[quote=@Tatterdemalion][b]Adila![/b]

Dandy takes the sandwiches, and takes a great big bite, bigger than you’ve usually seen from her. “Sakes alive,” she says, with her mouth full, “Ah’m more starved than a rattler up a tree, Ah tell you what...”

She flops down into a chair, lifting her hooves. “Looks like you’ve had a heck of a time, huh, puppy? Awww, come put your head here, Ah’m not [i]mad[/i] at you, Ah just... Ah just need more time to give it some thinks up in my brain-pan, hun.”

She scritches you in the best place right behind your ear and your tail goes thump thump thump, dragging a chair along with it.[/quote]

+That's not...+ Adila's thought slowly started to drift in, coming into focus like a radio tuning. +That's not what I wanted to say. It's not about me. I wanted you to know that...+ 

A shiver ran through her as she pushed through the impenetrable wall of comforting physicality. She sat up straight, eyes sharp and clear again, in a posture that wasn't at all canine. 

Then she reached out and took the absurd straw hat off Dandy's head - and crumpled it in her claws.

+I wanted you to know that this isn't how I see you,+ she said. +Eupheria's curses are [i]cruel[/i]. I don't know if it's playing on your insecurities in the same way it's playing on mine, and I think it's playing on others. But the Princess Dandy I see isn't a joke or a rube or in any way simple. The Princess Dandy I see is the wisest, most intelligent, most dangerous princess in Hyperborea. Of every princess I know you're not just the one I respect the most, you're also the [i]only [/i]one I [i]fear[/i]. If you wanted to turn the world on it's side you wouldn't need the Caduceus to do it.+

[Healing Sense]