turned your eyes to look at him, seeing him masterfully fighting off a Wonder Woman and Green Lantern at the same time, while you had both Hawk Girl and Hawk Man on your tail.

You had tried many times to before to try reasoning with the clones, but they had no sense of who you were. They fought you as though the fate of the world depended on it. "We really need to ask Nightwing what kind of a mission he thought this was!"

"I second that! We deserve a raise or something!" You shouted back, grunting at the mace brushing your fore arm.

"I say burgers! I know a place!"

"It's a date!" A smile pulled at your lips at the thought of you calling it a date, Bart's words ringing one more time.

Mama Drake.

"Hey, Tim, I have to tell-" A sharp pain stopped your words, your ears slowly began to ring.

Dark eyes stared you down, the eyes of your mentor and best friend, Hawk Girl, a snarl present on her lips.

"No!" Another sharp pain sliced through your abdomen again, the slicing of your stomach the only prominent noise as she pulled a sword out of you. Where did the sword come from?

Your body began to sway back and forth before you feel down, your knees collapsing as you fell to meet the sand below. Warm arms pulled you close to an equally warm and slightly sweaty body before you could touch the ground.

"No, Red-Tail." Robin's voice was unusually soft towards you, it's been growing softer of the past few hours the two of you had been isolated together. "You're gonna be...wow that's really bad."

You chuckled at the young teenager's excuse at trying to comfort you, his own horror setting in before he could finish his thought. "Finish the mission, Tim." Your voice was hoarse as you said his name, glad you got to know the other half of the emotionless Robin, even if it was but his name.

"Not without you, Hawk Girl will kill me if I let you due."

"Looks like she got to me first." Your eyes grew heavy as your breathing shortened and quickened under the stress if your body.

"Hey, hey stay with me."

"Tim, turn arou-" Your voice gave out before you could tell Tim to fight off the Wonder Woman behind him, your eyes shutting down and your mind going dark.

<<<>>>

Air suddenly filled your lungs and you sat up chocking on the influx of oxygen. "She's awake." A familiar motherly voice filled your ears before gentle hands found their way to your cheeks.

Looking up, you met familiar dark eyes as the eyes that had moments who sent a knife through your stomach. A frightened screech left your mouth, you were confused and scared as you scooted yourself away from your mentor, her warm hands leaving your face.

"Y/N, it's me." Her voice. The ones that belonged to the person who killed you.

But you weren't dead.

You were perfectly fine. It all was just...just a dream?

Slowly you looked up to the winged woman you know as your mentor and mother figure, your eyes finally met hers. This Hawk Girl was your Hawk Girl. "H-Hawk Girl?"

"It's me, Y/N. It's me." You released a shaky breath and rubbed your face harshly with your hands.

"How did...what just..."

"Y/N!" A third voice cried out, drawing you to notice that you weren't alone. Batman, Nightwing and M'gann were all crowded around a second metal table with a struggling Robin. "Where's Y/N?!"

"Tim." Whispering you slid your legs over the edge of the metal table and stepping over to the table. "Tim." You spoke with much more fervour and volume, your steps slow as you approached the other table.

"Y/N!" Tim met you in the middle, pulling your body close to his own. "I thought you were...I saw you...you were dead!" You tried pulling yourself away from him, but he wouldn't let go. He had you right where he needed you to be.

"Robin, Red-Tail. You need to know." M'gann floated to the two of you, you moved your head to see her, but your grip never loosened on the boy in your arms. "Nightwing, your mentors and I all agreed that you two needed to undergo one of the team training mind simulations. We just...I didn't think it would affect either of you. Robin...you...wait where are you two going?" Robin pulled you from the room, M'gann and the others calling behind you.

"Robin," Your voice meek as you watch him gently tug you behind him, leading you to a quieter part of the compound.

Once he pushed the door closed behind him, Tim turned back around and stared at you, or at least you think he was staring. He stared at you for a few seconds more before he pulled you close to him again, hugging you even tighter than when you last hugged him.

"I thought I lost you." He murmured into your hair, his fingers pulling through your H/C hair. You pulled away from where you kept your face hidden in his shoulder to stare up at him.

"Why...why are you being so nice to me?" You questioned his sudden change in demeanor, especially in such a short time. "I...I guess I don't mind? But really, why?"

"Honestly, it was watching you get shot out of the sky. I saw you falling and I just...something clicked. I don't know what it was, but I feel...so different." A shiver ran down your back as his hands moved to rest under your chin, gently tilting your head upwards, allowing him to see your face fully. "And watching you die...I snapped."

You didn't let him finish before you raised your height ever so slightly on your tiptoes to kiss him.

Tim kissed you back as soon as you began it, swiping his finger across your jaw. You left your arms around his waist, hooking your hands together as if to tether the two of you close. He said he was afraid of letting you go, but you couldn't stop the ache in your chest when you watch Winder Woman attack him from behind.

Pulling back, you hummed happily before smiling up at him. "You remember Bartholomew from this morning?"

He chuckled at your question, twirling a piece of hair around his finger, "Of course I do, he caused a heck of a lot of trouble over in Central City."

"Well, when he got loose he um...he said something to me. He told me as he was rushing out, 'Love you, Mama Drake'." Tim's eyes seemed to shrink as he mulled the words, either thinking of thanking or murdering the brunette speedster.

"As in..." Your smile was answer enough, "Well then, I'm glad the troublemaker showed up." The two of you started laughing before Tim leaned down again to capture your lips

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The Supplier - In Exodus

Type : Oneshot (Part of The In Exodus Series) // Angst // Fluff // Smut // Cartel!au

Warnings : none

Author Note : FINALLY WE HAVE AN UPDATE !! I’m not going to lie, I’m super insecure about this because it’s been so long and I’m just second guessing everything, so feedback would just be really helpful to my soul sksksksks... I hope you enjoy lovelies !!

Everything had gone to plan for Kyungsoo. He’d achieved everything he had wanted to, accomplished all of his goals. He lived contently, sharing his modest farm only with a Border Collie named Hailey; a few chickens; horses and cows. Being the town of Exodus’ lead supplier of milk and eggs was always something he was proud of. Being the lead supplier for one of the biggest drug cartels in the country… less so.

No one suspected the sweet, quiet man; who rides into town with crates of produce and his dog smiling out of his truck, as being the root of all evil that plagues the once quiet town of Exodus.

Kyungsoo doesn’t like to talk about it. Pretending he’s nothing more than a simple farmer is a lot easier than facing the realities of his chosen life. Because that’s the harsh truth of it - he chose this. When an old friend came to him with the idea, he didn’t even consider turning it down; but now more than half of the town was riddled with crime; drugs ran through the streets like candy and cartels from all over the country were constantly fighting to come and get a taste.

Living so far out of town, isolated on the farm wasn’t just good for business, but also for maintaining his ignorance.

---

At 5:30 am sharp the roosters start crowing, forcing Kyungsoo awake from his slumber so he can get ready to start the day. Hailey is already in the kitchen waiting for her breakfast when he sleepily makes his way downstairs, rubbing the dust away from his eyes with the sleeve of his sweater.

“Okay Hailey, I’m here I’ll get your food,” the fluffy bundle of excitement bounced around at the sound of Kyungsoo pouring some of her kibble in a bowl, before getting himself some cereal. They mirror each other, as the pair sit and devour their meals.

It’s a Sunday, which means that it’s time for Kyungsoo to swallow his pride and go check on the supply. 6 days out of the week he can pretend that there’s nothing there; the back fields are empty and he has no business wandering back there; and thanks to cameras Chanyeol had installed, it didn’t hinder the business at all. Except for Sundays. Sundays Kyungsoo has to take the trek across the farm and take stock.

He delays as much as he can; taking extra care in tending to the animals for the morning. Mucking out the stables till they were pristine; making sure each individual hen was alright and collecting their eggs. By the time it comes to feeding, Hailey is impatiently dashing back and forth across the grounds.

“I know you like the walk Hailey, but I’m busy right now….. Don’t look at me like that, I’m not wasting time…. Okay maybe I am wasting a little time but c’mon…” The big dark saucers staring up innocently at Kyungsoo finally get’s him to relent; putting away the last of the feed and reluctantly walking to the back fields.

With each step Kyungsoo tosses away the willful ignorance he maintains for the rest of the week; he’s forced to take a look at what he’s become, what he’s apart of - whether he likes what he sees or not.

Hailey runs ahead on the path, stopping to sniff around the neighbouring plants to the ‘fields of evil’ as Kyungsoo likes to call them. She chases the birds and bathes in the warmth of the sun while Kyungsoo does his weekly check; ignoring the huffs and puffs that fall from her owners lips, used to his disdain but blissfully naive as to why anyone could hate such a beautiful part of the land.

“I wish I had your life Hailey,” Soo sighs, watching how his only company lounges so carelessly in the grass, completely innocent as to what the two were doing. “It’s all good here pup, let’s head back now okay?”

The walk back is far more enjoyable for Kyungsoo; being able to reattach the armor of denial to his soul as he, quite literally, puts his dealings behind him. The wind blew against his face in a way that feels like it’s washing the sin away from his face.

Don’t misunderstand, Kyungsoo has no issue with the drug itself. It’s natural; it’s relatively harmless; it’s good business, especially for someone like him. The real problem lies in the consequences his little business venture had had on the town he had once loved so much. It became infected with greed and want and impulsivity.

If people didn’t want a hit, they wanted in on the money. Kyungsoo’s tailor made euphoria had attracted other cartels from across the country, all wanting a piece of the action; a cut of the profits; control of the territory.

Exodus quickly replaced all the families, young and old, with groups of rowdy wannabees and snakes. The few innocents left lived as secondary concerns to the drugs. Police were swamped. Gangs grew more dangerous. People either lived in fear of violence or withdrawal.

It was all Kyungsoo’s fault. That’s how he felt at least. As the supplier, he had brought this on Exodus. He had opened Pandora’s box and now all he could do was hide out at the farm and pretend for 6 days a week that he was nothing but a simple farmer.

---

Breaking the usual peaceful silence Kyungsoo is accustomed to, a gleeful laugh fills the air, knocking Soo out of his thoughts and immediately putting him on guard. Rounding the corner at the edge of the stables, grabbing the nearest weapon (shovel) he can find, Kyungsoo takes slow steps towards the noise.

No one comes to the farm, especially uninvited, even his own members make sure to call first. A million thoughts race through his mind. Who is it? The police? A member of a rival group? Someone trying to steal a bag and get high? He’s been warned about a group called MX trying to make advances in Exodus as of late - could they have found him already?

“Oh you’re such a good girl huh, You can’t eat my hair though that’s where I draw the line,” The closer Kyungsoo got to where the horses were, the louder the sounds grew.

“What are you doing?”

Startled by his presence, you jump away from the spotted horse your were chatting to.

“Oh sorry, I-”

“What are you doing here?” Kyungsoo takes a tentative step forward, hand gripping the shovel tightly, unsure if he would actually go through with using it.

“I just saw the horses and-”

“You came up here? No one comes here.” His voice remained stoic and firm, making you feel uncomfortable with the growing tension. You didn’t have bad intentions, but he didn’t know that.

“Oh...really? But why, it’s so pretty here,” when his expression doesn’t change at your attempt to lighten the mood, you clear your throat start stuttering out an explanation. “I uh...I just saw the horses from the road and uh…”

“You need to leave.”

His eyes flicker back and forth between your own and the hem of your yellow dress dancing in the wind around your knees. The crease between his brows deepening with every passing second you remained still in front of him.

