[ You know, Eren might be onto something there. While waiting for his business license to clear and failing to find a decent place to live, Maruki is completely unmoored from any semblance of a schedule that he had before, and it's beginning to make him a bit stir crazy. There's only so much sleeping and dreaming counseling one can do, especially when it only serves to wake him up more tired than before. He would like to at least enjoy this free time and catch up on his variety shows that were always on at his favorite late night cafe, but this world has neither variety shows nor late night cafes. It's essentially hell.
For want of anything better to do, and despite his distrust of the suddenly violent locals and other bizarre phenomena inherent to this place, he forces himself out to go for walks. Usually he ends up looping in circles and drawing the ire of some goblin, or getting rained on by fish, so it's not, like, a pleasant experience. Ever. But he does it anyway just for something to do at all.
And this walk is no exception to the rule: Just as he's managed to unstick himself from a loop and try making his way back to the housing district, there is a fucking wolf heading straight for him.
Are you supposed to make yourself big and scary with wolves, or play dead? He has never done a day of wilderness survival training in his life. He's going to die here. He'll get to experience Inferna like Maki threatened, because a fucking wolf mauled him to death.
He ducks down, covering his head with both arms and yelping out a panicked litany of ohgodohgodohgodohno until– ]
... O-oh?
[ He peeks out from beneath one arm. Takes in the sight of the wolf just staring at him. Blinks. Tries to remember how to breathe. ]
Um... hi. Are wolves friendly here?
[ Who is he asking? THE WOLF? He's losing his mind. ]
i'm losing my mind please BIG HUGE BUPPYYYYY
For want of anything better to do, and despite his distrust of the suddenly violent locals and other bizarre phenomena inherent to this place, he forces himself out to go for walks. Usually he ends up looping in circles and drawing the ire of some goblin, or getting rained on by fish, so it's not, like, a pleasant experience. Ever. But he does it anyway just for something to do at all.
And this walk is no exception to the rule: Just as he's managed to unstick himself from a loop and try making his way back to the housing district, there is a fucking wolf heading straight for him.
Are you supposed to make yourself big and scary with wolves, or play dead? He has never done a day of wilderness survival training in his life. He's going to die here. He'll get to experience Inferna like Maki threatened, because a fucking wolf mauled him to death.
He ducks down, covering his head with both arms and yelping out a panicked litany of ohgodohgodohgodohno until– ]
... O-oh?
[ He peeks out from beneath one arm. Takes in the sight of the wolf just staring at him. Blinks. Tries to remember how to breathe. ]
Um... hi. Are wolves friendly here?
[ Who is he asking? THE WOLF? He's losing his mind. ]