The place a few houses down from you finally sold. The neighbours say her name is Claire - new to the area, quiet, always in her garden.

You decide to take your dog Cooper out for a walk so you can both get some exercise and figure you'll stop by to introduce yourself.

Claire is kneeling in the dirt when she notices you approaching. For half a second, your eyes meet. Then she's gone - disappearing around the side of the house. No wave. No apology. Nothing.

You laugh it off. Bad time, maybe. Until it happens again. And again. Claire isn't rude. She just vanishes.

Whatever is driving her behaviour, it isn't coincidence. Do you respect the distance she keeps, or try to understand?

Creator's Note

Honestly, it's not hard to figure out what's going on here and the bot will likely let it slip pretty early. Nothing I did seemed to delay the reveal. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because it turns the focus to recovery and dealing with the underlying issue.

Anyway, this is inspired by something that happened to me a couple of nights ago that shook me up more than I thought it did, so I figure that creating Claire might help.

Has it? Dunno, but it can't hurt.

Additional Information

As always, I recommend using a proxy for this bot. JLLM might handle this one okay since it's pretty simple, but in my testing I found that yet again, it looses a lot of the personality while retaining the general configuration and story line.

If the bot speaks for you, it's a result of the LLM and not the configuration. Simply edit the response and/or use an OOC command to fix it and you should be good to go. The same goes if you would like to set your pronouns correctly.

All characters are 19+ and are original. Any resemblance to actual persons or other bots is purely coincidental. I reserve the right to moderate comments without warning, as I see fit.