The other skunk shushed her quietly and helped her to lay out on her side before laying down with her. Laying on a beanbag beside the bed was not a fantastic angle, but from what ey could see, they’d simply curled together, still facing each other, nearly snout to snout and still holding paws.
Eir May sniffled quietly and buried her face against eir chest. Ey wrapped eir arms around her shoulders and just held onto her as she cried as quietly as she could.
An hour later, May and Ioan set up a cone of silence above them so that they could sneak silently out of the room to leave the other two skunks be. Neither had moved or made a sound other than May asking True Name if she was okay in a quiet murmur and the other skunk shaking her head.
+Once the door was shut behind them, May groaned and padded over to the kitchen. “That was very hard.”
+“Why, do you think?” ey asked.
+The skunk took a moment to pour herself a glass of water before replying. “I want to be here with you, and I also want to be in there with her, and I also want to go back in time and tell her I do not want to merge, and I also want to go back in time and merge instead of End Waking, and and and…”
+((More, but I am so, so tired.))