Miss deka has returned. Have I mentioned that yet? Things are getting back to normal for her in RL, and for us in SL.
We went hunting yesterday, I haven’t been on a hunt since I got so burned out with Enigma. When she asked me if I liked hunting, I let her know that I do really enjoy it, but not to the exclusion of all else (which is what was going on with Enigma). In more proof that she and I are very much alike, she both agreed immediately that doing nothing but hunting would get old quickly, and she seriously kicked my butt in the finds department <grin>. With Enigma, typically we’d rez in, I’d find the prize and TP her to me. It was rare for her to find it before I did. It was a combination of slow rezzing for her and my own hyperactivity looking in every corner. Miss deka found a comfortable majority of the items last night, it was a lot of fun.
On a more serious note, I’ve had a realisation about why Miss deka’s unexpected absense hit me so hard. A few months ago during all the debates about the new Adult Content rules Linden Labs has brought in, one of the senior trainers at FFF abruptly quit SL. She’s never been seen since to my knowledge. This left several subs in a very bad way. One was sitting in her stall at FFF, blindfolded, leashed to her stall, unable to speak due to her bit, for 10 days before anyone knew what was happening. To say she was devastated is an understatement. To say she was hurt doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. She was truly abandoned and may have also left SL for good as a result. Her faith in humanity, and her ability to trust others was severely damaged by that experience. I was with Enigma at the time and we did everything we could to help her once it was known what had happened.
In recounting this to Tara this morning I realised that part of what was going on for me was I was flashing back to what Flame went through. There were some parallels (though not nearly as extreme), and I was seeing myself in Flame’s hooves. I know now that the situations were not the same in one vital way: Miss deka came back. It saddens me to think that Flame cannot share that.
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Ugh, Enigma’s hunting obsession. Thanks for the reminder.
August 18, 2009 at 23:39Anyways, glad you’re feeling better; between SL and RL, you were getting pretty mopey (Dare I say emo?) there.
*hugs*