Private Barracks/Imperial Condos The Trenches The Canon

[Asta Dalgaard]

Asta looked over her shoulder in concern at the change in Whisper's tone. Seeing her friend with tears running down their face, the jill felt a pang of concern. She glanced at Caden, noting that the fox's demeanor had changed significantly when he entered. For his part, the jack seemed about to say something, and Asta could see that he would attempt to reassure the little vulpine. Asta's intuition, borne of her own experience with fear and trauma, was enough to cause her to interject.

"Caden, would you mind putting on some tea for us?" she asked, giving him a pointed look as she tilted her head towards Whisper. Caden was quick to catch her intent. He ducked back into the hallway with a quick nod.

"Tea sounds wonderful. Of course."

Once his footpawsteps had receded down the hall, Asta turned back to Whisper and reached out to take their paw. "Whisper, is everything okay? You're safe here, I promise."

 

[Marie "Whisper" Deftclaw]

Whsiper gave a meek smile through tears as their paw was taken. Caden's presence or lack of it mattered little now that they already went through the tipping point. They just really lost any care, fully accepting the hopelessness just like at the Opera.

"No... b-b-but it d-doesn't ma-matter. I-I a-al-already f-f-failed. I m-must se-se-seem like a d-disaster t-to your f-f-father and t-to you. I am ju-just t-t-trying to enjoy t-t-this while i-i-it-it lasts, b-be-because I-I k-know neither of you wi-will want t-to s-see me e-e-ever again. No one w-would."

 

[Asta Dalgaard]

"Whisper, you don't seem like a disaster at all." Asta held their paw gently, trying to think of how to reassure the fox. "Why would I not want to seeing you again? Because you're having a hard time? I have a hard time a lot, too. Not meaning that nobeast wants to see you and be with you."

She rubbed the back of her neck, glancing at the portrait of her father. "If it helping to hear, I get scared with some things, too. I'm afraid of male beasts I don't know and feel frozen and very very scared when they are around. On the ship from Varangia, with all the sailors, it taking me weeks to even talk to them without Caden. One of them was very nice and liking me, but I was so scared I would run away from him and cry in my cabin when he would try talking to me." Asta did not bother to hide her own tears as the recollections of what had happened to her came to the forefront of her mind. "I thinking it is okay to be scared when you having reasons, when beasts say or do things to you that hurting you. It making every day after that harder."