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"You don't need to be scared, Beryl. This little guy wants to hurt you about as much as you want to hurt it."

Beryl couldn't tear his eyes away from the creepy-crawly currently clung to Mr. Theo's arm, blinking back at him with far too many eyes. "But I don't want to hurt it." Beryl responded. It wasn't a lie, he didn't want to hurt the bug. He just wanted wanted it as far away from him as possible.

"Exactly." Mr. Theo smiled at him, the young boy having solidly proven his point. "This tuck-tuck just wants to live it's life, munching on leaves, going on nice walks in the son, and just having a good time. Sounds like any other creature, doesn't it?"

"I mean, kinda..."

"But something about it still makes you feel uncomfortable."

"It's..." Beryl wasn't sure how to put it into words, the rumbling in his belly and the squeezing in his shoulders he felt looking at the bug. Theo could tell him that it wouldn't hurt him until he was blue in the face, but the fact that it was there, and that it could possibly hurt Beryl in a way he didn't know to look out for made him feel bad.

"A tuck-tuck looks a lot different from a Teni or a Scarfit, right?" Theo guided him gently, not bringing the bug any closer, but not taking it away either. As much as Beryl was afraid of the bug, he trusted Mr. Theo, who had been taking care of him since he was a baby. "They're different, so you don't know what to expect. People get real scared of things they don't know, that they don't understand. What if I told you that this tuck-tuck didn't have a big enough mouth to bite you with?"

"It doesn't?" That surprised Beryl. It was as big as Mr. Theo's hand, and it had a mouth that little?

"Nope. If it did, it would have tried to bite me when I went to pick it up. Remember how it went into it's shell? That's what it does when it gets nervous, like how you hid behind me."

Beryl stopped trembling as bad and leaned in to get a better look at the bug, this tuck-tuck. The creature merely wiggled an antenna back at him.

"It won't work all the time, but most things get better and less scary once we know things." Theo said before lowering his hand and letting the tuck-tuck skitter off into the greenery, "That's why we should never stop learning about new things. Because if we let ourselves be scared of things because we don't understand them, we live pretty sad lives where we never get to meet new people or do new things. We should always try to learn more about the world around us. Don't you think?"

Beryl watched the bright bug disappear into the grass. "I think so."

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Needed more practice drawing adults, so decided to draw NPC Theo getting philosophical with little Beryl

9/39 Gehms

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Description

(488 words)

"You don't need to be scared, Beryl. This little guy wants to hurt you about as much as you want to hurt it."

Beryl couldn't tear his eyes away from the creepy-crawly currently clung to Mr. Theo's arm, blinking back at him with far too many eyes. "But I don't want to hurt it." Beryl responded. It wasn't a lie, he didn't want to hurt the bug. He just wanted wanted it as far away from him as possible.

"Exactly." Mr. Theo smiled at him, the young boy having solidly proven his point. "This tuck-tuck just wants to live it's life, munching on leaves, going on nice walks in the son, and just having a good time. Sounds like any other creature, doesn't it?"

"I mean, kinda..."

"But something about it still makes you feel uncomfortable."

"It's..." Beryl wasn't sure how to put it into words, the rumbling in his belly and the squeezing in his shoulders he felt looking at the bug. Theo could tell him that it wouldn't hurt him until he was blue in the face, but the fact that it was there, and that it could possibly hurt Beryl in a way he didn't know to look out for made him feel bad.

"A tuck-tuck looks a lot different from a Teni or a Scarfit, right?" Theo guided him gently, not bringing the bug any closer, but not taking it away either. As much as Beryl was afraid of the bug, he trusted Mr. Theo, who had been taking care of him since he was a baby. "They're different, so you don't know what to expect. People get real scared of things they don't know, that they don't understand. What if I told you that this tuck-tuck didn't have a big enough mouth to bite you with?"

"It doesn't?" That surprised Beryl. It was as big as Mr. Theo's hand, and it had a mouth that little?

"Nope. If it did, it would have tried to bite me when I went to pick it up. Remember how it went into it's shell? That's what it does when it gets nervous, like how you hid behind me."

Beryl stopped trembling as bad and leaned in to get a better look at the bug, this tuck-tuck. The creature merely wiggled an antenna back at him.

"It won't work all the time, but most things get better and less scary once we know things." Theo said before lowering his hand and letting the tuck-tuck skitter off into the greenery, "That's why we should never stop learning about new things. Because if we let ourselves be scared of things because we don't understand them, we live pretty sad lives where we never get to meet new people or do new things. We should always try to learn more about the world around us. Don't you think?"

Beryl watched the bright bug disappear into the grass. "I think so."

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Needed more practice drawing adults, so decided to draw NPC Theo getting philosophical with little Beryl

9/39 Gehms

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…