‘Do not ask your children to strive’ by William Martin
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
“Taako. Hey,
Taako? Hey, so listen, I want you to turn me into a cat.”
“Wha… the hell,
what time is it?”
“It’s
morning,” Lucretia says promptly, unblinking. “And I only now realized you
can just turn me into a cat. Y'know. Magic.”
“Magic.
Yeah,” Taako mutters, looking blearily at her. There’s a long
moment where he just breathes out slow, rubbing sleep from his eyes. “We
talking something cool? Like big cool jaguar that can eat your face?”
Characters:
Lucretia, Taako
Additional Tags: The Stolen Century Parts 1-7, Miscommunication, Trust Issues, Dark Comedy, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, Team Bonding, Canon Compliant, Happy Ending, Crack Treated Seriously, they’re all idiots your honor, In this house we love and support Lucretia, IPRE Crew | Starblaster Crew as Family, Post-Apocalypse, found family on speedrun, Sleepovers
Summary:
First Cycle. As far as they know, they’re the only ones left. Perhaps it was inevitable that they’d consider… repopulation. Lucretia writes up a weekly schedule to try and address that. Absolutely no one is happy with this.
Chapter 9: Taako’s Night (No) (in which Taako and Lucretia fight it out in the kitchen in the middle of the night and definitely don’t have anything in common or are stressed about anything)
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