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[indent][indent][indent][color=gray][sub][right][color=F9FF22][b]Location:[/b][/color] The Dungeon, The City-State of Thorinn, Aetheria[/right][/sub][/color]
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Kalie kept on crying and rocking herself back and forth because her tears wouldn’t stop coming. She was always a bit scared as a younger girl, but she wanted to be like her older sister Susan. Her older sister was the family model, the greatest and most well-liked woman with loads of cash on top of it. It made her remember when her older sister reluctantly gifted her this game and its peripheral to go with it. She was wholly happy about that specific gift that her older sister finally gave her something after all the dismissals and annoyances. [color=F9FF22][i]’ I-I tried so hard… but my sister constantly stayed her selfish, narcissistic self no matter what. In-game or out of the game, always dismissing me as a lesser…’[/i][/color], Kalie thought to herself, with more tears coming from her. She was choked up, much from all this and all that might happen in the future.

It didn’t take much to make her, even more, break down when she heard Alja scream in the hallway somewhere. Kalie was too much cowering and fearing the entirety of what might happen to her, even to comfort another. She was never once comforted by her sister, not even when she fell on her knee and scratched it when she ran a little too fast. It hurts much because she didn’t think no one would comfort her either, since all anyone would call her is [i]crybaby Dawn[/i]. She tried to be the friendly young girl to do whatever she wanted, but everyone in and out of the game used her. The homework was dreadful, but multitasking was her go-to because it's better than dealing with no one passing. [color=F9FF22][i]’ Used and Abused… only to be discarded like the trash I am… that’s what my sister said one day...’[/i][/color] Kalie thought to herself, with shattering herself.

Kalie was a bit shocked when someone put their hand on her shoulder, and she moved her head slightly to see who it was. It was even more shocking it was Rael, of all people, the one person her [i]avatar[/i] absolutely despised, but it felt sincere enough. She couldn’t help but continue to cry because this is like the first time anyone actually cared about her. No one before this moment actually did care for Dawn, and they only cared about themselves. [color=F9FF22]” R-Rael...”[/color] Kalie said a bit in shock. This type of shock was different from the shock of learning they could die. It made her tear up even more when Rael showed true compassion and put her other hand on her shoulder that didn’t have a hand. She heard the words that Rael had said and was utterly shocked. [color=F9FF22]” I-I’m s-so sorry… I-I believe you… T-Thank you… you are like the first person… in my life that said anything reassuring to me, like ever...”[/color] Kalie said. It is the one thing she wanted for all her life but never gotten it until now, under the strangest of circumstances. She never knew that someone like Rael, of all people, was compassionate.

It was something to behold, and she’ll take this moment and hold it in her memories. Kalie should’ve been much nicer to the people around her in-game. She always had bad thoughts rolling in her head about every single person in her life wanting to use her. However, she felt like Rael wasn’t that type of person from what she had said to her. It made her try to collect herself because her entire being was splitting apart slowly. Her tears were still flowing, but not as much as they were. It has been a while since she has broken down like this, but she trucked on, but this time she couldn’t truck on so hard as she had. [color=F9FF22]” I-I can’t believe this… It’s scary, Rael. How can you be so calm and collected?”[/color] Kalie questioned slightly. She wasn’t that good at reading the room or the crowd because of her older sister's problems mostly. Because everyone worships the ground that Susan walks on, as a byproduct of her looking more beautiful than her.[/indent][/indent][/indent]