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[He doesn't feel guilt. At all. It's not Pokey's fault his new "sister" ended up drinking the milk last time. And besides, what happened to her wasn't so bad. It was just a hallucination. So there was no reason at all to feel bad for having let her drink it.

But he does. He can't stop it. He does. So that's why he guesses he ended up drinking it today, despite knowing just how stupid that was of him.

And then? He just felt....weird.]

[Well, someone got hormone free milk today! Feel free to find Pokey going through a variety of emotions throughout town.]

A. Overwhelming Happiness

[My god. He just feels wonderful. And Pokey really just can't contain it. It's a light and bubbly and free feeling, and he can't help but find ways to express it. In ways he'd usually find pretty stupid, but you know what? He doesn't care. For the most part, he can be found just strolling down the street, humming to himself happily which is just bizarre if you know who he is. Or you can find him chasing birds at the park, laughing happily to himself as he waves his arms, scaring them and forcing them to scatter. Or you can find him at the playground at school, despite it being closed, tearing ass around the playground. He especially seems to like the swings, standing up on the seat as he swings to and fro, laughing.]

B. Crushing Despair

[Hey is that a fat kid just nearly bawling his eyes out in public, despite his best efforts to hide it by scrunching up beside a building or trying to duck into an alleyway.

Yep. Sure is. Dear lord is he crying.]

C. Insane Rage

[Oh look it's a giant spider mech stomping down the street. And on your car. And smashing your mailbox. Hey. At least the thing isn't destroying houses.

Yet.]

D. Unremarkably Morose; locked to 502 Ricardo Street

[Hey other residents. Feel free to notice that Pokey is at the kitchen table. Just sitting there. Writing. He appears to be writing a list of names, and descriptions of people. And occasionally? He takes off a small, plastic four-leaf clover pin he has attached to the lapel of his shirt and stares at it.]

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"Sure! Yesterday the milk made me crazy so... I kinda get it."

Yeah. There's a lot of tricks the town plays like that. Better get used to is.

[Because he's gotten used to it so well.]

"Hrm... I'll keep that in mind. Still, I guess I kind of wonder why."

[She shrugs a bit]

Because it's run by jerks and they act like jerks. What is there to wonder?

....There's probably more to it than that. But right now that doesn't matter.

"This seems like a lot of effort for your average run of the mill jerk. Its like no jerk I've ever seen."

Best I can come up with at the moment. And I dunno. I've met some pretty terrible jerks.

[But yeah. He had other ideas but...even this depressed? He didn't want to bother the other girl with them. Not after having been lifted as much out of his depression as he was.]

"Well, I'm sure someone will figure something out, or some crazy white knight type will charge and someone smarter can watch them get squished and figure something out from that."

Much as I'd like to think that'd work?

Kinda betting he probably has that idea covered somehow.

"Has anyone actually tried?"

No, because it's suicidal.

"Has anyone tried to enable someone suicidally stupid to try?"

Not that I know of.

Like I said, be willing to try and help you find someone.

"I'll keep an eye out... Maybe Brother or Miakis knows someone..."

"Though I still have to find that brother of mine..."

....Your brother probably didn't come with you.

Mine didn't.

"I was told he's here. Just no one told me where."

Sure they may not have told you that just to shut you up?

"If he wasn't here I wouldn't ask every 15 minutes. Seems like that'd defeat the point."

Eh, sometimes people do stupid things to try and get kids to shut up. God knows my parents couldn't find out how to get me to.

"Maybe its why they didn't want me leaving the house while this milk thing was going on. But, I fit through the basement window so..."

Windows are always pretty classic. I got to the point where I could get out the window from my room on the second floor and scale it down to the ground within about 30 seconds or so.

"I'm just a novice to the sneaking out thing. Back home it really wasn't worth it due to the sheer BULK of guards, here, there's just like two."

Yeah but you're a queen or some crap, right? Had to be a lot of like, secret passages or interesting ways to get out of a castle, if you had tried.

"There are guards posted at most all of them. I had to go through this super coup last year that put everyone's paranoia level about a million times higher than it should be. I mean, the people involved all got killed horribly so..."