07-04-2018, 05:24 PM
[font=trebuchet ms]”My mommy... can you help her?”
Paper swallowed, a grimace splitting his features. The child had yet to learn about death, or at least about its permanence. In the back of his mind, part of him wondered if what had happened to Pincher could be applied here- but that same part of him knew the odds were astronomically low. It was better to tell her the truth now, rather than get her hopes up.
Thinking over how to break the news, he gestured over to the other two, then pointed a paw at himself. ”These are Caesar and Alpha. I am Papercutter.” Then, with a sigh, he glanced back up at the whale, and said lowly, ”Your mother... she’s not going to wake up again. I’m sorry.”
Lowering his head, he looked the child in the eyes. ”We can bring you back to her later, when it’s safe. We will give her a proper funeral. But she would want you to come with us to safety.” Some would call invoking her dead mother’s authority manipulative, but they were trying to save her life.
Paper swallowed, a grimace splitting his features. The child had yet to learn about death, or at least about its permanence. In the back of his mind, part of him wondered if what had happened to Pincher could be applied here- but that same part of him knew the odds were astronomically low. It was better to tell her the truth now, rather than get her hopes up.
Thinking over how to break the news, he gestured over to the other two, then pointed a paw at himself. ”These are Caesar and Alpha. I am Papercutter.” Then, with a sigh, he glanced back up at the whale, and said lowly, ”Your mother... she’s not going to wake up again. I’m sorry.”
Lowering his head, he looked the child in the eyes. ”We can bring you back to her later, when it’s safe. We will give her a proper funeral. But she would want you to come with us to safety.” Some would call invoking her dead mother’s authority manipulative, but they were trying to save her life.