Staying still from my action for a few moments I can feel a slight purr come from him. Then he moves his head back to eating the corpse.
I'd complain about the smell, but I think I've lost almost all sense of smell since coming to this region. Imagine smelling a bunch of rot and protorot for several thousand cycles? Basically, anything else smells less bad.
Moving my paw across his back I keep petting. Looking down the corridor, I keep watching just in case anything else pops up. Seeing nothing I look back down at Inv who seems already almost done eating what he can. Keeping an eye on his skin I see it's back to normal.
Also, every time I move my paw across his back, I can see the slightest trace of… gold? What could gold possibly mean?
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Well… Seeing this tells me he feels… ok at least with what's currently going on…
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I wonder how Inv cleans himself? I didn't see him attempt to clean himself at all last cycle…
Whatever, I'll figure that out later… I'll clean him up myself if I have to.
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'Hey that actually doesn't sound that bad!' I get a bit excited from the thought of licking him all ove-
"J-joey… i don…" bringing me out of my… 'thoughts', I hear Inv say this.
Looking down I see Inv looking up at me.
"A-ah sorry Inv…" stopping my pets I move my paw away and take a couple steps back.
I watch Inv stand back up on his legs and look at me… weirdly…
"Is something wrong Inv?" I ask him. Does he think what I did just now was weird??
"Nu… ets jus…" Inv trails off looking as if he's contemplating on something.
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Keeping an eye down the corridor I wait for Inv to finish. I want to know what he'll say.
Again, he looks at his paw that now is drenched in green blood with bits of dropwig flesh. Then he looks at me… specifically my paw?
Noticing this I raise my paw that was petting him, looking at it as well. Seeing it also drenched in dropwig blood I can only think how annoying this will be to clean. Looking back at Inv I see his head now tilted looking at me.
"Du… du u relly noat min?" Inv asks me.
"What? The blood?" I guess what he's talking about.
"Wel… Dat, an aso… dis as wel…" Inv points at the remaining exoskeleton of the dropwig.
"Of course I don't Inv? That damn thing would've done the exact same thing to me if you didn't save me at the last moment! Also, it's just blood… we can always clean it off later" I say back to him.
Most of the creatures in this world are far worse! At least he killed the damn thing before eating it! Anything else would've just dragged you back to its den and eaten you alive if you didn't die the moment it grabbed you!
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"I… I c… we… we clen et of latr den…" Inv says back. My chest flutters a bit when I see a small smile grow on his face! Sure! It might be weird to see him smile in a situation with him standing over a corpse covered in blood and gore but it's a step in the right direction!
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'I'm not insane!'
"Yup! Now come on, we still have to… climb up the wall…" I dreadfully say the last part.
That entire situation gave Inv 1 and a half food pips… I almost got myself killed just for that… and we just got started…
"ok!! Wight behin u!" I hear Inv happily say to me. Hearing him back in a mood where he isn't freaking out how he looks makes me feel a little better.
'Well at least something good came out of the situation. Getting this out of the way sooner is better than later' thinking this I give Inv a nod turning around.
Before I can keep moving forward however.
"Oh!!! Wai a momen!" I hear him say and look back to him.
I see him quickly run back down the way we came from and pick up the egg bomb. He must've put it down before I started running… picking up the egg bomb and tucking it under his arm he sprints back to me reaching me in seconds.
"OK, me weady!" Inv nods his head while saying this. Seeing his tail slightly wagging behind him I can feel a small smile growing on my face. Giving another nod I turn around and finally start walking.
Walking down the corridor it only takes a couple steps until I spot something on the ground.
'Would've been nice to have this before sliding under certain death' I sarcastically think to myself as I pick up the rock.
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Wait…
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"Oh god damn it!" I smack myself on the head covering my eyes while saying this out loud on accident. Through the slight vision I can see through my paws I see Inv move to my side also looking at the rock.
"W-wa wong??" I hear Inv ask in a worried voice.
Taking my paw off my face, I look at Inv.
"We had 2 rocks in the shelter we could've used and I completely forgot about them!" I explain to him. I was in such a rush that I somehow forgot about the rocks Inv spat out!
"O-oh… wel I aso forgor abou dem as wel…" Invs' ears droop a little while saying this.
"B-bu et ok! We hav wock noaw!!" Inv bends down and picks up another rock I didn't even see. Inv raises the rock to me offering it.
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In all honesty seeing another rock makes me feel worse but I know he's trying to cheer me up…
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A/N: I definitely didn't forget Inv spit out 2 rocks in the shelter. definitely not... (still think I made a pretty good scenario out of it...)