[He can't help but let out a slight squawk of alarm when she scoops him off the ground, and for a moment he just grapples for purchase on her shoulders, hands digging into her hair not to pull, just to balance.]
[She isn't the ONLY one surprised by this-- he's more that surprised, he's utterly baffled.]
[But... on his end, it brings back a rush of those few memories he'd accumulated back home that actually qualified as happy. Sloth... Sloth had done this for him, sometimes. Not often; she spent so much time doing important work for Pride, but sometimes.]
[And deeper still, there's memories from that little house he'd been brought to after the island.]
[He doesn't bother lingering on those. He never does. They hurt too much.]
Q... quick!
Clear a space with your claws!
Force them back!
[Because THAT'S one thing he can always remember cooperating with Lust on-- fighting. No matter how aloofly she'd always treated him when they weren't on a mission, the Homunculi were always good team players on the battlefield.]
[He knows she doesn't have her claws anymore, AND that the wiggly bundles of colorful fur jumping at them are NOT opponents that remotely required being sliced to ribbons.]
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[She isn't the ONLY one surprised by this-- he's more that surprised, he's utterly baffled.]
[But... on his end, it brings back a rush of those few memories he'd accumulated back home that actually qualified as happy. Sloth... Sloth had done this for him, sometimes. Not often; she spent so much time doing important work for Pride, but sometimes.]
[And deeper still, there's memories from that little house he'd been brought to after the island.]
[He doesn't bother lingering on those. He never does.
They hurt too much.]Q... quick!
Clear a space with your claws!
Force them back!
[Because THAT'S one thing he can always remember cooperating with Lust on-- fighting. No matter how aloofly she'd always treated him when they weren't on a mission, the Homunculi were always good team players on the battlefield.]
[He knows she doesn't have her claws anymore, AND that the wiggly bundles of colorful fur jumping at them are NOT opponents that remotely required being sliced to ribbons.]
[But they're all only playing.]