text; transport service announcement

[encourage]

For those of you who may have noticed the petting zoo that's shown up in the courtyard overnight, a word of caution:

In a city which is not overflowing in pet stores, when something claims to be offering animals for adoption with no one checking for owner suitability, and all of the animals offered coming from local wildlife, you should probably think three times before even touching what's penned up out there.

Wild animals are meant to be wild. Acting as tame as they are with no keepers in evidence is suspicious when any keeper who spends the time necessary to properly socialize an animal to be okay with the loud, strange ways people move should be putting potential adopters through the grinder.

- H. Sakura

Comments

[redheadcarrier]

it's stupid. why do they think we can win their war for them?

[encourage]

Because unlike them, they can keep bringing us back, and we don't change when history changes.

[redheadcarrier]

i hate it when people think i'm disposable.

[encourage]

I'd say show them you're not, but it's not worth wasting energy gaining regard from people who see you as a means to an end. You know you aren't disposable, so you act like you're not disposable. That should be part of being good enough.

[redheadcarrier]

but I'm not just some girl from some stupid alternate universe - i'm important!

[encourage]

( Ouch. Ouch, and this person doesn't even know it. )

What mattered back there doesn't mean a whole lot for who you are or what you're worth here. Important or unimportant, I don't know what you are, or what you were supposed to be back home.

It's a different topic, but all I'm interested in is how important you make yourself here. Not be claiming airs, either, though you're free to do as you like.

[redheadcarrier]

[Ooops.

Although Sakura's words are cutting a bit closer to home than she realizes as well. It takes her a minute or two to come up with a response.]

I don't want to be like everybody else.

[encourage]

You're not.