[ McGillis certainly read the breakdown post, though he couldn't be assed to check the comments as well at the time. It'd been just a random public embarrassment back then.

And it hardly feels relevant now, when McGillis has spent the past few weeks watching Izou cozy up to the people from his palace, wagging his tail happily at every bit of attention someone deigns to give him. ]

You still crave it, don't you? A place to belong, people to stay with. You may not think you can have it, but you're looking for it all the time.