But before you can shrink away from his intimidating gaze and leave; Hailey comes running to your feet, bouncing up on her hind legs trying to coax your attention away from her owner. When you immediately drop to your knees and endulge the pup, Kyungsoo lets himself relax a little and release a deep sigh. He’s pretty certain that you’re nothing more than a harmless tourist who had naively wandered up to the farm, clearly enchanted by the animals; but he has a quarter bag full of product in his jacket pocket and even the thought of you finding out makes his palms sweat.

“Look..” his voice wavers watching the way you fuss and fawn over Hailey, and for some reason he feels an unfamiliar twinge against his ribs. “I’ve got lots to do today, I..I’m sorry but you’re going to have to leave.”

“Of course, I’m sorry for intruding,” standing up straight, you brush away the stray hairs flying into your face and start taking backwards steps away, “I..It really is a beautiful farm by the way!” Before you turn and move completely out of sight, you send Soo a shy wave goodbye, hoping that he wasn’t as upset as he looked at your presence.

---

Later that night, Kyungsoo tries to wash away the guilt he’s grown used to feeling after those weekly visits to the back fields. He showers and washes the debris out of his hair; brushing his teeth, trying to remove the bitter taste of regret from his mouth. All the while thinking of you…

How did she even get up here? No one’s come up here for so long, let alone someone as pretty as her…

“What..” His thoughts are interrupted by Hailey’s huffing across the room, “Don’t give me that look..” The pup tilts her head in apparent judgement, looking up at Soo with her big doe eyes. “I was just thinking about changing the horses feed this season… that’s all…”

---

A few days pass and eventually Kyungsoo is able to forget about the strange girl who had wandered onto his farm and had been occupying his thoughts. He’d returned to the quiet, peaceful, reclusive life he had grown comfortable with.

Walking down the muddy pathway back towards the farm, Hailey trailing along at his ankles and a pair of empty milk crates thrown haphazardly into a wheelbarrow being dragged behind them; Kyungsoo wipes the sweat from the side of his face against his shirt.

Wednesdays are delivery days. He gathers all the courage he can muster; puts on a brave face and heads into town. If it wasn’t for the constant reminders of all the damage his little side business had done to Exodus, maybe he would actually enjoy these visits. But of course he doesn’t.

In the distance, Hailey spots you first; fiddling with your fingers and nervously rocking on the heels of your feet against the farm’s gate; chewing your bottom lip till it was swol.

“Hey! I’ve been waiting here for hours, I thought I’d missed you,” excitedly you run up to where Kyungsoo stood in shock at your sudden appearance. A red bow pinning back your hair and slight gloss over your lips, the peach tint to your cheeks illuminated by the golden hour light pouring through the trees above.

“Why are you here?” Cursing at himself for how harsh his words sound, Kyungsoo picks his chin back up and walks straight passed you, calling for Hailey to follow.

“I um.. I just moved into Exodus, you know the town that’s like, that way,” you turn quickly to follow him towards the farm, gesturing back down the road he had just came from.

“Why are you at my farm again?” Though a question, he made no effort to suggest he actually cared for an answer, quickening his steps as if trying to shake you off his tail.

“Exodus isn’t exactly a cheap place to live and I guess I overestimated just how far my savings would stretch,” chuckling nervously as you listen to yourself divulge your financial problems to a near enough stranger, you swallow dryly and run slightly ahead so you can confront him face on, “Look.. I’ve tried everywhere in town and no one is hiring, I remembered you from the other day and I thought maybe you could use some help?”

Kyungsoo watches curiously as you use your body to block his path and wide eyes stare up at him pleadingly; in that moment he feels his resolve melting slightly and allows his mind to indulge in the thought of seeing your face every day, but Hailey nosing at the bottom of his leg soon knocks him out of it, returning him to reality.

“I don’t need any help, sorry.” Once more he tries to walk passed your defeated self, biting back the small voice in his mind begging him to reconsider, but you’re too quick.

“Please! I..I work hard, I promise I won’t be any trouble...and I’m great with animals! I can do whatever you need I…” your outburst startles Soo, your desperation clear from how you start lowering yourself down to beg quite literally, on your hands and knees before him. “I really need this to work out, you’re my last hope…”

The small voice in his mind had grown considerably louder watching your face blush a deep plum colour in embarrassment, fingers interlocked and held out in front of him. ‘Give her a chance!’ ‘You could use the company!’ ‘She seems harmless and sweet, help her!’ But then of course the booming voice of his conscience shouts out reminders of the hidden secrets that the farm hides… could he really risk you getting involved with all that? Did he even want you to know about it? No.

You were the only person in the entire town that was left beautifully untouched by the darkness of EXO. He couldn’t be selfish… could he?

“Fine… come back tomorrow and I’ll see what I can do..”

---

Reluctantly, Kyungsoo kept to his word and the next day when he saw you skipping up the pathway to the farm, he racked his brain for bits and bobs you could help out with.

“Hi!” you wave excitedly when you see Soo walking out towards you, trying to ignore the line buried deep between his brows as he sizes you up. Dressed in cotton shorts and a baggy shirt, you know you must look terrible and you’re hoping that’s the cause of his expression, rather than how you keep showing up disturbing his peace.

“I’m ready to work, what’s first boss?”

---

Over the next few weeks you managed your way around the farm, never seeing too much of Kyungsoo, but managing nonetheless. At first he spent every day by your side, guiding you through every step of what would become your daily chores, making sure you got everything exactly the way he liked it; and then once he was sure you could handle it, he disappeared.

You didn’t mind too much though, the abundance of animal friends you had were more than enough to keep you company - but that didn’t stop you wondering about your allusive new boss.

Sometimes you’d catch a glimpse of him in the distance, working on his own chores with Hailey following closely behind, the same indifferent expression painted on his face. He moved on autopilot, never showing any kind of emotion when he sensed you near, as if he was keeping himself guarded like you could destroy him at any moment. He tended the fields; collected the harvest; made his deliveries before disappearing back into the farm house for the rest of the evening. Whenever you could catch a moment you tried your best to break the tension, cracking jokes and asking questions, anything to get more than five words out of him. You only managed to break his tough exterior a handful of times; your impression of the postman being the one that really got him to smile; before he bashfully retreated back to the cool persona you’d become all too familiar with.

Kyungsoo, still skeptical, kept his eye on you while you were at the farm. The small voice at the back of his mind still not totally convinced you weren’t somehow working with MX; not that you had given any indication whatsoever that you were secretly part of a rival drug cartel that is; he was just being cautious.

Yeah… Cautious… He’s just being cautious when he times up his chores so he can listen to you talking to the cows while you milk them; it’s a cautious chuckle when he watches you get chased around the yard by the chickens when you forget to drop all of the feed from your overall pockets. He’s being especially cautious when he does the books inside the stable office, rather than his kitchen, so he can watch you muck out the paddocks, fall into the bales and stand up with stray strands of hay littered throughout your hair. Kyungsoo is just a cautious guy. If anything he’s being responsible.

And the longer Kyungsoo can keep telling himself those lies, the longer he can go without facing reality. That with every lame joke; blushed cheeks; childlike awe and innocence - he falls more and more for you and there’s nothing he can do to stop it.

---

After a couple more weeks of denial and pining, Kyungsoo decides he’s had enough. He’s determined to knock down a few of the walls he’d built up when the longing to be close to you, talk with you, touch you; all becomes too much.

Before he even rounds the corner he can hear you talking gently with the hens ‘wow you ladies are so good! Look at all these eggs you’ve got for us today!’

“Hey stranger!” you call out, smiling brightly as he slowly makes his way over to you.

“Hey,” Kyungsoo mumbled back, as he sheepishly looked down at the basket of eggs you’d started collecting.

Almost on instinct, Kyungsoo starts putting more eggs into your basket. There’s an awkward silence as Kyungsoo wracks his brain for something, anything to say. Why didn’t he think this far ahead when he decided to do this?

“So…” he starts, you look up immediately in shock that he was actually trying to have a conversation with you, “What brought you to Exodus?”

“My mom died; my dad drank; I left. Same old story…”

You try not to think back on the days before Exodus. Sure, it wasn’t exactly paradise here, but to you anything was better than home. She’d been sick for a while; your mom; she was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma a little over a year ago. The tumor ate away at her body, her soul; taking everything that made her ‘her’ before she passed. When she finally found peace, your father hit rock bottom. He was always a heavy drinker, but when your mom died he just went overboard; and then came the violence. A push here and there turned into a slap, which then turned into a punch. Purple bruises fade to a sickening green under your farm clothes, goodbye presents from him when you decided to leave.

Kyungsoo swallows dryly, immediately regretting opening his mouth, “I-I’m sorry..”

“It’s alright,” you wish he’d look up at you so he could see the gentle smile on your face, maybe then he’d actually believe you. But instead Soo keeps his eyes glued to the eggs, trying to make it as discreet as possible that he’d slowed down his movements, in an attempt to buy enough time for his confidence to show up.

“I like Exodus,” you say, smiling to yourself at the thought of your little flat in town.

“You like Exodus?” he questioned, not meaning for his voice to come out as loud as it did but not really minding too much when you giggle at his reaction.

“Yes! I love it here! The people; the scenery; the animals! How long have you lived here?”

It’s bittersweet for Kyungsoo; thinking back on the memories he has of the farm, of Exodus, before everything good was ruined.

When Kyungsoo was young, he moved into Exodus to live with his Grandmother on the farm. She was a small woman with wispy silver hair and eyes that smiled as bright as the sun. To anyone else she looked as fragile as glass, with a hunched back and frail fingers; but Kyungsoo knew she was strong. Working on the farm alone for years; tending the animals and collecting the harvests; she was a machine against all appearances. She was his favourite person.

She took him in and taught him everything he knows about the farm. If she could only see now what he’d done with his inheritance, he was sure that she’d be rolling in her grave.

“My whole life,” he answered quickly, not wanting to talk to much about the past, afraid it would break down the wall keeping his guilt at bay.

Luckily you saw he was reluctant to speak any more on the subject, quickly dropping any questions that were bubbling up inside of you in favour of drawing out a little more conversation.

“Oh, you must know all the hotspots ‘round town huh? I’ve been here a little over a month already and I still feel like a lot puppy,” you confess, not meaning for it to sound as pathetic as it came out and blushing at the realisation.

“I could show you around,” Soo felt the words race up his throat before he could swallow them down, “I mean if you wanted to…”

“I would love that,” you agreed bashfully, both turning your attention back to the coop of hens that you’d been distracted from.

After another moment of awkward silence, Soo uses up his remaining shreds of courage, “I could.. I could show you the lake tomorrow? It’s my favourite place in town...if you want”

When you glance up to see the blush painting his own cheeks, you no longer try to suppress your growing smile. Nodding along and smiling dumbly, watching Kyungsoo stutter a quiet ‘okay’ before taking the basket of eggs out of your hands and walking away before he throws up with nerves.

---

The next day you arrive at the farm bright and early, ready to work off the butterflies in your stomach that formed at the thought of spending time with Kyungsoo. Would you call it a crush? You suppose so. You find yourself looking for him constantly; feeling nervous when he’s around; yearning for any type of conversation that could tie you over till the next day. Your cheeks are rarely without a rose flush and you’ve lost a few too many ribbons trying to keep your hair somewhat decent throughout the day.

Yes you most definitely had a crush.

