First time for everything. All anyone ever says anymore is "you just aren't trying hard enough, and you don't know what you're doing and I do," or "I hate you and that doomed offshoot that saved you was better, I wish he was alive and you were dead!"
...
I'm gonna go be someone's dog, and I'm gonna be the best dog they could hope for, and every day they'll come home and be happy that I waited for them all day.
...Frick, if you wanted, I could try. I'd be careful and all that, use a tiny little paintbrush...
...Heh, there you go, a proven strategy.
(Goes quiet when things begin sounding argumentative and shoots them both an inscrutable, blank look.)
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(Panos has moved to the living room and is scrawling things in his notebook.)
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019-Gracia sits on the floor in front of Anvil-
-Hal seems to have gone into his room with Maeva-
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

-anvil looks away from his book, his eyes landing on red-