[Basil understands how Max must be feeling...what she must be thinking. If given the choice, if they could stall and push off the inevitable? Basil knows he would be tempted to wait, too. But if Max is already far gone enough to be asking to go hunt, then waiting would just make things worse.
The last thing he wants is for her to wind up stuck the same way he'd been. Starving, confused...unable to control himself.
So he lets Max lead him from his room, the door remaining ajar as they step through the hallway. Basil's footsteps feel painfully loud to his own ears compared to normal, rhythmically hollow thunks of wood like someone walking with a cane.]
We can do that.
[If it's what Max needs, then they have to. Whether it be through coercion, or fear, or even just chasing someone into it...he supposes he'll understand and have a better idea once he actually sees one of Max's rings for himself.]
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Date: 2023-07-23 01:10 am (UTC)The last thing he wants is for her to wind up stuck the same way he'd been. Starving, confused...unable to control himself.
So he lets Max lead him from his room, the door remaining ajar as they step through the hallway. Basil's footsteps feel painfully loud to his own ears compared to normal, rhythmically hollow thunks of wood like someone walking with a cane.]
We can do that.
[If it's what Max needs, then they have to. Whether it be through coercion, or fear, or even just chasing someone into it...he supposes he'll understand and have a better idea once he actually sees one of Max's rings for himself.]
It'll have to be somewhere wooded, then...