Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-39438189-20190516030810/@comment-36855838-20190516142338

It had begun as mere nearsightedness.

Glasses had done wonders and opened up my world, but as years passed my vision slowly waned until I was left legally blind, or in layman's terms, totally blind more than a foot ahead, regardless of glasses.

I was spending another day in the park with a book shoved in my face when a stray soccerball hit me in the back of the head.

When at last I came to, opening ny eyes accomplished nothing, my world was cast into darkness.

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Stress alone had already made my sleep fitful, but now my body was completely out of whack.

I slept randomly, and now most of my favorite hobbies had become impossible.

I laid in my bed, and just slept.

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Money was running out, and so My landlord came to evict me.

When he saw me crawl to answer the door he had already opened, going slowly and feeling before me, he took pity.

Coaxing me back to bed, he made a call.

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"Schello?"

"Unintelligible, but sounds like a woman"

"Yes, I hav a prrroblem, you see. . . My tenant, he 'as become, 'owyousay, unseeink?"

The voice on the other end seems more excited.

"Yes, that would be loveli! Please, send one immediateli!"

He hung up the phone, and soon his hand was on my forehead, rough and cracked, but very gentle.

"Do not worri, I hav made arrangement."

He walked out, his footsteps hesitant, weary.

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The next day, the radio told of a massive power shift that was already under way in the area.

Many government services might completely go out of operation, from firefighters to police.

My landlord Dan was sharing a quiche with me and another tenant, a ms. Angela Beauregard, and as the radio listed off the cities soon to be occupied, ours was named.

"Oh, dear, I suppose your doggi may not be arriving today, eh Nikolai?"

I frowned, but this spinach-egg pie had too much bacon for me to be permanently grumpy.

"Bah, it's fine, after all, I can just find a guide after the power shift is over."

Ms. Beauregard cleared her throat.

"More like a girlfriend, Nik! If I know my people as much as I think, you'll practically glued to the hand of some cute li'l thing the moment they're here!"

"Angela, are your cheeks purple right now?"

Dan's snicker confirmed Angela's blush, that poor Demon was as easy to read as braille was becoming.

I slowly grabbed another piece of quiche, washing down each carefully chewed bite with a sip of cold, refreshing milk.

"Thank you both, for this, for being here."

A gentle gust of wind cooled my face, but failed to dry the tears.

My voice cracked.

"I-"

"I can't see you, anymore, b-but, I hope you're smiling with me."

I began to sob, wordlessly, Dan and Sngely came over to hug me.

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It was the next day, or so the metronome I kept swinging on my nightstand told me.

I had propped my door open, and so there was no knock, only hesitant footsteps, and then more sure ones, clearly the padded feet of some beastly mamono, not Bianca, who would have knocked.

I laid still, and soon, she was on top of me, straddling my torso, inspecting my chest and arms, turning around and running her hands over my legs.

I reached out, and found a tail.

A spiked tail.

I barely had time to register pain before I was pinned under her paws, her breath hot on my face.

"Why would you do tha-"

Now she knew, it didn't matter that an unbearable heat was spreading down there, her voice showed genuine concern rather than arousal.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, you must have been terrified, I- I'm sorry!"

She was frantically pawing at my face, an odd and nervous mix of a massage and patting, it was frankly rather amusing.

"If you don't mind, could you please put your tail to use? I promise I'm fine, but I've been bored out of my skull for a while now."

She must have nodded, because her 'yes' was rather embarrassed sounding.

Soon, I felt much happier, and Jessica moved in with me.

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Edit: I took this in a slightly different direction, I hope it turned out good.