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[For a beast so large, they move with surprising hesitance into the hospital room, the pale gleam of their eyes taking in every inch of the girl--and all the battered signs of the attack that nearly cost her her life.]
You're alive. [their voice is unusually thin and uncertain] ...We had thought... [They don't finish their sentence, claws clicking against the tile as they prowl closer to her bed, and their thick jaws eventually settle on top of it, not unlike a dog begging for affection.]
...We had thought that she'd taken you away from us.