Firestone Hot Springs vegetable man, where are you?

n-not there?

but

that couldn't be!

how could...elyisum not be at elyisum

the pallid creature staggers back as if he's been struck in the chest, not even noticing the little shadow's own pain as he became a victim to his own. sure he'd left elyisum but that's because he could go back it couldn't, no it wasn't GONE. his breaths increase until they shift from his chest in rapid movements and he falls into a crouch, wispy tail wrapping around willowy wimbs as if it could hold him together. he doubted it though, he felt as if his entire world was crumbling. 

because elysium was solid and his...family? it didn't matter that he'd left them all behind without it seeming to spur a moment's doubt or hesitation and continued to wander the flatter grounds a shrinken, hollow creature rather than just go home. that didn't mean he didn't...care! he just...he didn't know, he just..now he did want to go home and apparently he couldn't! that wasn't right.

blunt claws dig so deep into the damp earth that bright, crimson liquid leaks free to stain pale hairs. reif doesn't even notice, instead he raises a little contorted face, sage eyes uncannily bright as he splutters; "y-you're wrong! that doesn't make any sense, it can't..just be, gone?" tears stream freely now as he looks away, pushing a sniffly nose into this forelegs- he just wanted it to be quiet and the second question posed at him doesn't seem to even reach slicked back ears.