[quote=@Tojin]
She pulled out a small chocolate cream with a white filling and pressed it into Moth's hand with an earnest smile; it looked like she really did believe things would get better. "Here, eat this chocolate. You'll feel better."
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Moth looked down at the chocolate in his hand.  He smiled in spite of himself, and wished his outlook could be so simple and full of hope.  In a matter of hours, his carefully constructed world had been torn apart by the Grit, and now he was lost in the dark and without direction.  He just wanted to crawl into the corner and never get up.  And yet.

[quote=@MsChimeric]
“You seem to have a sweet for every occasion. I’m quite impressed.” Kat remarked dryly to the girl. 

“And I like the way you think, too.”
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This was the first time Moth had really been anywhere with people in...[i]years.[/i]  For an unfathomable stretch of time, it was just him, filling his little corner of the world all by himself.  Well, it wasn't quite "going out with friends," so much as "running from living nightmares with a group of complete strangers," but it was something.

It was better.  Moth bit the chocolate in half and his face lit up in the dusty gloom of the hospital ward.  It wasn't caramel.  He hated caramel.

[quote=@rechonq]
He tried not to appear to ancy, but listening to them all worry about feelings and candy and cleaning up their mess was taking to long to him. There was a time for all of that and he did not think it was now. He decided that if he moved on then perhaps the others would follow him. He did think for a moment to realize he hadn't really introduced himself yet. [b]"Hey, so I'm Flor by the way, and I'm going to go scout now."[/b] He said this just before darting through the door titled stairs. 
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Moth swallowed hard.

"Um.  Should we...are we going now?"