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"F*CK! I dropped another one! Cleaning? Vacuuming? Dishes?! Freaking WALKING and SHOWERING?!!! I SHOULD be able to do this! He's not even home! I should've been fine! Why is it getting worse?! Why can't I focus?!! And then... then there's these..."
"Oh wowie. Fighting the urges again, am [b][u]I[/b][/u]?

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"Shut up... I can't keep having these thoughts."
"Oh goodie. [u][b]I[/b][/u] should really stop doing this to myself. It's so unsightly. I should know that this, all of this, isn't going away anytime soon. Why hurt [u][b]myself[/b][/u] so?"I would know that-"
"I said SHUT UP. You're not real to begin with! He's barely been gone for a few days. I can't be that lonely yet!"
[i]"It's not about me being real or not. [b]I[/b] did promise I'd stay offline while he was out of town, despite knowing what it'd do to me. It's about needing to face the obvious... something [b]I'm[/b] clearly not confronting~ My body has needs that shouldn't be ignored for as long as [b]I[/b] have. And this is merely one of many."

[i][u]"What would Hector say if he saw me like this?"[/i][/u]

When Hector's out, when Sylvy-Chan is offline... what are we left with?

"Continuation of this":https://www.patreon.com/posts/tangled-morning-115954427
The funeral and not being able to draw for 3 days has kind of supercharged me on this. So this "mini-arc" has evolved into something... [i][u]more.[/i][/u]