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@joelle-stone
Welcome aboard person with the cool pic!!!

@wingiby-iggiby
Oh I don’t (usually) write down other people’s emotions but I’ll spend little pockets of time sorting out like whether I’m frustrated because I’m frustrated or because I soaked in somebody else’s frustration. Then I can spend whole hours trying to figure out why this random person I probably only made eye contact with is frustrated and if there’s anything I can do to help.
Have you ever had that thing where you find yourself upset just because the atmosphere around you is upset? (Or is that just me…surely I’m not the only one who does this?).
Didya know that humans can actually smell fear they just don’t consciously register the smell, but that’s why you get this gut feeling of an “ominous feel”.
Have you ever done the Sixteen Personalities test?

“It’s pretty old, you can take it or leave it.” Ax Girl–or…how did you say her name?–offered a dry loaf of bread in a sort of awkwardly gruff way. Ehud had actually anticipated everyone blowing him off, he turned pink and stammered something incomprehensible even to him before sheepishly accepting. It must have been hard to sacrifice her own meager supply of food to a complete stranger. He fumbled trying to break it in half and it ended up snapping unevenly. Uncomfortably aware of everyone watching, Ehud handed back what seemed to him the slightly bigger half (if only by a couple millimeters) and gave her a quick, shy smile.
“Cool accent,” he stuttered “thanks!”
He shifted his weight from one foot to the other feeling like there was something unsaid that he had to say but he couldn’t remember what it was. He opened his mouth to say something, closed it and almost made a move as if he wanted to hug her but knew better than to try. So he stuffed the bread in his mouth, suddenly realizing he really was starved. His stomach was twisted into so many knots it hadn’t really registered how hungry he was especially with everything that had been going on. He knew it wasn’t healthy to eat too quickly after starving for a while; that’s how a lot of people rescued from Concentration Camps died. You can literally burst from inside to…his stomach hurt, no wait that was because he still had two books stuffed under his jacket.
When he unzipped his jacket they tumbled out with a loud thud, loud enough to make a couple people jump and glare at him. Opting for just pretending he didn’t do anything, Ehud dropped crosslegged on the floor mechanically fumbling through the pages of the book because he was too overloaded with sensory information to do anything. Every finite detail of the past hour or so pingponged in his brain like neon lights. A lot of neon lights. With sound effects.
Ax Girl–who did have a name but Ax Girl just came for naturally–she was in trouble. He got that distinct annoying gut feeling about it. Maybe she was lying about her name–No, that was ridiculous. So she was in trouble, but she was also really kind! (And had a really cool ax). There was something else but it was too murky to get anything on it. Who was she when she wasn’t in survival mode? He shook off the thought and tried to read. It was something about…something about earlier heroes…
Erin Murder of Intergalactic–International, why does he want to say Intergalactic?–Trade is…unstable. Grownups are unstable, a lot of them, he felt like she was running from something inside her, kinda like his mother he guessed. She left when he was four or five. Ehud visibly shook off the thought and glared at the page.
Something about earlier heroes…oh, they were in the castle before them…I think. This was interesting, he really wanted to be able to read it.
Was he supposed to be doing something?
He couldn’t get a clear read on, Arab..no, Ahoe, Ahab! Well, he was a villain, or was he? No he was a villain, he just didn’t feel as unstable as Erin. And the fairy was a cadet, he was pretty nice, Ehud completely lost the fairy’s name.
This was the tenth time he’d read this paragraph and he still couldn’t figure out what he was reading!!!
Was he supposed to be doing something? He had the distinct feeling he’d forgotten something but he couldn’t remember what he’d forgot. He slammed the book shut very nearly hurling it across the room. Sighing disconsolately, he peeked into the second book, which appeared to be a picture book.
“Hey this is where we are!” Ehud blurted out with his mouth full. “Lookit! Lookit!”
He dashed to Ax Girl and almost pushed it into her face in his eagerness. She grabbed it mostly to get it away from her face while he crammed the last bite of bread into his mouth. Bobbing over her shoulder he pointed to the picture and it suddenly lit up.
“I didn’t do it!”