Test Drive Meme - Spring 2025

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[placates]

"Heather?", she said softly, before her eyes widened at his comment. Of course they were going to fly aboard one of these Pokemon and while she dreaded the idea of doing so, all she could do was simply shake her head and resign herself. She was in a new world and Henry knew far more than she did, so she had to trust him. He was all she had, even here.

"I appreciate it, but what I need more than anything is a bath.", she said, sighing a bit. Somewhere to change and shower, clean up her wounds and the like. It was starting to weigh on her, her feet becoming sore from the heels she was wearing, and her skin in pain from the lacerations.

"Let's just get to where we need to, okay?"

[no_ufo_ending]

"One of my roommates. She...knows about the Otherworld." Understatement of the century. He winces at Eileen's pain. "I don't know if there's anywhere in this town you can shower. There are some vending machines for snacks, but...there's not more to New Bark. It's more like a neighborhood than a town."

An idea floats to the front of his mind.

"I have Clam with me...he knows Watergun. I'm sure if he's gentle we could wash off your face and arms."

Henry tips his head to finish the question. He doesn't want to put too much on Eileen all at once, but he wants to help her.

[placates]

There isn't much for her to say as all of this information was still so new and shocking to her, leaving her with a concerned expression on her face. Someone else knew about the Otherworld? Though experiencing it or just Henry telling them about it? Additionally he was suggesting a Clam of all things spray her down in the middle of what was a neighborhood as if it was nothing?

It was all very difficult for her to handle but she decided to just push through and try her best to tolerate the way things were. She'd just have to wait in her current condition until she could finally find someplace to just unwind from everything. So with a sigh she shook her head and held her hand out, the tube of cream still in it. "No Henry it's okay, it's better if I just wait until I can find a proper place to rest. So let's try and get going then alright? I don't really want a clam shooting me with water....", she said, voice a bit tired. Besides how would she get dried? But she's sure things would work out in the end.

"Besides I have a lot of questions for you, we need to take sometime to properly talk."

[no_ufo_ending]

Henry looked at the tube of medicine. He couldn't blame her. That was...kind of a weird suggestion. He winces internally. Somehow all his years of becoming a more normal guy seemed to disappear when he's back with Eileen, his thoughts of the Otherworld so close to the front of his mind.

He puts the cream away and shoulders his backpack.

"I'll tell you everything I know," he vows. Henry nods for her to follow and begins walking toward Route 29 with slow steps. Maybe they can find a quiet tree to sit under.

[placates]

Thankfully for them both, she had gotten used to how he was and the way he conducted himself. Whatever progress he had made would have probably been a bit too much for her to handle given her already confused state— and given she was in a completely new world with zero knowledge as to why the animals here looked so strange, in a way his behavior was comforting.

With a smile, she began to follow after him, one foot after the other with her handbag swinging to the side. "It's okay you know? I get it, even if it is still so confusing for me I.....I appreciate that in the time you've been here, you're still so kind. Thank you Henry, really."

[no_ufo_ending]

A wobbly little smile makes itself at home on Henry's face. Her compliment touches him in a way he hasn't been touched before. Couldn't have been before everything happened. The otherworld. The ritual. The apartment. They were connected in a way Henry hadn't felt with another person now that he'd had time to stand outside it and look in.

His bond with Heather was unshakable. She was his sister. They had both fought God and won. But this still hit different. For the first time in ten years he could talk about his horror with a person who had been there.

Then, in an award winning show of Being Good and Normal at Words, Henry says, "I like being nice."

going to wrap this up/handwave from here ♥

[placates]

It was always strange to reflect upon the horrors she had gone through and to compare them to the way the rest of her life had been. Unbeknownst to her, many years ago as a child she had indirectly planted to seed to her own torture through being kind to Walter when she saw him in the streets. It was a terrible sight to see someone like him looking so sad, and she had shown him that same kindness as an adult later on [to his child, ghost self]. While she didn't want to say she regretted being kind, she certainly hadn't been expecting for it to be repaid so brutally.

Thankfully though there was Henry who had also known such a thing and had gone though the horrors. She didn't want anyone else to have suffered like she had, much less Henry who had gone through it first but much like himself, they both had gone through it. They could understand each other in a unique way.

So with a soft smile and a bit of a laughter to his words, Eileen held her hand out towards him and nodded. "You are, and I'm grateful you enjoy it. Let's go Henry, I want you to tell me all about this world and what you've been up to the last decade."