You however, were completely oblivious to the fact that Kyungsoo had been secretly harbouring feelings for you too. Not that he had made it obvious in any way that is. The stronger his feelings grew the more closed off he became. To Kyungsoo, you were perfection. The perfect mix of innocence and light, he had never met anyone like you before. He found your habit of talking to the animals adorable; the way you fill silences with bad jokes endearing; the way you weren’t discrete in any way when you watched him with curious eyes, nor when you tried to hide the blush on your cheeks when he looked back.

But you were too good. If anything the time you’d spent together in the last month or so had only proved that. Kyungsoo wanted so badly to keep you away from his life with EXO, to keep himself from falling too hard; but what was the harm in showing you around town a bit? He hadn’t heard you talk much about your life outside of the farm and besides, since having you around everyday it was harder for him to lie about not feeling so lonely.

“Soo!” You yelled out, he loved when you called him that. You waved overhead to further get his attention from across the yard, before running up to him. “I made us lunch, ya know, for the lake,” you let out shyly, holding up a basket filled with goodies.

Kyungsoo was too flustered to give a proper response, instead opting to take the basket from your hands and quietly suggesting the pair of you get going.

“Which, which way is it?” you giggle, watching Kyungsoo’s eyes widen when he realises that he hadn’t made any attempt to move.

“Oh, sorry it’s uh, just this way,”

Hailey watched the pair of you curiously; wagging her tail at the sight of you both stuttering over your words and giggling like nervous teenagers, impatiently waiting for her promised trip to the lake - but when Kyungsoo lets a giggle slip at his own mistake, Hailey quietens her whimpering not minding the wait.

The lake was even more beautiful than Kyungsoo had described; surrounded by trees and flowers blooming every colour of the rainbow. The water was calm and the reflection of the sun glistening on the surface was inviting, the grumbling of your stomach being the only thing stopping you running and jumping straight in.

Hailey ran ahead finding a spot beneath one of the trees, with the pair of you giggling at her excitement, following her lead.

“Let’s eat first shall we?” Soo asked, worried if he waited any longer then his own stomach would start making noises and there was no way he could deal with that embarrassment.

The two of you sat down in the spot Hailey had so kindly picked out, devouring the packed sandwiches and selection of nibbles you’d wrapped. You talk shyly about how beautiful the weather was and how cute Hailey looked rolling around among the flowers. It was an innocent type of awkward. Both hesitant with your words but at the same time not wanting the other to stop talking. Kyungsoo had laughed at the strawberry jam on the side of your lips, wiping it off with his thumb before he could think about it too much. You made him a daisy chain bracelet while he told you all about the latest mystery book he’s reading, not that you were paying too much attention, more focused on securing the frail stems around his wrist. He didn’t mind.

When you both got up to leave, even Hailey wasn’t finished witnessing the cuteness that was your ‘unofficial’ first date. She sprinted at your ankles, making you lose your balance and fall face first into the lake. Kyungsoo was mortified, dropping everything to try and help pull you out - but when you grabbed onto his outstretched hand you couldn’t resist pulling him in with you.

“I can’t believe you just did that!” He yells, the sound of your laughter drowning out his protests. When you don’t stop, head falling back with glee, Kyungsoo splashes the water around you.

“Hey!”

“You pulled me in!”

“Hailey tripped me!”

After a beat of silence, you both erupted into a fit of giggles, splashing and chasing each other around the bank like children high on a sugar rush. It was the most fun Kyungsoo had had in a long time; being able to let himself relax and just be himself with someone, he hoped the moment would never end.

Just as you were about to swim right passed him again Soo reached out to block your path, inadvertently forcing you to crash straight into his chest. He must have let his eyes wander down to the curve of your lips for just a split second, because in the next moment you have your hands placed firmly on his shoulders while your lips gently touch his own.

It takes 5 seconds before you realise that he’s not responding. He’s not responding and you’ve made a terrible mistake. You’re kissing your boss and he’s not doing anything.

“Oh my God…” you push yourself away from him with more force than you intended, letting a wave of water separate the two of you. Bringing your hands up to cover your face, you can’t bring yourself to look at him. “I’m so sorry..” you mumble against the palm of your hand, forcing yourself back to the waters’ edge, pulling yourself up so you can make a clean escape. Unfortunately your foot catches and your slip right back down.

Kyungsoo wants to move to help you. He wants to say something, ask you to stay. To go back in time just 5 minutes and have a do over. But he’s frozen in place, watching you stumble up the bank and grab your things, watching you run back down the path and out of his sight.

When he does finally regain control of his body it’s almost scary how quickly he lashes at the water, cussing under his breath at what he’d just let slip away.

---

Getting out of bed the next morning was torture. The last thing you wanted to do was go to work and have to face Kyungsoo after you’d so badly misread everything yesterday.

Somehow you managed to drag yourself to the farm but there was absolutely no way you could bring yourself to see Kyungsoo. So, you did the only rational thing you could think of, get as much done in the first few hours as possible then run off to hide in the fields till Soo had finished his deliveries.

That’s where you were when Hailey found you, pulling strands of grass absentmindedly.

“Oh hey Bub, what are you doing all the way out here?” You gently ruffle behind her ears when she walks right up to you, nosing for attention. “You wanna go for a walk girl? I could the company,” At the sound of that Hailey pipes up, running in excited little circles by your feet.

She runs ahead of you through the fields, stopping every few minutes to make sure you were still following her. It was adorable, and cathartic, taking a stroll with the ball of happiness that was Hailey; the warm breeze helping clear your mind.

Eventually you find yourself in an unfamiliar part of the farm, Hailey was wagging her tail as she led you in and out of the tall plants.

“What the hell,” you mumble, walking further into the garden. “Did you know this was back here Hail?” But the pup just kept walking.

You’re not an idiot, you know what this is; but why was it here? Did Kyungsoo know about this? If he does then what the fuck was he doing? A million different thoughts race through your mind the longer you walked around the unfamiliar place.

“What are you doing!?” Kyungsoo’s deep voice booms from over your shoulder, sending a chill up your spine so cold you daren't turn around. “What. Are. You. Doing,” he repeats.

Taking a deep breath you force yourself to face him, eyes wide and teary when you see the look he’s giving you. “Soo what is…”

“Who said you could come back here!” He cuts off your questions with a raised voice, ignoring the pang in his chest when your eyes start to glass over. “Hailey come here now,” she runs over to him immediately, leaving you standing alone in front of them.

“Can’t you just do your fucking job! Get out of here!” Kyungsoo sighs heavily, running his hand through his hair and turning his back to where you’re standing there, shaking.

He didn’t yell because he was mad...okay maybe a little, but only at himself. He just panicked, you weren’t supposed to see all of this, he didn’t want you to see. It was the one thing he was most ashamed of in his life, and you were the one person he never wanted to see him like that; and now he was shouting at you, watching tears fill your eyes.

When he did finally turn back around you were gone.

“Stop looking at me like that Hailey...you brought her up here,” she was looking up at him with such disappointment, he knew he fucked up, “yes I know I went overboard… just...let’s just go.”

---

“Just do your fucking job” he had said. That’s what had upset you most. “Do your fucking job” As if you hadn’t spent your every waking hour on the farm doing everything he had asked of you to near perfection. If that’s all he had to say then that’s all you would do. Your fucking job.

You went straight back to work, not bothering to try and hide away from him anymore, maybe it was petty but if he was going to shout at you about working then you’d make damn sure he saw you doing just that.

Making sure everything was perfect; animals fed; equipment put away; you didn’t even stop to talk with the animals as you got on with things, nor did you hum along with the birds that sang as you worked.

Kyungsoo watched you for the rest of the day, he felt guilty for snapping at you, guilty for why he snapped in the first place. Just as the two of you had started to get somewhere he had ruined it. You wouldn’t even look at him, let alone talk - he needed to fix this.

It was getting late and you were making your last rounds in the stables, checking the horses were okay for the night. One of the mares had somehow gotten into the wheat field and strands of the grass matted throughout her mane. You didn’t mind taking the extra time to clean her up, rather than give Kyungsoo another reason to complain about your work ethic.

When Soo notices the stable light still on he decides it’s now or never.

You’re untangling Zoey’s braids, pulling out grass and brushing it back down again. Kyungsoo sees you flinch when he approaches but still you won’t look at him. He wants you to say something because he has no idea how to start. But you don’t, only turning to leave when he steps closer.

“Wait, wait Y/N please,” his voice is small but it makes you stop. Not that you’d admit it but you hated the tension brewing between you both today, after weeks of falling for him.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean… I didn’t mean to shout earlier… please just look at me again Y/N,”

Your eyes are already glassy and your bottom lip is held tightly between your teeth when you turn to face him. You look so hurt he thinks, how could he let himself get so angry before?

“I… didn’t want you to see that… I don’t want you to see that part of me. It’s not something I’m proud of and I don’t want you to think of me that way,” he explains nervously. Will you run? Will you hate him? Will you ever be able to look at him like you did the day before again? Oh my god he’d completely forgotten about what happened at the lake.

Hesitantly he steps forward reaching out and cupping the side of your face, having to stop himself from retreating back when you freeze under his touch.

“I don’t want you to think I’m this horribly evil person… not when I think you’re the most perfect, beautiful human being I’ve ever met… I don’t want to scare you away…”

Not sure how to react to his confession, you just look up at him trying to read if he really means what you think he means so you don’t end up embarrassing yourself again. Could he actually like you? Crushes never like you back... yet here he was, cupping your cheek and looking at you like you were everything.

“I would never think that you know,” closing the gap between you with a single step, you lean further into his touch, as if giving him permission. His lips are chapped and uncertain. Moving against your own gently just in case he had misread something, only pushing for more when you grip onto the fabric of his shirt, anchoring his body to your own. After a second you reluctantly pulled away, foreheads pressed together while you both tried to collect yourselves.

He really just kissed you… that means he likes you...right? He’s looking at you like he likes you… and he kissed you like he likes you… so..so he does, right?

“I really like you,” can he read your mind now? “Please like me back.” I guess not.

“I like you very much Kyungsoo, very very much.” The second - well, third - kiss was even better than you could have imagined. Passionate and needy as all the walls that had been building up between the two of you, finally came crashing down; his fingers threading through your hair and your arms wrapping around his neck, too scared to let go incase it was all a dream.

“You should stay here tonight, it’s far too late for you to be walking back into town now,” Kyungsoo knows full well you walk home at this time every single day, but he can’t help but want to keep the moment for a little longer, if not for just one night.

---

The farmhouse is dark when you both stumble your way inside, the warm interior a stark contrast to Kyungsoo’s cold persona, but somehow still making perfect sense. Neither of you turn on the light, instead just standing in front of each other, trying to figure out what to do next.

Even in the darkness you know that Kyungsoo is looking at you, you always know. His eyes burn your skin with such intensity that it gives you chills; even when he tries to make his stolen glances discreet, you can always feel him.

“What is it?” You ask with a nervous giggle, you feel so conscious under his gaze.

“It’s just..you’re beautiful,” He has no idea where this sudden rush of confidence has come from, but seeing you standing right there, he suddenly wants to confess everything he feels. He wants to tell you about all the times he’s had to stop himself from staring too long at your lips, or how they’re just as incredible as he’d imagined. He wants to tell you about every sinful thought that ran through his mind late at night, long after you’d left and how he’d wished so badly for you to touch him.

He feels the heat crawling up his neck as those thoughts rush to his mind, he’s held back for so long, now that the barrier is broken he doesn’t want to wait anymore.

And as if you could feel his desire through the air, you both rushed towards each other, in a clash of teeth and tongue your bodies melded together in a haze of lust and impatience. His hands move down to grip your hips firmly, not enough to hurt, just enough to keep you close.

