To the river? I would never shove someone back in there!
[He isn't in a state of recently-murdered flailing panic, after all. It takes him a minute to realize that the question, as quiet and slow as it was even for this teen's apparent norm, probably didn't mean that. If that meant back to the therapy session, or whatever, no. But if the idea of going back is distressful...]
If you mean back to the oasis... I think that's for you to decide. Sometimes teenagers just have to run away from home!
[Somehow, unlikely as it might seem - he isn't joking. He's thinking back to days underground, of one of the drake's infamous rebellion - and the frequent loitering out by the sentry stations. Even when the pack of teenagers gathered together, they tended to go no closer to town than his painted bridge, which... The reminder helps him continue.]
I think it's traditional for other teenagers to bring them packed lunches, but... we haven't really been eating... So I hope you'd let the people out searching know where you are eventually, even if they don't bring you sandwiches or whatever.
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[He isn't in a state of recently-murdered flailing panic, after all. It takes him a minute to realize that the question, as quiet and slow as it was even for this teen's apparent norm, probably didn't mean that. If that meant back to the therapy session, or whatever, no. But if the idea of going back is distressful...]
If you mean back to the oasis... I think that's for you to decide. Sometimes teenagers just have to run away from home!
[Somehow, unlikely as it might seem - he isn't joking. He's thinking back to days underground, of one of the drake's infamous rebellion - and the frequent loitering out by the sentry stations. Even when the pack of teenagers gathered together, they tended to go no closer to town than his painted bridge, which... The reminder helps him continue.]
I think it's traditional for other teenagers to bring them packed lunches, but... we haven't really been eating... So I hope you'd let the people out searching know where you are eventually, even if they don't bring you sandwiches or whatever.