And they'd gotten an itsy bit more social after that hunting trip with Leggy-Friend, so you might be onto something there! But they can't go on like this forever too much quiet and not enough yelling, and they keep leaving camp without a buddy which is very bad because that means there's no friends around to light a flare if they get lost or hurt. Perseverance and being nice is the groundwork of making friends, but beekeeping together wouldn't hurt. Secretly, you'd been hoping that maybe the two of you could bond over that stuff a little. But they like bees and lureplants and the moon - and you love all of those too! Not in the same way lureplants don't seem especially evil to you, and the moon holds so much life that Robot-Friend doesn't seem to care for when they call it 'INORGANIC AND GOOD,' but it's nice to share interests. They don't like most things, or organic things at least, so you don't think it's anything about you especially. You're good at looking out for your friends, and even though it's not weird for them to ignore you, it's worrying that they haven't talked to Fixer-Friend since she put their heart back together and they broke it again. And it's not like Robot-Friend doesn't have their own friends to talk to, when they're feeling friendly enough to actually hang out with the rest of you. The little ones are the best, always the fastest to fill in the blanks or shout out suggestions when you can't find what you're looking for, and they're chatty enough to make up for the gaps in your speech. Your friends are nice about it though! Some of them picked it up easier than others, but for the most part everyone gets the gist of things. You never want anyone to think you don't care about them like that. Nothing in the world but your loneliness and the moon watching over it all. Feels too much like the early days, before your friends had found you, where you sought companionship in everything that moved and found not a soul who wanted to know you. You don't like it when people don't understand you. Sentences escape you, trailing off into gestures and noises that always feel as if they should convey more than they do. Sometimes it's hard to get your point across bits and pieces you can't connect together well enough to form what you'd like to say, things you haven't learned the right words for yet or can't get their meanings to stick in your head. Everyone tells you you're a very good listener and you're happy with that, but what are you meant to do when your they won't talk about it? When Robot-Friend starts walking past you without so much as a second glance or a demand to stop getting pollen everywhere? So you try to be extra nice when one of them isn't doing very well bringing them garlands and jelly salad, spending time together so they don't get lonely, and a lot of napping. You know it feels different to them, that they don't really belong in this place the same way you do. It happens to everyone occasionally, homesickness or bad weather or just the stress of trying to survive, creeping up on people like weeds. There is something wrong with your friend.
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