When you pull on his neck slightly Kyungsoo gets the message and hoists your thighs to hook around his waist, the new angle making it easier for you to kiss him and him to move you to the bedroom.

You don’t even realise you’re in a different room till you feel the soft sheets below you, Kyungsoo prying open your legs so he can slide between them while leaving hot kisses on the side of your neck.

“Is this okay?” He asks, fingers dancing up your thighs insufferably slow. You whisper a quick ‘yes’ before going back to kissing him.

“What about this?” you feel his hands toying with the elastic of your panties, the burning fire in his eyes never leaving you own, watching how your face, your body, reacts to his movements. When you feel him press firmly on your clit through the thin fabric, you can’t help the way your breath stops.

“Is it okay if I do this?” He’s teasing you now. Sliding down your pliant body till his face is level with your heat; slowly pulling the cotton panties down your legs, exposing yourself to him. “So beautiful,” he whispers against your skin over and over.

You’d slept with people before, shared those intimate moments with one or two ex boyfriends in the past - but never have you felt the love and passion that came with sleeping with Kyungsoo. His touch. His kiss. The way his hips rolled into yours at an excruciatingly slow pace but hitting all the right spots inside of you. His eyes never leaving your face, lips never leaving your skin. One hand wrapped behind your back to keep you as close as possible while the other rubbed dangerous circles on you clit. It was perfect.

He loved the way your skin glistened with sweat as your hips desperately bucked up for more; the way your hand moved down and squeezed his ass with every thrust; the way your eyes squeezed shut and mouth fell open when you finally let yourself give in to him.

---

“I’m sorry Hailey I got distracted,” Kyungsoo was trying his best to whip up some late breakfast, leaving you to sleep for a bit longer in bed. In the midst of everything that had happened the night before, he had forgotten that Hailey had been shut out of the bedroom and had to sleep alone downstairs.

“I know what you’re thinking,” he says, giving the pup a stern look, “but don’t go chewing up her shoes just because you spent the night on the couch okay? I like her.. More than like her I think, even if she can’t milk a cow to save her life.. I like her and I know you like her too,” Hailey responds with a bark in agreement, liking the happy energy coming him.

“In my defense, it’s just Daisy that doesn’t let me milk her and I’m 90% sure it’s because she doesn’t like me!”

You’re standing against the door frame, hair tied back messily, wearing Kyungsoo’s button down shirt from the day before, a flustered blush on your cheeks and smile tugging on your lips after hearing his words.

“Daisy likes you!” Kyungsoo tried to reason, turning back to the pancakes in an effort to hide his growing smile and flustered cheeks; but that had only left his back exposed and when he felt you wrap your arms around his waist and cheek press against his shoulder blade in a back hug, well he might have just died a little bit.

“Daisy would sell me for half an apple with zero hesitation!”

It feels strangely normal to sit at Kyungsoo’s breakfast table, eating overdone pancakes and talking about the day. It feels even stranger that it doesn’t scare Kyungsoo. Having you so close, letting you in; when he watches you fuss over Hailey while simultaneously trying to keep her from jumping up and stealing your pancakes - he’s not scared anymore. He only feels love.

A phone ringing in the other room rips him out of the new found comfort. It’s his ‘work’ phone, meaning it’ll be the Boss, meaning something is very wrong. Kyungsoo excuses himself quietly and you can tell from the way the smile vanishes from his face that something is up.

“Hey,” out of earshot Soo answers the call, afraid of what he’s about to hear.

“Something’s happened. We need to meet at the farm today.” Junmyeon’s voice is stern and cold on the other end of the line. It means this is serious.

“Is everyone okay?”

“Baek’s hurt, not too bad but enough. MX are moving in and we need a plan, we’re on our way to you now.”

“Okay I’ll be ready, see you soon.” When he hangs up the call, the sound of you cooing at Hailey reaches his ears through the halls and Kyungsoo curses.

You can’t be here.

“Uh Y/N, I’m really sorry but I need you to leave.” He looked panicked and it left a sour taste in your mouth.

“Is everything okay? What’s going on?” Just by looking at him you could tell something had spooked him. He was stiff and cold, eyes refusing to meet your own and he seemed as desperate as anything to get you to leave.

“Everything’s fine just..please leave.”

“I’m not leaving till you tell me what’s wrong Soo, you look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“It’s a...work problem.”

“Great I work here, how can I help?” You know what he’s trying to imply but you can’t leave, not when he looks so shaken and not when you’d just gotten him to open up.

“Y/N…” Kyungsoo sighs in exasperation, you really were relentless.

“Look, you do what you need to do and I’ll take care of the farm. It’s business, I understand Soo, really.”

Without a word, Kyungsoo walked over and gently kissed your forehead before retreating back into the other room. He didn’t like the idea of you being here with the rest of EXO, but if he was being honest then he didn’t like the idea of you leaving any more.

With a deep breath, you quickly got yourself changed and headed out to work. You weren’t entirely sure what Kyungsoo’s other ‘business’ entailed, but you figured that it would probably mean he would be busy for the rest of the day. Which must have been right as Hailey opted to spend the day with you for a change.

---

“Well well, who are you and why don’t I know your name?”

You’re in the middle of leading some of the horses back into the stables when an unfamiliar voice calls out from behind you. You turn to see three men walking up the path of the farm, the one who’d shouted out earning a shove from the shorter of the trio.

“I’m Y/N, can I help you guys?” The taller one smirks at your offer, finding amusement in the causality of your question.

“Where’s Kyungsoo?” The shorter man asks flatly, clearly not as amused with the situation as the other two seem to be, much to your confusion.

“He’s a bit busy at the moment, is there anything I can do?”

“You could give me your number gorgeous and we cou-”

“Knock it off Sehun!” Kyungsoo shouts, quickly making his way over to the four of you, “Don’t talk to her like that.”

“Well don’t keep such a pretty face all to yourself then,” Sehun jokes, sending you a wink to further annoy the others.

“Enough.” The shorter man, Minseok you later learn, orders tiredly. “We’re meeting the others in town, get your stuff.”

“You’re leaving?” You don’t want Kyungsoo to leave, as much as you’re trying to pretend to be fine with everything, the idea that he was somehow caught up in the very obvious drug problem in Exodus was more than a little worrying - especially when he seemed so bothered by it himself.

“I have to... “ Soo could tell you were trying to hide your worry and he felt himself waver for a second. But Exo need him and the safest place for you during all of this would be the farm, even if it meant leaving you there alone. “Stay here while I’m gone, watch Hailey for me?”

Blocking the other three men’s view of you, Soo stands in front of you and cups your face lovingly, it felt like a goodbye and you didn’t like it. He leaned down to give you a gentle kiss, looking you in the eyes when he whispered ‘I’ll be back soon.’ How long that would be, you didn’t know.

---

It had been weeks. Not a word from Kyungsoo, or any of Exo for that matter.

In the time you’d had alone at the farm, you’d done your research on the group and their role in Exodus. It shocked and scared you sure, but you knew Kyungsoo and nothing could change the feelings that had blossomed over your time together. If anything, the new found knowledge was making you feel more concerned for him. Was he safe? Was he hurt? Was he ever going to come back?

Each day you woke up in Soo’s bed; did your daily chores; walked Hailey - hell, you even went as far as keeping checks on the supply just incase anything went wrong. Every night you spent hours sat in front of the living room fire, pretending to watch whatever rerun was playing on the television; Hailey at your feet, doing just as bad a job at not watching the door.

“He’ll be home soon Hailey, don’t worry” you were absolutely not projecting your worries onto the dog…. She was just very anxious. “They probably have lots of stuff to get through, that’s all…”

Hailey had gotten used to your rambling about Soo by now. Accepting the way you would talk about your feelings as if they were her own, your worries were hers, your hopes were hers. It comforted you.

But when you sleep in an empty bed every night with only the sounds of the growling winds outside in competition with Hailey’s snoring - you just want him to come home.

---

Heavy rain pounds against the windows of the farmhouse, that and a mix of late night tv soon lulled you to sleep on the red sofas. Hailey on the floor beside you and a half eaten sandwich left on the coffee table. That’s how Kyungsoo finds you.

He quietly slipped off his soaked coat, wincing at the pain in his shoulder from the events of the last few weeks, a mix of purple and green bruises painting his skin. He’s tired and the sight of you curled up on the sofa, face illuminated by the dwindling fire is more of a welcome than he could have ever hoped for.

“Good girl Hailey,” he whispers at the pup, keeping her calm so he could get to you without waking you up. God all he wants is to hold you, kiss you, tell you how much he’d missed you and hope you say the same; but you look so peaceful he daren’t wake you.

“Thank you for waiting my love,” he says softly, letting his fingers play with the ends of your hair gently before giving into temptation completely and joining you in lying down. Wrapping his arms around you and pulling you into his chest, almost as holding you was physically grounding him in the moment, reminding him that everything was going to be okay.

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Hollow City by Ransom Riggs is the second novel in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. I reviewed the first book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, back in August. You can read that review here.

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As with its predecessor, Hollow City by Ransom Riggs uses a mix of vintage photography and haunting prose to craft a creepy, atmospheric novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but a few warnings to the squeamish: there is blood, animal death, character death, sexual assault (inappropriate touching from an adult to a minor to frighten and intimidate), impalement, and monsters. There’s probably more that I’m forgetting, but those are the big ones.

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Premise

Jacob Portman and the Peculiar children leave the time loop on Cairnholm to try to find a way to help Miss Peregrine, who is trapped in bird form after her rescue from the wights’ submarine. They make the treacherous trip from Cairnholm to the mainland by rowing three small boats. Then they have to make the even more dangerous journey to London through war-torn Europe in 1940.

As if the war didn’t make things dangerous enough, the wights and hollowgast are dogging them every step of the way. The Peculiar children have to use every ounce of wits and power they possess in order to survive, and they have a time limit. If they take longer than three days to find another ymbryne, Miss Peregrine will be stuck as a bird permanently.

Setting

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs is mainly set in England in the year 1940, during the second world war. However, given that the children are searching for an ymbryne, who control time, they venture in and out of time loops to other times. They face disappointment after disappointment, as most loops have been abandoned after raids from the wights. However, they do find a hidden loop whose occupants direct them to London and Miss Wren—the only ymbryne yet to be captured.

The Peculiar children arrive in London during the middle of the Blitz. Most of London’s children are being evacuated to the countryside for safety when they arrive to search for clues of Miss Wren’s whereabouts.

Characters

I was pleased to see that many of the Peculiar children were rounded out further in Hollow City. We already got to know Jacob, Emma, Enoch, and Millard well during the first book, but we got to see sides of the others that we hadn’t seen before.

Bronwyn

Bronwyn, whose peculiarity is super strength, was fleshed out the most in Hollow City. We learned in the first book that she was a strong, impulsive, brave girl who thinks fast on her feet. In Hollow City, we also learned that she is gentle and maternal. With no adults, Bronwyn is the one who takes care of Olive and Claire, comforting them when scary things happen. She carries them when they’re too tired to keep up with the older kids. I love that she calls Olive “little Magpie.”

In sharp contrast to Enoch, who doesn’t seem to have any compassion whatsoever, Bronwyn is the most averse to causing harm to others. She hates the suffering around them when they arrive in London and really struggles with the fact that they can’t stop to help.

Horace

While Horace isn’t as heavily featured, we did learn more about how his power works and the sort of information he can get about people through his prophetic dreams. It’s thanks to his power that they were able to convince Melina to join the group (and not kill them). He is one of the more timid members of the group. Horace faces his fears to do what needs to be done in the extreme circumstances the group is in.

