text, un: hector

[petcromancer]

Name: Hector [un: hector]
Date: Mid Maiuril
Format: Text


There is now an animal shelter operating within the city. We are accepting donations and volunteers. If you find an injured or homeless animal, you can bring it here.

Thank you.

[Attached is a picture of the shelter with the sign just out of frame. There are dogs, cats, rats, and some native species. Hector's also listed the address of the building, but not the name. Because it's awful. Blame Everett.]

Comments

[petcromancer]

The sign's not important. I'm using this to let people know where to come.

But yes, the animals are very cute. You are welcome to come visit them. Many of them like to play.

[foundfamilies]

Wouldn’t it be easier to find if people knew what the sign looked like?

I do want to visit! Though I can’t promise how often I will be able to come. I have been having trouble making enough time for everything. I’m sorry.

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[rollfordiplomacy]

[Sorry, Hector, that just WON'T DO.]

I'll send you a picture, dear Leslie. It has a cute name!

[The photo he sends has Hector looking grouchy beneath the "Paws for a Cause" sign. It is in a tasteful font over the door. Everett cannot be trusted to arrange such things]

y u gotta be like this

[petcromancer]

[Just enjoy Hector's dead-eyed stare from across the room, Everett.]

you devil you (though she’d see it eventually)

[foundfamilies]

[Her response is a little delayed — wordplay isn’t her forte — and text hides the delighted expression that results after she murmurs it out loud.]

What an adorable name! The words sound a lot alike, and it makes me think about the animals helping out. Thank you for taking the time to send a picture, Sir Everett. Though I think you might have caught Mr. Hector at a bad time when you took the picture.

[She has no clue why he’d look grumpy like that.]

[rollfordiplomacy]

He's making that same face at me right now!

[foundfamilies]

Is he? Did you ask him if he’s okay? He looks upset.

[rollfordiplomacy]

I promise he is fine. Thrilled even! The rescue is just what he wanted. And a wonderful use of his skills and caring nature. He is an admirable man for wanting to help out the animals, don't you think?

[Everett's way of avoiding saying "he's just grouchy about a pun"]

[petcromancer]

Don't worry. The animals will be here when you have time.

[foundfamilies]

Thank you. I look forward to meeting them all.

But are you feeling okay? In the picture that Sir Everett sent, you look like you’re not feeling very good. Did something happen?

[petcromancer]

[...

how does Leslie always latch onto these things?]

I'm just tired from getting the shelter started.

[He is lying through his metaphorical teeth.]

[foundfamilies]

[because she’s rped by a rude person because she cares deeply about people.

Her ability to spot a lie in person isn’t exactly the best, so in text, she has no chance.]

You must have been working very hard for them. The animals here are very lucky that you did. But now that it has been set up, please take the time to rest. Even though you are probably finished growing, [“probably”] I don’t know if it’s healthy for anyone to not get enough sleep.

[A lesson she’s recently learned — thankfully through being told rather than getting caught pushing herself into acute exhaustion, which probably would have happened if she didn’t ask Edelgard why people drink coffee.]

[petcromancer]

[Help, Hector is getting lectured by an adorable child.]

I will. It seems like I will have plenty of volunteers to help out, so it won't just be me.

[Even though he will be a workaholic if he doesn't monitor himself. It's fine. He's used to keeping long, strange hours.]