08-25-2019, 08:11 PM
[glow=#000,1,400]MY MAMA SAID THAT I'M NOT LIVING RIGHT. YOU RAISED A LION, MAMA, I AIN'T LYING, MAMA — ｡+ﾟ.[/glow]
Wormwood felt a slight smile come to his face when Roy seemed to calm at his words, seeming to drift into a state that the lion hadn't seen the other in since Roy had first joined a little while ago. However, it all seemed to skid to an abrupt halt when the tiger thought about his past, and his eyes clouded over with anxiety, his flames bubbling up and covering everything that had just been revealed. Worm felt a sense of guilty come over him when the sudden change occurred, not wanting to have caused the boy such distress. He had been unaware of the trauma that Roy had experienced before at the hands of others – although he had suspected something had gone wrong, thanks to the state the younger of the two had arrived in, almost entirely nonverbal and seemingly full of suspicion over the group claiming to want to help him and provide him with a home. He wasn't particularly more talkative now either, but at least he had seemed as though he was becoming more comfortable, and it seemed as though just being sociable and friendly helped with that, but all of his progress had been dashed with one simple ill-thought-out question.
Trying to recover the conversation and return Roy to his more pleased state from before, Worm shook his head before rumbling softly, an emotion in his eyes that he couldn't quite explain, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Well... it's alright, because your home is here now, in Tanglewood, where things can be nice and calm. We're all like a family here, and I think you'll find out pretty quickly why so many people decide to come here. I certainly haven't regretted it since I've arrived."[/glow] He's pretty sure his words were falling on deaf ears, but that didn't mean he couldn't try and make Roy understand that nobody here would hurt him, or try to use him. Despite what he might've been taught to believe for his entire life, Roy was not just some weapon for being ordered around by others, and the lion wanted to try his best to make sure the youth could understand that, while everyone in Tanglewood was expected contribute and work hard together, they didn't use each other. For example, Wormwood worked very hard to make sure that their food rations were full up and weren't rotted, but nobody forced him to do it or acted like he was worth less if he wasn't doing that duty. He hadn't even originally been assigned to do so much hunting for the group, but he had decided to do so on his own, because of how much he cared about everyone else.
Trying to recover the conversation and return Roy to his more pleased state from before, Worm shook his head before rumbling softly, an emotion in his eyes that he couldn't quite explain, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Well... it's alright, because your home is here now, in Tanglewood, where things can be nice and calm. We're all like a family here, and I think you'll find out pretty quickly why so many people decide to come here. I certainly haven't regretted it since I've arrived."[/glow] He's pretty sure his words were falling on deaf ears, but that didn't mean he couldn't try and make Roy understand that nobody here would hurt him, or try to use him. Despite what he might've been taught to believe for his entire life, Roy was not just some weapon for being ordered around by others, and the lion wanted to try his best to make sure the youth could understand that, while everyone in Tanglewood was expected contribute and work hard together, they didn't use each other. For example, Wormwood worked very hard to make sure that their food rations were full up and weren't rotted, but nobody forced him to do it or acted like he was worth less if he wasn't doing that duty. He hadn't even originally been assigned to do so much hunting for the group, but he had decided to do so on his own, because of how much he cared about everyone else.
— Reggan