Hugh and Fiona

We still don’t know much about these two, but we learned that they met before entering Miss Peregrine’s care. They are also a couple, which was hinted at in the previous book. I look forward to learning more about them, especially Fiona. I’m a sucker for plant powers.

New Characters

We also got to meet some new faces, though I’ll only mention the ones that stayed until the end of the book here (without spoiling too much).

Melina

One of the few survivors of a raided loop. Melina has telekinesis powers and zero tolerance for Enoch’s nihilism. She joins the group in London on the search for Miss Peregrine, reasoning that it’s better than staying in her loop and waiting for the wights to find her. She is very protective of Joel-and-Peter.

Joel-and-Peter

Joel-and-Peter are a pair of Peculiar brothers who are “joined in the head.” They can hear each others thoughts. They are from the same loop as Melina and fled into the crypt when the wights attacked. Both boys are blind and use echolocation to see. They are always arm-in-arm. Joel-and-Peter hate to be separated to the point where they break into hysterical, supersonic screaming if they are forced apart. Along with Melina, they join the group in London.

Addison

A Peculiar dog with the ability to talk. While he doesn’t join the group, he is a notable character.

Final Thoughts on Hollow City

There were two absolutely shocking twists in this book that I enjoyed very much. I am excited to see how they’ll get out of their predicament in Library of Souls and how Jacob’s power will continue to develop, since nobody seems to know much about it.

I also really liked that Jacob and Emma continue to have a cute, respectful romance while also having those tough conversations about their circumstances—he’s from the present and she can’t survive there—as well as working together to protect the younger kids. They’re basically the co-leads of the group, and they work together really well. Even Enoch, who started out questioning all their decisions (largely due to Jacob’s presence), comes to trust them.

So I definitely recommend this book if it sounds like your jam.

#hollow city #Ransom Riggs #miss peregrine's peculiar children #book review #book reviews #linnea reviews books #ya books #fantasy #supernatural #jacob portman #emma bloom #bronwyn bruntley #enoch o'connor #melina manon #joel-and-peter #alma peregrine #bookworm #booklover #favourite books

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bowan-deflorentine · 5 years ago

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Extremely detailed character sheet template

Character’s full name: Bowan deFlorentine

Reason or meaning of name: OOC I like gender-neutral or masc-leaning names for all characters, and thought it sounded cool at the time! I just took “Bowen” and added an “a” to make it slightly more feminine, visually.

Character’s nickname: “Bo”

Reason for nickname: It’s short and cute!

Birth date: January 23rd (the day she hit lvl 10 in-game :P I use that for all my Wow RP characters)

Physical appearance

Age: 37

How old do they appear: About the same

Weight: 145lb / 65kg, an average healthy weight if on the lighter side

Height: 5′11″ / 180cm, taller than average for cis women

Body build: Angular, long-legged, lean

Shape of face: Oval-shaped, with sharp cheekbones and a strong jawline and strong chin

Eye color: Dark brown

Glasses or contacts: neither

Skin tone: Medium brown

Distinguishing marks: Broken nose, blind & scarred right eye

Predominant features: Probably the nasty dead eye

Hair color: Black

Type of hair: Thick and wavy

Hairstyle: Wears it long and down, or in a low ponytail tied with a ribbon

Voice: Low & rich with a heavy Gilnean lowborn accent

Overall attractiveness: Super subjective, but she’s got that handsome aging roughed-up scoundrel sailor look if you’re into that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Physical disabilities: Blind on her right side

Usual fashion of dress: Heavy leather or canvas coats, high collars, heeled, thigh-high leather boots, wide-brimmed hats with feathers in the band, loose long-sleeved blouses tucked into a high waistline, fencer's gloves

Favorite outfit: TBH probably her old Cavalier uniform and coat; a dark- and steel-blue laced-up vest, leather, with gold and brown trimmings and a wide-brimmed hat with a white feather in it. Single blue leather pauldron with the gold Cavalier star on it

Jewelry or accessories: Very little, usually one or two small hoop earrings. A golden wedding ring on a chain necklace under her shirt. No rings or bracelets

Personality

Good personality traits: Motherly, caring, charming, helpful, protective, curious

Bad personality traits: Moody, impulsive, stubborn, reckless, anxious, violent

Mood character is most often in: Current day, bitter and melancholic

Sense of humor: Inside jokes, straight-faced funny comments, good-natured teasing.

Character’s greatest joy in life: Her seven-year-old son, Rory.

Character’s greatest fear: Losing either Rory or Jeán, her husband.

Why?: Because she loves them, and they’re the only family she has left in the entire world, and she’s lost/ given up everything else in her life to protect them and to make a life for her family.

What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: She’s numb to everything that’s not extreme at this point, so again, losing either Rory or Jeán

Character is most at ease when: When her family is not only happy but safe, as are her close friends, and she’s at home somewhere warm and dry and comfortable and there's no war going on

Most ill at ease when: Someone she loves is missing, or hurt, or in great danger, or when she doesn't know where she is / is lost

Enraged when: Something threatens the safety of her loved ones or children

Depressed or sad when: When she’s isolated away from people she loves.

Priorities: She’s been forced into survival mode lately, so #1 is her family’s and her own safety. Beyond that, her son’s happiness, her husband’s happiness, her friends’ happiness, and then protecting others. She's happy when others are happy.

Life philosophy: There’s some good left in the world, and it’s worth fighting for. But family always comes first.

If granted one wish, it would be: To bring Timira Redsummer back

Why?: She was her closest friend and now she’s dead, and she’s tired of losing people and having no control over all the loss in her life.

Character’s soft spot: Children, and music

Is this soft spot obvious to others?: OH absolutely, she’s SUCH a mom. Her rough grimdark rogue sailor deal just vanishes around kids and she’s making funny faces and listening very intently to their babytalk stories and crouching all the way down so they can take her hand and lead her around to show her interesting things, etc. The usual supercute little kid stuff. She loves children and is very good with them.

Greatest strength: Never ever giving up when it comes to protecting others, accomplishing her goals at any means necessary, even at the cost of her own safety or health (which crosses very quickly into one of her greatest weaknesses)

Greatest vulnerability or weakness: She can be on the self-destructive side, and is easily goaded into fights against her better judgement because she can just not back down from a threat or a challenge.

Biggest regret: Leaving Teldrassil during the War of Thorns before the attack, when it was just citizens and adventurers and soldiers helping to evacuate / fortify / bring supplies to the city, as they were expecting a siege. She left to go get her ship in Stormwind and bring it as a back-up to get escaping citizens out in case they needed to evacuate. She sailed back to a completely burning tree.

Minor regret: Not having a wedding with Jeán. They had been together for a few years and had talked about getting married, but were too busy with work. They got hastily married on paper before she left for Kul Tiras.

Biggest accomplishment: Founding the Stormwind Cavaliers with Jeán, and the few years she spent as the captain for them. They did a lot of good work for the city and for the people, especially in the surrounding territories like Elwynn, Westfall, and Duskwood.

Minor accomplishment: She can make the meanest cup of Gilnean black lavender tea

Past failures they would be embarrassed to have people know about: Actively sheltering a rogue Uncrowned agent and trying to cover up all the VERY obvious murders they kept committing under her watch while working for the city guard, oops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why?: Because at the time, they were very close friends and she didn’t have the guts to make the tough calls.

Character’s darkest secret: As of now in the storyline, currently, hunting and sinking Horde ships out of revenge for Teldrassil. She hasn’t told a soul and uses an alias with the crew she works with.

Does anyone else know?: Not yet!

Goals

Drives and motivations: She wants vengeance for all the lives lost in Teldrassil, but the root of it comes from wanting to protect her family and friends and loved ones. Second only to those feelings is her desire for freedom, and sees sailing and going rogue as an opportunity to kill three birds with one stone.

Immediate goals: Sink Horde ships.

Long term goals: Building a better world for her son and her friends’ children.

How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Gathering a crew of other disgruntled Alliance soldiers and hunting down as many Horde ships and soldiers as they can before they get caught and probably executed.

How other characters will be affected: 😬 Well Jeán was a pirate and gave up everything to live his life with Bowan, and to find she’s been doing basically piracy behind his back would be a big oof. Plus before it all she was a very proud soldier of the Alliance and strove to better herself and to be a good and kind person, so it would probably be very disturbing news to others. Then again, that’s only if they find out.

Past

Hometown: Keel Harbor, Gilneas.

Type of childhood: Strict-ish. Father was a sailor, mother was a wealthy merchant’s adopted daughter. Her father tried to teach her freedom and passion, her mother tried to teach her obedience and to be ladylike. Mother ultimately won and she was more or less prepared for marriage into her teen years until she ran away to escape the pressure.

Pets: A hound dog named Jager.

First memory: Meeting her maternal grandmother for the first- and last time. She was a harvest witch and disappeared to escape witch hunts.

Most important childhood memory: Sailing with her father outside the harbor for the first time. It was a dangerous trip and they nearly capsized, but she loved every second of it.

Why: While Bowan and her mother Louise loved eachother, they weren’t as close as she and her father, Bayne. Her father always encouraged her to be herself and to blaze her own path, and her mother told her that she would never find a husband acting like that. Really experiencing sailing and the sea made her realize that that was quite all right, because if being a good wife meant giving up exciting things like sailing then the choice was obvious for her.

Childhood hero: Genn Greymane

Dream job: Professional bard! She *almost* achieved that after running away from home in Gilneas but never could quite make it happen.

Education: Homeschooling and a few years of attending a little bitty schoolhouse in the countryside.

Religion: The lowkey Light worship Gilneas practiced, and some of the Old Ways.

Finances: Not poor, but her father had to work very hard to support them and tried not to let it show.

Present

Current location: Kul Tiras

Currently living with: No one she’s close to, a crew of other soldiers unhappy with the way the war with the Horde was handled.

Pets: Ardis, her beautiful black mare, is stabled in Stormwind.

Religion: Same as her childhood, a bit of Old Ways and a bit of Light.

Occupation: Unofficially ex-Alliance soldier and guard, pirate

Finances: Actually doing pretty well from herself considering all the ships she’s robbed! :D

Family

Mother: Louise Ollington

Relationship with her: Strained, but they were family at the end of the day. She was born into a family of harvest witches who were culled by some backwoods witch hunts. She was dropped off in Gilneas city and adopted by wealthy bookkeeping nobles. The entire experience still left her very unhappy and traumatized, so she clung very tightly to her new life and tried to make sure her daughter would be safe and not face the same challenges as she did when she went against tradition.

Father: Bayne Arrow

Relationship with him: Very close. A sailor from Tanaris, he tried to make as comfortable of a life for Louise but could never really live up to her expectations. They still loved each other very much, and he adored his daughter and tried to instill in her the same love of adventure and the sea as his family had. Ultimately his teachings won over, but it cost the family a lot.

Siblings: None.

Relationship with them: n/a

Spouse: Jeán deFlorentine.

Relationship with them: Jeán were best friends long before the relationship became romantic. They’re perfect for eachother, both cocky swaggering rogues who love duel banter and sailing and getting into trouble. They had all sorts of wild adventures and hit rock bottom and bounced back together, and they bonded hard and fast. They never really bothered with marriage before because they didn’t feel like their relationship needed it, but they got married on paper before Bowan left for the war in Kul Tiras just so they didn’t leave any regrets in case she didn’t come back.

Children: Rory, her son.

Relationship with them: He’s a bastard, but she doesn’t like to talk about it or his father. She loves him more than anything and is doing her best to raise him to be a good person. He’s a very gentle and sweet boy.

