I misclicked when adding the image to this chapter. The image should be a quote.

Also, c!Pine lore time! Originally in the collab, I believe I had c!Pine as a sniffer hybrid in the beginning? I do want to change that. I'm sorting out lore as I go and I think when the Watcher/deity took c!Pine, her code got mutated from being in the void for so long. It gave her sniffer ears? How that works, idk.
I am changing c!Pine's pronouns to she/her. Gender is out the window rn <3 (this is only for my character, I will still use she/they)

TW: Mutation, Slight frostbite, Injury, and Loss of consciousness.

Pine had been floating, the cold hurt, she hurt, everything hurt. Then a flash of light and it was too bright—

She blinked.

The cold was gone, replaced by a blanket draped around her. Her limbs felt stiff and the tips of Pine's fingers were slightly blackened from the cold. She groaned and opened her eyes. The light was too bright. Why was it too bright? Oh. The void.

She looked around and the shopping district stared back at her. The hand... those purple robes, why had she been so foolish?! She went to run a hand through her hair when she stopped. Her ears... she ran her hand along them and gasped. What were once human ears were hanging down and oddly fluffy towards the bottom.

That was new.

Martyn hadn't known what to think when he escaped into the void for the second time that day. That was a lie. He was going back for whoever— oh. That was Pine. The Listener knew he was bad at math but surely this much time in the void was bad for anyone? He'd have to ask Cleo later. He grabbed on to the unconscious silhouette and focused on getting both of them out of the void's icy grip.

Flash and he was back in Hermitcraft.

His eyes rolled back into his head as Martyn crumpled. Pine, who he had been holding, fell out of his loosened grip and kind of just... rolled. The hermits gathered were silent for a few moments in shock before Naya had spoken up. "Pine!" She cried, rushing toward one of two unconscious people. Stress was by her side (after helping Scar) and applied healing potions to Pine's frost-bitten fingers while Joe checked Martyn's wounds.

They were in for a long day.