Talk about Politics
“I just wanted to be able to talk more about this wonderful pack of yours. Tell me a little bit more about what’s going on here. I’m also interested in how well everyone’s been fitting into the other pack?” You asked, honestly wondering what was going on nowadays. “How does it compare to the way things were before?” you continued.
“Well. Things are definitely a bit better, we’ve had more food, and the waters aren’t getting as warm as it did before. It happened super quickly so I don’t know if it’s going to happen again, but as it stands, we’re still working on relations with the others.”
“Oh? I wouldn’t have expected. To me, it seems like everyone’s just getting along well with each other.”
“It may seem like that, but if you were truly attentive, then you would have been able to see the little cliques starting to form among everyone. I even have suspicions about me losing some of my own suitors. That has been the core of my stressors lately. I worry that this continues, then something bad may happen sooner rather than later…” He said.
“Oh. Tell me more. Tell me more and more and more.” You continued to pressure. You asked about every individual from both your pod and theirs, you asked about the history and what you thought the future was going to be.
“Hey. We’ve talked about a lot. Why are you asking these questions…” He said, kind of suspicious. Honestly, in hindsight, you noticed that after every question, he seemed more and more closed off- he seemed more suspicious of you from all of the important intel and information you two had just discussed. You couldn’t seem to figure out what to say at this point so you just kind of laid there stuttering kind of awkwardly.
After that day, everyone seemed to treat you a bit differently. You didn’t quite notice it until you started to get a bit hungrier and hungrier every day. Despite having lots of food and contributing a lot, somehow, every time you went to get something to eat, everyone else had already had their turn and practically even ate your food out from right in front of you. You kept trying to fight back but the ostracization continued.
Nobody talked to you, nobody helped you out, nobody even looked in your direction. This continued until one day, when your allotted time had ended, you could feel yourself fading away as your game started to reset. It wasn’t the most graceful ending, but maybe you shouldn’t have come off so hard with asking these kinds of questions.
Written by Drifting Dragon on 21 October 2023
The end (for now)