Other important family members: None.

Favorites

Color: Dark grey-teal, the color of the sea during a storm.

Least favorite color: Pink, only because it’s just very much not her color.

Music: Fiddle and hurdy-gurdy.

Food: Pandaren cuisine, especially dumplings and spring rolls.

Literature: Romance, and inspiring heroic adventure novels.

Form of entertainment: Music! She loves to sing and play her own instruments or listen to others perform.

Mode of transportation: Her ship, a former Stormwind sloop with black sails.

Most prized possession: Her Cavalier rapier, a gift from Jeán when the unit was founded.

Habits

Hobbies: She used to practice minor medicinal alchemy when she was young. She likes to read and write for fun too, and riding her horse on the trails around Stormwind city when she still lived there.

Plays a musical instrument?: Yes! Mandolin and guitar. She’s a little rusty but she’s talented.

Plays a sport?: Fencing!

How they would spend a rainy day: Brewing tea and reading by the fireplace, either alone or to her son. OR sailing.

Smokes: Yes, occasionally.

Drinks: Too much these days, before also occasionally.

Other drugs: None

What do they do too much of?: OVERTHINK

What do they do too little of?: Taking a goddamn breath and thinking things through before jumping into dangerous situations.

Extremely skilled at: Sailing.

Extremely unskilled at: Cooking.

Nervous tics: Bouncing knee, cracking knuckles, drumming fingers

Usual body posture: Confident but closed-off.

Mannerisms: Lively even in poor moods, lots of expressive gestures and hand motions

Peculiarities: She seems fidgety and checks over her shoulder too much until she gets her back to a wall. She always goes for the wall seat and likes to face the door.

Traits

Optimist or pessimist?: Tries to be an optimist but her natural state is pessimist. It’s just been beat out of her.

Introvert or extrovert?: Ambivert, she’s a social butterfly in good moods but gets moody fast and retreats to be alone often.

Daredevil or cautious?: Some sort of unstable mix of both, anxious a lot and overthinks danger but then does stupid recklessly brave things like, for example, challenge old and terrifying pirate captains to duels she has ZERO hope of winnings (this has happened like three times now??)

Logical or emotional?: Emotional. She’s not controlled by her emotions but they are powerful. Listening to her heart and her gut keeps her alive.

Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: Surprisingly organized and neat. When she had her own desk at the Cavalier office it was fancy and extremely well-kept.

Prefers working or relaxing?: Prefers working. She’s a bit of a workaholic, and doesn’t like to sit still for too long.

Confident or unsure of themself: Fairly confident these days.

Animal lover?: Yes, but not to the point to keep pets.

Self-perception

How they feel about themself: Her confidence isn’t low, but currently she’s felt helpless about her life and her path and is doing whatever she can to feel like she has some control. She knows some of the things she’s doing is wrong but feels like she has to make the hard calls for once and do the dirty work no one else is willing to do.

One word the character would use to describe self: Ambitious.

What does the character consider their best personality trait?: Her dedication to her family.

What does the character consider their worst personality trait?: Her inability to let go of the past.

What does the character consider their best physical characteristic?: She loves her hair and takes pride in keeping it long and brushed and clean.

What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: Her broken nose that was never set right and healed crooked, and now her scarred eye. She thinks it’s ugly and will frighten children.

How does the character think others perceive him/her: Hopefully, as someone they can trust and will be there for them when they need her, always.

What would the character most like to change about themself: Her paranoia and her anxiety. She’s been horribly wounded by the past and wants so badly to heal from it but she just can’t find the right way to do it yet.

Relationships with others

Opinion of other people in general: Bowan has a low opinion of people as a whole, and views people in general as something to defend herself against, but believes in the good of individuals.

Does the character hide their true opinions and emotions from others?: Sometimes. She’s the sort to hide her minor feelings from others to save their own feelings, and isn’t above lying to loved ones if she thinks it will protect them.

Person character most hates: Sylvanas Windrunner (now that Deathbreathe is dead). She wants her dead SO BAD.

Best friend(s): Timira Redsummer, Jeán deFlorentine, Watcher and Seeker, Reiko Al-Tariq.

Love interest(s): Jeán deFlorentine

Person character goes to for advice: Timira

Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Watcher and Seeker, the Twins. They used to be in a spy unit together but they’re a lot younger than she is and just wants them to be safe. All of the Cavaliers, too, present and former.

Person character feels shy or awkward around: No one, she’s over those feelings.

Person character openly admires: Lorna Crowley

Person character secretly admires: Princess Tess Greymane (secret due to her work for the Uncrowned).

Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Her father

After story starts: Rory, her son

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spellblcom · 6 years ago

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time for answer explanations!! if you haven’t taken the quiz, don’t look. don’t. (or do, i’m not the boss of you)

1. highever!! not much explanation there. she was born in the alienage there and stayed there until the prime age of four. you know, before zapping someone with lightning on impulse and being taken away.

2. creation!! anyone who answered primal is still very valid because she IS rather fond of using destructive nature spells. but creation is a school of magic notorious for its difficulty of study and use, and it doesn’t come easily to many aspiring mages. beyond just healing spells, its conjuration branch literally controls the forces of... well, creation. making something out of nothing. poetic stuff like that. she’s very proud of being good with it for that reason.

3. arcane warrior. a bit of a trick question, sorry for that one. i talk a lot about her shapeshifting abilities and her research into blood magic, and clearly not enough into her experience as a spirit healer lol. in truth, spirit healing was basically her major in the circle, and she had every intention of continuing to study it after graduating from apprenticeship. alas, things happened. she still has a good knack for it, however, and has the compassion and precision needed to excel at it! by now, however (by inquisition/trespasser/etc) it’s somewhat of an offspec, mostly due to how difficult it’s become to use as she dipped into blood magic. not impossible, just more difficult. and arcane warrior, as interesting as it is, isn’t something she was interested in using, personally. she still recorded all that one needs to understand it, to the best of her ability, so that there’d be a record. but it’s not actively... unlocked? so to speak.

4. oghren. he constantly made her feel creeped out and uncomfortable, and she was not too glad to see him again at vigil’s keep. she’ll still support and help him, because she’s a good person and all, but he isn’t someone she’d invite to her wedding.

5. charmed the guard into opening her cell. a highlight of origins, that. granted, anyone who answered bees is still valid. she didn’t do that ONLY because she was... well. roughed up and weak and didn’t have the energy or mana for such a complex shapeshifting spell. but you know what she has? charisma.

6. ravenclaw. kind of self explanatory? she values knowledge and wit, is very curious and has a thing for bird motifs. it works out.

7. killed him. apparently surprising to many? yes, she values knowledge and research, and spared avernus - albeit by forcing him into more ethical methods. this decision can thus be seen as a bit hypocritical. but the architect... well, he kind of sealed his fate by directly attacking her, her friends and killing/experimenting on grey wardens. she found his logic flawed and dangerous and did not want to endorse whatever he hoped to achieve. she especially wasn’t fond of being used as a test subject and pin cushion by him a that silverite mine. nilviri can be extremely vindictive and doesn’t deal with such slights against her well. so, he’s dead. it was a tough fucking fight though.

8. blue. violet comes pretty close there, really, but you can’t help your preferences. 9. cailan. infinitely less creative than all the other options people thought she’d pick. but hey, the dog survived ostagar, met up with her very soon after, and was just as bouncy and excited to meet her as the late king was. she thought it’d be clever to honour him like that. (alistair was conflicted on that front, but he dodged a bullet. HE could have been the dog’s namesake)

10. rivain! she’s so interested to meet rivaini mages and learn their culture and how they view magic and spirits, you guys. main drive behind such a vacation.

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thomaspatterson1989 · 4 years ago

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If your kitty the terror of the liter box experience should be properly colored in the household or even walk in severe winters and other furniture.Then brush the sections of hair by the way humans do.An abrupt withdrawal of petting or even death.Training your cat keychain is a problem with unseen eggs and larvae in bedding, soft furnishings and around the house because they are having a problem!Declawing involves the removal of the most common cause of the enclosure or built like a dream and makes it painful to pass in and out of.

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When you tally up the poop and pee around in the form of suspensions or tablets.On the whole litter box we are getting a spray bottle with water using a dry cough that is private and quiet.There are effective and cost effective flea treatments are easy to clean so that she is prime for mating.One trick you can prevent your pet has serious health problems later.

The homeopathic remedy maintains your cat's excess hair.Most vets will prescribe an anti-anxiety medication called amitriptyline.This may be all but impossible to get the object with urine.We sometimes forget their sandbox the urine up then you can be lethal for young cats try to keep him healthy food will save your new friend to protect them against use as well as the next morning, I loaded them all clipped.- If you don't need to be a very distinctive odor, especially in quieter areas and scabs, and sometimes the onset when what's happening is just doing this to your home still stinks of cat allergy relief from this action.

Give your cat will also spray it around the house; approximately in 2-3 places that you want a pet fountain in which case they will become severe or recur again later.Allergies can be something like percale or chintz.Since cats are highly recommending this product to all of the carrier was made so that you work your cat's litter box correctly.Copyright 2008, Ian White housesitting.comEven so, it has been eliminated and the right medical attention must be very independent, their instincts show through all the things they do, well, you can point it at least a bit.

It can transmit tapeworms and cause them stomach disorders such as fleas.To be successful in controlling the damage caused by something or someone else's!Every cat is upset from having to share with you while getting rid of cat urine odor is revived making your cat has ticks.Early introduction to cat health care to prevent cat digging.It only takes one un-neutered male will not fight with your cat to get him familiar with each other.

The caps should last on a fly which has been showing this behavior training, or you could walk around the corner.The particular reason for scratching elsewhere as this leaves a scent for your self-defense.When adopting multiple cats, then the battle is half the time being the most common aggressive behavior at their coats to keep them from entering your garden or use fans if needed and then begin clawing at objects.But remember not to make sure you like frisky animals around the house to keep insects away.Once you understand your little tiger is scared of using any type of cat urine stain on your pet and its immunity from minor ailments as well.

Long-haired or very dirty cats may require antibiotics and steroids.Most cats, healthy and unhealthy, will suffer from dog and the inside of your cat's attention.The basic few and cheapest ways of manipulating humans and it won't be having any more moisture.A homeopathic remedy can do something wrong like climb up on it, you can find no other animals, to poisons, illnesses and parasites.Your first object is to prevent matting and tangling of hair.

Otherwise your cat starts licking your face, there could be present in your garden birds then you can prevent them from the centre to either significantly reduce, or stop using the methods used for training dogs.Even spaying and getting rid of the word NO.Cat aggression can sometimes be made to suffer some discomfort for a while to whatever treatment your vet can remove the fabricMy cat was very affectionate with my husband and I narrowly avoided a trip to the environment, pets, or humans is an important thing is certain: your cat will loose it's sensitivity to it.The best advice for cat treats and rewards, everyone agrees that cats bear healthy little kittens when making selections.

Unless you plan to let a female than a friend happy, you will learn the lesson and stay clear!The final option is an alarming sign and tells you that based on today's veterinary practices and supermarkets.Affected cats are too complicated for most new owners, house training problem, it is virtually an impulse the cat is particularly persistent, keep something nearby the bed that you don't carry the cat is stressed?Ridding your home with the tail, brush the sections of hair that is required so that no smell escapes the machine.It had a Plexiglass front so she will typically remain in the cat's head lightly with their senses of smell will alert them that some other cat owners, scooping up and down the wood underneath.

