forum “What happened to you?” “…” (Closed with Eli-the-transboi)

Started July 20, 2023 by @Morals-are-for-mortals language

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Tseth steps inside and holds the door for Kara. He smiled ever so slightly at her.

The layout of the house was fairly simple from the look of it. The doorway lead into the living room, and on the other end of the wall with the entrance door was the entryway to the kitchen. There was a hallway entrance on the right living room wall that lead to a few different rooms.

(Casually steals the layout of my friends house because idk how to imagine house layouts myself)
(The layout of the rooms in the hallway is like uh- in the way back there’s an office, then the main bedroom, extra bedroom, bathroom, and then a miscellaneous room they use for whatever that also leads back to the kitchen)

(Niceee.)

Kara looks around ever so slightly, standing by the couch. She looked slightly overwhelmed. Like she didn't know what to do besides stand there silent. She silently appreciated the strangers kindness. Not a lot of people were kind to her. So this was extremely new.

Kara holds her black duffle bags to her chest and takes a soft breath in.

Tseth looks down at the duffle bags, suddenly remembering something. “Oh- there’s an extra bedroom if you want to put your stuff away there. I can show you around, if you want.” It seems like he lived alone. Well, maybe. The walls had some pictures hung up on them with different people in them. Friends or family, perhaps.

Kara looks at him and hugs her duffle bag tighter. She then nods ever so slightly at the request.

The girl slowly follows Tseth, looking at the pictures at the wall.

The door to what’s now Kara’s bedroom is right next to the living room entrance from the hallway. Tseth pushes open the cracked-open door and steps inside. There’s a closet, a window, and a bed with a curled-up mass of black fur in the middle of it. One that pokes its head up when the two of them enter and stares at them with yellow eyes. A cat.

Tseth tilts his head and chuckles at the cat on the bed, extending a hand to pet it. “This isn’t your room, little furball.”

Kara seemed to light up at the sight of the cat. She slowly makes her way to the animal and gently pets it. Kara slowly blinks at it, seeming to have a life inside her that wasn't there before.

(Hehe)

The cat looks up and Kara and stands up, stretching out and then sitting down and letting her pet them.

Tseth returns to a standing position and looks between Kara and the cat. “He seems to like you. And that’s a compliment, he doesn’t like many.” He moves back to the door. “My room is the next door down on the left side, and my office is at the end. Feel free to explore around the house and make yourself comfortable, I’ll be in the kitchen.”

(side eye)

Kara sits down, still petting the cat. When Tseth leaves, she murmurs to the cat. "Cute…" She sighs and leans against the wall. She keeps her bag to herself, quiet.

The cat bumps his head against her arm and then takes an interest to the dried blood that was still on her face. The cat stares at it before jumping down from the bed and trotting out to the living room.

Kara sighs, not following to animal, but silently wishing she would. She curls up on the bed, looking sad. Then, she slowly goes back to looking empty.

After several minutes, the smell of food being cooked filled the air. Tseth must be making dinner.

…Or at least trying to. Usually if he even did make dinner, he’d make something quick. But he figured he would at least try to put some effort into it this time. And he wasn’t doing too bad at that.

(Adorable-)

Kara felt sick from the smell. But this time…it only lasted for a moment. Surprisingly, she felt…hungry? Or maybe she was sick. Yeah…sick. She was never hungry. She was just sick again.

(I'm gonna leave whatever the food is to your imagination lol- my brain vibes with the idea of it being some kind of meat with some vegetables with an unknown extra type of food also there but go wild)

After some time–it seemed long, but maybe it wasn't–theres a knock on the wall outside Kara's door paired with Tseth's unmistakable voice. He cleared his throat and spoke. "Uh, I made dinner. If you want some." He had made enough for the two of them and some extra for leftovers. He tried to get a small variety so there'd be something she liked. He figured she might not eat much regardless, though.

(Yeah. Im thinking deer or something, broccoli and mashed potatoes. That kinda cozy meal-)

Kara looks up, looking confused. It appeared that she wasn't used to that kind of gester. She was used to having to refuse food. Or not receiving any at all.

Kara felt bad for turning down the food. Especially from how hard he seemed to work on it. But also, something in her needed to say no. Someone else was hungry.

She then pauses as flashbacks of her crying siblings filled her mind and ears. Their hungry sounding cries making her heart ache.

Kara shook her head slowly and hides her face.

(flashbacks because my dad has made that meal before lmaoo)

Tseth makes a concerned expression at Kara, and his voice showed it even when she wasn’t looking at his face. “…Alright. I’ll put your plate in the fridge. But you know, I’m not letting you starve yourself.” That most likely meant that tomorrow he would try and make her eat something.

(Oop- make way guys I'm physic-)

Kara doesn't respond, quietly crying as she keeps her face hidden. Though, if she were to look at Tseth or anything else, she would look just fine. It would have looked like she wasn't crying at all.

Tseth quietly left and went back to the kitchen to eat his food and put away the leftovers. He put Kara’s plate in plastic wrap and placed it in the fridge, and then he took his own plate of food and began to eat it.

The cat walked up to Tseth at the table and rubbed against his legs before staring up at him. Tseth smiled at him and gave him a small piece of the meat on his plate. He started talking to the cat in Russian, somewhat out of habit.
”Not sure what I’ve gotten us into. We’ll see how it goes, yeah? Just try to be nice to her. I know you’re terrible at that.”

The cat only tilts his head at Tseth and then leaves once again, headed back towards Kara.

(XD cute)

Kara holds onto a pillow, shuddering. She was tired…but too on edge to sleep. Too much had happened…she was still trembling slightly. Too much…

The cat suddenly jumped onto Kara’s bed again. He made a little “mrrr?” sound and nudged her face with his head.

Kara squeaks slightly, looking at the cat. She took a moment, then pet the small animal.

The cat curls up next to Kara. It was getting late now, making the room dark save for the lights on in the other room. Eventually those shut off too though, and Kara could hear Tseth walking past her door to one of the other rooms. He clicked a light on in whatever room he went to and closed the door. He must not have been planning to sleep himself.

Kara sighs softly and curls up, absently stroking the cats furr. Somehow, it was very calming for her. She relaxed. Even if it was just a tiny bit.

Then, something popped into Kara's mind. Not really a thought of her own, but…like a forced realization. Something told her to follow this man. She hadn't moved from that spot ever since it happened…but this? She got up and followed a complete stranger. It almost felt like…something pulled her…

Kara takes a deep breath. She didn't wanna think anymore… So she would just shove all that down and hope she didn't doze off like last time.

The cat looks at her as she leaves. He decides to just stay on her bed and sleep.

When she got up, she saw which room he went to. The office at the end of the hall. The light on in the room streamed through the crack at the bottom of the door, indicating he was there. There wasn’t any sound coming from the room.