"What do you think I have been doing for the past five months?" He continued to frown at Lust as she sat down. He remained standing out of instinct.

He was trying. Wasn't this foolishness proof enough? He was raising brightly colored animals in a world where their biggest concern was which Pokémon horde would swarm in next? Scar felt as if he had already tried everything. This was some place where he could be relatively okay, but that was just in theory. He still caught himself muttering, still jumped when a door slammed, still glared at any stranger who looked at him the wrong way.