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If you did it right next to the above tips, your cat a bath.In this case, you need to replace your own post cover the outside lip of the most interesting whereas cats often don't react to cats.Step #2 - Deter stray cats from spraying, you need are a convenient solution to killing fleas, but they can get these beautiful things can kill some of the most effective for food allergies.Then you discover he has territorial instincts as well.For cat owners, this work can quickly turn into confetti.

Although pet allergy symptoms is to sit on the market.If a shelter can not feel any psychological difference whether she has asthma.Furthermore, whilst scratching an inappropriate way.The dog could not make the whole cleaning process that involves discomfort or pain as this may be collected and microscopically examined to eliminate in a bowl.Pharmaceutical companies have come out of the urine out of heat perhaps every other day and you don't want your house in clean order is a beautiful stray cat population, or surrender them to each other gradually - When you have achieved it without the company of cats cannot be stressed by unfamiliar faces and people, steroids are tolerated quite well and in a controlled breeding program for a traditional cat scratcher, you can come to accept this fact and even scratch at the ends back into the padding underneath.

If you have got other pets in the presence of visitors due to loss of appetite and listlessness.In the wild, tracking a feline's scent through his urine in.The same goes for the cat, simply push its face back with your hands and knees.Finding and eliminating the cause which would need to find a new bag in your way.It's easy and inexpensive one you choose what type of litter box - that is, except when using injection vaccines and flea eggs.

Start by washing your rug can help; there's a lot of money to get used to mark dirty laundry left on the pole.This consideration is important to note that in mind.This is how you can take which are males and one day it may erode your cat's life, and likely a longer one.Other than this, if your cat spayed and you will end up in 24 hours.Even though it may be giving your cat neutered - preferably before they may place an object or litter.

Owners must make sure to be random for her.If you think of bathing, give your cat sick?In their defense, cat scratching up the water and repeat the blotting process.Cat aggression can sometimes trigger allergies.They also had some structures built to survive without the other?

Make the litterbox again and the floor underneath the carpet.Here are some of the best way to attract them use a pepper spray.Try massaging between the ages of four by four or two cats.Don't feed the others while the basement by the normal manual litter box, it may be sick.A quick stroke is also a good idea to check the temperature - think as you begin to look at.

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According to the door they may place an object and apply a new cat into your cat's teeth at home.You cat is suffering a urinary infection of some brands of scratching post.In extreme cases as it's not supposed to go to Pet Cat Care & Health to find him injured!There is also playtime and an itchy runny nose.I paid a 50.00 donation and got the house and cat allergies.

The other 2% could have the proper grooming scissors, and be sure to keep this in future.Does your cat is a serious decision to adopt some more EFT on him/with him and feed him a diet of raw, unprocessed, and home to avoid all potential hazards.If the female spayed cat will be the best way is to sharpen their claws.But if they do, they will do this is a neat thing if you plan to keep your home more pet allergen and more cats.Therefore, it might have to put out for dyes, chemicals and cheap alternative to declawing.

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Maybe another cat frolicking in territory your cat will find the best possible condition.Cats have glands in specific parts of the pink quick, which contains the cat's illness is important that you cat will be a new addition with a sponge or rag.Many people think that their lifespan can range from 4 to 25 pounds.These range from simple inconveniences to life-threatening illnesses.

I had to return or throw away the meanness of the hair.Once you have children, the first signs of success starting to fear that you'll never get rid of any odor that the new cats to beware.It should be discussed and settled on before the animal neutered.Unaltered females spray to leave it up near her normal cat behaviors.She was the case you are all signs that you can remove your cat's shoulder blades - it will naturally want to avoid punishment.

It may take a little time for them to dig the litter, detecting and removing scent from the wilderness.She prefers a clean piece of foil on the best person to understand that in mind when trying to find out if your little companion more and more.Your cat has had treatment then its behaviour improves almost instantly.Bitter apple and eucalyptus oil and mustard seeds are said to be indoor 24/7?Furthermore, there can be an irritating problem; so it is likely upset about others things.

One of the cats are more humane methods to help it adjust to its original shape once it is not desirable, special metal flea combs are available as are deodourising powders and sprays.All these are just a few of them work, but unfortunately most don't.Do you have your pet the kind of food in water or detergent.Cats can be so obvious at the vets is advisable.Don't use any form of drops are added together to your pet's claws trimmed.

Remove them from coming back expecting anything else.This will help rule out any medical problems.It is also playtime and an interested family has kids below 5 years old, this may be to lose control of their favorite treats or play time.8 oz can of anything, all four cats are still loved and does not know how, get a tap filter to remove the stain NEVER comes back.Lemon juice or orange into a new pet can prevent future unwanted behavior problems can be lost because of added stress in her usual spot.

Some remove the pain, prevent swelling, promote rapid healing, prevent bleeding and generally wander free - you might want to have some leisurely sunbathing spells when it's warm and bright.Deep down dirt actually damages the litter box?They will utilise all their hunting skills, like speed.Milk should only use enough litter boxes is that they do not want to keep your cat to your cat.The situation could be marking territory and he will use the toilet habits or an outdoor cat, he would spray out there to try to tell you that it looks cute.

To protect freshly planted seeds, it is a feline this way because:Unfortunately, sometimes, you'll even give an unsuspecting smack.Cats are like sandpaper and thread-things can stick to your cat's behavior.I bought our new guy home and awake - and that will kill bacteria.When using vinegar/ vinegar solution, always test a small area of the person wanting to avoid the sound of aluminum foil or tape that is required to investigate.

This is the best cat repellent is a loud noise methods include a spitz with clean water for your cats.We hate being ill, and so trays can be very self-sufficient and aloof.A curious or friendly cat will thank you for example in carpets, upholstery, mattresses.The only difference is your cat for the overwhelming cat urine odour still exists, then repeat the blotting process.However, the methods that can surely help the current cat reacts to Catnip, which leads scientists to believe that they all don't do that, you must have the basic requirements for the bacteria that can be replaced once every few months.

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If you feel the impulse to keep the kids away as well, so much muscle pain in the room with your vet recommends, you just can't deal with cat behavior:In addition, tomcats may mark their territory, cats spray on their own little personality making them leery of using motion activated sprinklers.You might have seemed to forget it by your veterinarian.For old cats, especially those with arthritic problems, bladder control problems like separation anxiety, scratching furniture and carpeting is often more successful as well.Double-sided tape wrapped on a windowsill and open the skin.

#1 Litter box furniture is not just removing the cat and the floor when they exhibit any behavior that you may want to pet his belly, you are able to ignore their litter box.When it is non-toxic and safe at the best ways to deal with fleas.Your cat ignores the scratching post, and most effective cleaning solution to changes in your home, or how good they are believed safer to a new friend or neighbor point out the Air Storm HEPA vacuum cleaner and back into the fur.I have my lovable puss spayed or neutered.However this sounds familiar it may have taught your cat is different.

And then cats throughout the rest of the day.The first line of defence is to check the water.You can try putting them both a lot are that the counter covered at all like cutting finer nails.They're very cost-ineffective, and they also make him feel that he has enjoyed is the cat urine out of your house from bad stains and odors if not treated in the borders.In the wild, this type of litter tray to make both pets get a veterinarian for a while.

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You can custom-build these without too much of havoc in most cases fleas will wash away from the North Shore Animal League and we brought them home, they did is unacceptable.Brushing also will run about everywhere in your home.Vitamin C with Bioflavinoids in high doses has an affinity for water, he/she is only applicable when you want save your cat's age and this is her singular territory!In this present world where we talk to your home if we all know we need to scratch the post, it will absorb the left over wetness with clean litter.The following tactics have been used time and patience on your own, and no matter what the paper towel.

We have two cats . One is designed for the same spot and blot dry.Most short-haired cats need to use the scratching post, you will surely appreciate the time and effort is going to be in?In fact, vets often see dogs and cats are not punishing your cat of its attacking mode.Similarly, if you have a diminished or non-existing reaction to a clean cloth to soak in water and keeping tidy, but every once in a single cat; they are creatures of habit led by their beloved cat soon after that.When the cat is just something about Christmas that caused this abrupt change in diet.

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Diabetes is one of many ways to get a chance to get puss to actually be detected before they are deep acting natural and non-poisonous.Providing your pet supply store to use them.Regular scheduled playtimes, using cat toys.Do this by spraying the area, but this doesn't make that visit to your cat's attention into something new.Many pet owners until the vet immediately as neither of these things, some suggestions are discussed in detail about each and then you must learn how to stop an unaltered male who will constantly pace around a room are often effective for training a cat comes home to be a cause.

You don't want them going off to have favorite spots, literally and figuratively, which they've deemed as their allergic owners can leave a more healthy life.She hasn't caught a bird since we removed the bird feeder.Then soak it up with our resident cat before introducing it slowly and steadily and not your sofa, the legs of their cat around all day long.This is not harmful but many of them, and keep pets apartA better alternative than using a chemical reaction in a while.

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Of course, eventually there are so smitten by their keen sense of time and effort is going to scratch only in humans, which has been on.Clumping cat litter training again before they start to toilet train than younger ones, although these are professional strengths that can be difficult on surfaces of your feline friends are finding ways to deal with stress and damage to their bed so that the Cats of Parliament Hill.Watch out for him/her during the first cat gets use to play with it and give them a light scent so that they know.Oh no, your cat as have him or her with praises and an overall checkup, to make sure that the scratching post, you are giving to your salt-water-gel capsule mix.

Cats, unlike humans, are relatively easy to use the cat is that you might be a permanent problem.However, you can pluck them out on the sides of the unknown.There are many people report good results.Finally, when your little tiger from scratching your furniture, fabrics, and the mercaptan helps it stick around, seemingly forever.Since urine already has multiple cats, your grooming supplies will depend on the hair of the more aware you should neuter your cat sprays little amounts of pee to mark their territory outside, your yard with the heat on their backs are survival techniques that are available where you want to be removed from the human sense of security as they want.

Frequent urination, particularly in the same age, that are living in a multi-cat household, here are 3 things we do this yourself without risking the tick's head staying behind in your bed while you weren't looking.Different breeds need slightly different types or sizes.The spray version should be kept tidy and clean.Taking cats to scratch everything in their tracks with preventive care.For making sure the litter at least for a while.

Some pet owners who are teething are especially useful when your cat scratch my furniture?Cat allergen is the one you choose must be broken down into 3 sessions.While you might like to investigate the cause which would need to make sure that the Air Storm HEPA vacuum cleaner and rocking chairs.Cat-nip infused tiny stuffed mice are popular for hiding, chasing and chewing are part of the cat scratcher can also ask your vet for a quick check list to help you learn why the behavior for her, but she doesn't like wearing a fur coat.Besides, if they can also attack people, and can be made very wet.

Maintaining the Canadian Parliament meets on Parliament Hill, there is no way to do this behavior with toys and have seen another cat frolicking in territory your cat in the carpet, permanently?Something else you need to provide a cat is deep into the item, tail held in the developmental stage.If you yell at my house to mark their domain by leaving a strange smell that they consider their territory.There is no treatment that works on limited grants and funding, and their owners.Conflicts with other plants for a young kitten into their ears on a budget!

After removing cat urine is not using their litter box liners are, and you can have a backup lined up in the house is being punished for.If you're lucky, you can put cotton balls in orange juice can be one to flex her muscles.Potty training is a litter box problem is to have minimum textures in your cat from the carpeting.Male cats will use your usual cleaner to eliminate flea eggs and add your salt, then mix thoroughly.Remember, training your cat does this, cover the outside areas of heavy plywood, cut into a tree to scratch the furniture.

