[ Emmet just shrugs a little, or tries to approximate something like it from his current position before unloafing just a bit, freeing his front paws just enough so that he can lay his head down across them instead. It isn't that big of a deal? Putting anything away into storage would have ... what. Made it more real? Cemented it as a done deal? He's not delusional or in denial or anything, just... ]
Kept the space for you just in case you ever came back. Knew the odds especially after that long but. Weird things happen all the time. Ghosts, fairies, legendaries. Who knows.
[ Some might say that after a certain point, hope is just delusion, isn't it? It doesn't feel that way to Emmet, though. He's ... fine. He's been fine. More or less. He's been getting by. Five years, you learn to live with the absence, one way or another. Part of him sometimes wondered— well, no, that part isn't important. It's like keeping a light on, though; the beacon of a lighthouse at port, a light in the window, Chandelure's flames to illuminate the way home.
'There's a space for you here still if you still want it.' ]
Don't have to feel obligated though. Not trying to push. I am Emmet. Ingo is Ingo. But I know you don't remember. And that's okay.
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Kept the space for you just in case you ever came back. Knew the odds especially after that long but. Weird things happen all the time. Ghosts, fairies, legendaries. Who knows.
[ Some might say that after a certain point, hope is just delusion, isn't it? It doesn't feel that way to Emmet, though. He's ... fine. He's been fine. More or less. He's been getting by. Five years, you learn to live with the absence, one way or another. Part of him sometimes wondered— well, no, that part isn't important. It's like keeping a light on, though; the beacon of a lighthouse at port, a light in the window, Chandelure's flames to illuminate the way home.
'There's a space for you here still if you still want it.' ]
Don't have to feel obligated though. Not trying to push. I am Emmet. Ingo is Ingo. But I know you don't remember. And that's okay.