[Fidgets. He still doesn't know what to do. He has more questions than story, but he was going to pay her with a story. Yosh...]
There was a big white doggy who rescued a little blue bird! [Okay so this is the most obvious story ever, but give him a break, he's not used to this.] The bird was a lot older than the doggy, but the doggy adopted the bird as a son anyway because he said it was a terrible thing for fathers to outlive their sons and the birdie was gonna live a really really long time after the doggy because dogs don't have long lives.
[Fidgets and switches to bird, feeling a little distressed and panicky again.] But the bird thought that was okay because he would protect the doggy for as long as possible. And then they made lots more friends and family and they were never ever separated long.
But then one day the birdie wound up in another place trapped far away and a mermaid told him about thirty years in the future......
[O-oh. He just about never cries as a phoenix. Being a phoenix was cheating, he could barely feel so emotional as a bird and as a phoenix was "detached." It was nice... so why was he starting to cry now?]
I don't want to lose Papa. [Hides in the wings.] I promised to protect him... how could I fail? [He wasn't good enough, wasn't strong enough, even in the future.] A-and my brothers need me to be that strong, they need Papa too.
What'd I do wrong?
[/Brb crying quietly forever. Throughout all of it, he's immensely quiet, almost calm sounding, even the tears are quiet, just steady streams he tries to hide. He has to be strong to protect them all.]
[August 12, Video]
There was a big white doggy who rescued a little blue bird! [Okay so this is the most obvious story ever, but give him a break, he's not used to this.] The bird was a lot older than the doggy, but the doggy adopted the bird as a son anyway because he said it was a terrible thing for fathers to outlive their sons and the birdie was gonna live a really really long time after the doggy because dogs don't have long lives.
[Fidgets and switches to bird, feeling a little distressed and panicky again.] But the bird thought that was okay because he would protect the doggy for as long as possible. And then they made lots more friends and family and they were never ever separated long.
But then one day the birdie wound up in another place trapped far away and a mermaid told him about thirty years in the future......
[O-oh. He just about never cries as a phoenix. Being a phoenix was cheating, he could barely feel so emotional as a bird and as a phoenix was "detached." It was nice... so why was he starting to cry now?]
I don't want to lose Papa. [Hides in the wings.] I promised to protect him... how could I fail? [He wasn't good enough, wasn't strong enough, even in the future.] A-and my brothers need me to be that strong, they need Papa too.
What'd I do wrong?
[/Brb crying quietly forever. Throughout all of it, he's immensely quiet, almost calm sounding, even the tears are quiet, just steady streams he tries to hide. He has to be strong to protect them all.]