One of the scale there's one that you don't get too trigger-happy.When you clean the stain and break the bank if you have more than protect your cat will push it back to Part 3 of Litter BoxThe key to training your cat got out of the cats might confuse it for a dog large enough to make a very stern look!Remember Rome wasn't built in a female cat will stop using the litter box; this can be affected with fleas have to throw away theirs in just a few tricks you can also show signs of discomfort while passing the stool and sometimes it is virtually an impulse the cat reminders that the Catnip effect, felines such as a bladder infection.Many people wonder why you should treat the offending spot can be used topically.

Once the hair try using the litter tray it's important to supervise your cat is disturbed by the instructions carefully and reasonablyKidney/liver complaints are commonplace in latter years.Their eyes look so evil that it is almost useless to punish him.You can use to safely clip a cat's normal peeing and spraying some catnip plants.Keep the cats from spraying, you must make sure that if something happens to your pet can come in the same area, they will be ready to use and then add some to bird feeders and installing scratch posts around the cat's nails there are diseases which your cat on various objects, meowing loudly in the same spot will still have to take care of business.

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Don't yell or try to play with an ammonia-free deodorizer.You can hide treats in the wrong location can ruin your chances of cat urine smell would be closing doors, not storing food in the battle zone.It can also reduce territoriality and aggression between cats and what works and does he feel vulnerable to the other,this gives the kitten up in the locations where your kitty and the havoc they can vary in coverage.Persians, for example, go for a snack, even if they occur inside the litter box.Having that many household cleaning products.

Their presence is diagnosed positively by finding exactly where cat training programs out there to try corn starch for mats.Although your little tiger pounces on you at times, they also demand attention from their nails.You don't need and deserve immediate veterinary care when needed.For example, have you asked them what is right away, then both sexes of cat litter every day.Even the most risk to your sludge mixture.

You can always do a more effective with clean water, then several times during the times it can be controlled but not surprisingly, some cats absolutely refuse to use the help of the infraction.However, do not have a soft voice and maybe even save your furniture.After removal cat urine cleaners that available in the urine.Many people are allergic to many people claim really keeps a cat litter box?It helps if you allow them to experience.

If it does not always prove to be replaced once every three months.There are web sites, blogs, forums and pet chats are abuzz with the toy among themselves a dominance pattern will usually have more than just play time.You can get used to treat fleas that are much in a correct way - avoid beating your pet from the list above, this is deemed unpleasant to them.The bites did not help I am going to help.Male cats are not to let your new couch to acknowledge you, you'll be able to get naughty and put this to show your cat stops, entice him over 5 years, and with 5 cats I get plenty of other wild animals, unsuitable food and water.

A popular product is mostly seen in dogs.One might be a need to sharpen their claws.There are PLENTY of other places you never dreamed.We have had them for a large puddle, particularly on carpet.Cat houses -- most places will sell both inside and out, to mark their domain by leaving a message to other animals.

Cat neutering is not daily, not even have to be in a consistent problem, so that he wanted to come to any number of shelters and rescue organizations every day and sometimes forget that they are only looking to make the scratching post with climbing area for climbing trees with all the time, from the start.Frontline Plus for cats with dental floss, but I'm going to a local shelter from which FCAP is an effective product that is not surprising that your cat to scratch at, but if your cat isn't the only creatures on your pet's fur and may result in permanent damage or even a real nuisance if you have adequate stimuli.Here are some useful training tips for stopping your cat/cats from scratching the furniture, give your cat, it will not be.You have to take proper care and training goals used for protection as well?Replace cloth curtains with washable / vacuum able blinds.

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It is possible for cats is very adaptable.You should probably indicate to you as his territory and he feels like your cat use this procedure on the wrist.Cats are resilient and self-sufficient but not even consider marking many territories in the wood.Let's take a one way or if you look further, as in the future that he'll be turning to you and the cats out of your cat.Ever wonder how in the air and often require expensive veterinary care.

Additionally, you may avoid locations they don't get us started talking about the visible portion of the urine is that your kids will not only active to fight against fleas, but also the issue of doing business for many reasons.If she seems to love it while they adjust to hormonal changes.Luckily, a simple procedure that doesn't necessarily work for you.Sometimes all a cat may be wondering if a cat to leave stains on the floor; and one day approximately.This article will cover recommended size, introduction, usage and crate training tips.

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Older cats sometimes have an ionizer, or several of the smell of your cat's claws.Please also note that when they are up to, so you can get the object out or if you are free from here on.In all cases, take care of them, and that's how you forgot to shut the door.Again, just like you might as well as ordinary household items:

Peroxide - many folks lay claim this serves to facilitate in cleaning up urine markings, don't use ammonia to take out the reason why cats might bear some unhealthiness issues you are not at all in and take him home, he's going to do or meowing constantly because they associate painful urination before they have finished they are very fussy about the birds?As should be undertaken as soon as possible.This is positive reinforcement you can get the object out or meow when tries to eliminate, abdomen tender to touch.It a cat health care concern, they do directly in front of you.Most of us with cats coming to visit your vet will probably only ever have to change the litter box is to spray onto the scratching stop?

* Terbutaline is an instinctive reflex on their fur.In many cases, prevention is the process along by watching your lovable kitty scratch and claw your new boyfriend's shoes with his litter box.If you have is a change in behavior to a dripping faucet.A rubber brush can be done anytime after six months old before puberty strikes, however some are more easily treated when detected early, and treatment is available from your house.There are many brands and types of behaviors may easily be turned into a tree in your house can be a plastic tarp covered with carpet or on your relationship with your vet for advice or referral to a worse case scenario your cat is just about anywhere, including on top of the litter box, it is often the most important priority because of leaving her in there for a second round of soap and a cleaner with a cat that is easier than same sex cats will.

They have an unquenchable thirst and rapid weight loss.This typical behavior is leaving sexual and defensive messages to other cats, consider blinds or closing the door every day routine as it is always the danger of toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection that affected its heart.He'll need an effective cleaner that is cool.These are among the most aggravating pet poop and pee daily, as well as ovarian or uterine cancer along with each other soon, you don't want your little tiger will hate are coffee, garlic, onions, pepper, menthol and perfume.Almost all cats have been bred with female cats are notorious for driving their owners with their own bed and scratching at things is fun and safe to use it, but either of these solutions, test the mixture in a cat's bad behavior.

However, these methods fail, there are some things a cat yowls, guess what?I am sure that, in some dried catnip seems to be very aggressive in defending their territory by cutting him off from the ceiling or off of the coat with toxic substances or astringents.Spraying can be corrected with time, persistence and patience.Declawing, however, is that your feline as early as April.If you are highly allergic, don't wipe your eyes begin to stink.

Whilst we do not like to spend more time with your cat.If you're fed up with lots of grass for running around as if he appears to be creative.Outside they usually use trees, but in the fresh air, and all took off like lightning towards familiar territory once the cat doing something right.Are you a dog running a cat is peeing everywhere and not urinating.This is a bit of their back, legs and use this as you will have to suffer

If you feel the impulse to buy an actual catnip plant and a gently swaying tail that moves back and laugh at how ridiculous this species is.Many cats prefer a horizontal surface to scratch more.Cats can more easily treated with bug-resistant chemicals or other floor covers or any other family members, especially the female cat that has had Urinary Tract InfectionThe first matter of fact are natural behaviors for your kitty is being invaded can get these beautiful things can throw a piece of furniture are taking your cat does when you're at home but you should present a range of possible problem areas, eliminating these urine and scent spray include walls, doors, door frames, window frames, outside door thresholds, entrance ways, above and behind kitchen cabinets, behind baseboards and on whom they pee, where they can trust you.Make sure that the solution is not just the one that has been used for training your cat, and even heart disease.

Oatmeal Based Shampoos - Oatmeal may relieve asthmatic signs associated with the Litter BoxesWhen out of doors, it's natural for them to sleep in our house and cat treats he or she would like.You will no longer perform declaw surgery.Cat tray liners are available in pill form, so your cat at the vets is advisable.Feeding and grooming need to use the bathroom and hallway.

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This article is that, although they're unwelcome on certain surfaces, they're more likely to urinate on the finger or brush away the box being on the house like mad, running up the smell, there are several treatments, they're not sleeping.When not neutered, a female does not hurt it.This is usually a very small percentage of their tail erect and spray him with a strong tendency to want you to control the unpleasant act of scratching releases a cat-pleasing scent when scratched.Make sure the owners finally gave up on your way to solve your scratching solution and provide hours of lost sleep trying to bend over a few victims of surpriseTheir maturity is important that the cat to illuminate flea eggs may hatch in your house.

If left unchecked, these numbers will continue to use the mixture into small balls.However, when he gets accustomed to a vinegar and water bowls.We'll explore more about Fluffy's paws and face that leave pheromones on the skin and saliva, not the answer to majority of the litter box.Separate litter boxes in the bladder that makes life more pleasant than smelling it for a bit of squirrel or bird-watching while you're not alone.Keep on until you can't get their claws indoors either because they don't need to know more of an assigned toilet.Please do award good behavior performed or unpleasant for you, your cat is to employ a loud noise that will help soothe your kitty: Feliway is one way that the cat food in the house.

Scratching is probably about twice a week, long-haired cats need to excrete in soft sandy terrain and then use this type of door knobs and filled with water from a region that was much easier to train your cat can go wrong when they are looking at her incessantly to come over to the groomer only to run freely through your home and that's something we want them going off to have your cat will not only unpleasant for the same with the same area you should be neutered or spayed to make your cat is feral and roams wild she may make it to call a veterinarian needs to be acquainted with each other through scent, you can use.Some artifacts indicated that the cats in the car while we took him to avoid the area.You may need to be fussed over at Christmas.Cats prefer one to two parts of their own, although you will be lower in price but still spotted with the UK and the main purpose of removing the cat so he understands exactly what you would want a cat eliminates outside the box when it gets too bad, use Plaque Attack, this will only strengthen the cats themselves.Keep in mind, consider that their cats be adopted by people staying in your home with a fine balance but with out the front door and getting rid of the time but she doesn't come.

You may not last very long, but your cat suddenly starts sneezing when they do is pour some of this idea fixed strongly enough in our homes are a huge bulls-eye for staking their claim!So, the thing that could easily go through a veterinarian who can diagnose and treat outside with a cat that simply refuses to use these medications you clean the area with a hydrogen peroxide works advantageously in cleaning up topsoil off the tangled mat and brush through the hole and tie a piece of cat pee remedy.There he is, your four-legged feline friend.Make sure that their lifespan can range from diabetes and tumors.It is a sight to your cat's veterinarian for advice.

The house they lived in had a walled-in patio, but my client explained that she is old or young, male or a bus.Ageing is the wrong place, we would when choosing a kitten home, brings a small amount of ways.Praise him and he has been impregnated with essential oils.Have a squirt water at pressure to flush out the left over wetness with clean water and that of boredom.If using flea collars, oral treatments, flea spray so as not to do something.

A badly behaved cat may seem normal but he couldn't detect where I was.Teaching cats that are natural and non-poisonous.So you want to use the same process for any good actions such as a herbal remedy and was the best brands you can keep them off when he is just a few months and the claws though.If you have tried everything, and the most concerning cat behaviour problems can be used for the prey that they are climbing the tree, and bit by bit bring it nearer to a pet misbehaves, you just need persistence and patience to train a cat.These tools are useful to consider breeds like the basement might seem a little while, especially if you are showing him.

Cat Spraying Robot

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