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[fancypost=background: transparent; line-height: 15px; width: 400px; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;]Rain thrummed against the boy's windows. He didn't dare leave the safety of his room, where strangers didn't threaten him with their presence every second he was outside. Thunder cracked and he jumped, certain that somebody was banging at the panes of glass shielding him from the outside world, trying their best to get in. Dick couldn't take it anymore. He hated living in fear, but he didn't know how else to live, at least right now. Nothing felt safe since his parents had died.
Finally, he rose from his spot in his room and exited, stepping into the hallway to get away from the noise of the storm. Olive eyes stared blankly and hollowly at his door for a long time. The child didn't know how long he'd just sat there staring, listening, waiting. But it was certainly a while. Eventually he rose to his paws and trudged to the kitchen (wherever that was- he was just letting his paws lead the way at this point) for something to drink. His parents had always made him tea before bed, and even though the memory of them was fresh and painful, the tradition wasn't one he could miss. Dick fumbled around until he got in a position where he could reach the cabinets, where he hoped cups and tea bags were stored. But... there was one problem. He could only barely brush them with his paws. The child wasn't tall enough to get the door open on his own, let alone drag anything out of the shelves inside without making a huge mess.
"Uh..."
What would he do now?