>>24610632"Er.. That's a sad story and all and I'll admit it has me looking at you in a somewhat different light but can I pause here and bring up this?: How do black men, flowers, and me tie into this again?"
"I could probably tell you if you didn't keep interrupting. I don't remember indicating that I was done."
"O-Oh! Sorry.. Er, continue."
"Right. Anyhow, I needed to get out of there. Find somewhere new, find some way to survive. I knew the cult would try and stop me if I did, I was already on their bad side. If they caught me, I'd be next on the racks. I refused to let their pagan judgment shit fall upon me. I took my Mareep friend, the only person I still cared for that wasn't already one of them, and we fled. Our destination? There wasn't one."
"The road was unending, unyielding, unwavering, there were obstacles at every turn, and a fork in-between each. It's hard to pick a path when you never know if you've picked right or wrong, and it wasn't long before they discovered we were missing, hence all the flunkies that came to bring me back."
"We had to defend ourselves. Mareep stepped up to do just that, and was forced to grow up far too soon as a result. I can't even call them 'battles', it's too light a term. It was pure bloodshed, all in black and white."
"By the time he had fully-evolved, he was no longer a cute ass lamb chop. Not the one I recognized. But we pressed onward, and eventually, the road came to an end, as did our time on that world.."
