Aurora - Rean Heart

[awakenerd]

You float in a void--darkness around you, above, below, in every direction, nothing. You stand on nothing, you even breathe nothing. But you do not feel in danger, you are not suffocating. You are simply existing in… Nothing.

Crow | Towa | Dusk | 80H | Rufus

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[awakenerd]

"....Of course you didn't, you have perfect diction."

[voreaciously]

"So kind of you to notice."

Man, this is fun.

She wants to fish with him, though, or something, but teasing him is really good. Who knew! (Crow, probably.)

But she does take a gently glowing blue thumb and wipes the tearstains from his face, at the very least.

[awakenerd]

He looks better with her help! Still grumpy.

"We can fish. If you want."

GRUDGINGLY.

[voreaciously]

But she didn't--oh right, her thoughts. It takes her less than a moment to realise and remember.

Oh, that means he must be hearing all her thoughts about how cute and charming he is like this, what good grump. This side of him is Pretty Good, actually.

"Ah. Very well, then."

[awakenerd]

He knows she's having fun!! HOW DARE.

He grumbles and picks up the fishing rod and goes to where it looks like this is a good spot or whatever.

[voreaciously]

She gets her own rod and picks a spot close to him, leaving enough room between them.

Ahhh, worth it.

She casts a line, but keeps her thoughts carefully blank, letting the setting take its course for her. She doesn't want her fishing to be predictable, after all.

[awakenerd]

What a brat!!

But he fishes next to her, settling slowly into the peacefulness and enjoyment of just... Fishing.

[voreaciously]

But she's not doing anything, Instructor? She's just here, doing nothing! Thinking about how great and cute you are. But that's not doing anything? Gosh!

But fishing is...nice. It's nice to fish with him, actually, she did not realise having someone here like this could be. She's...come to enjoy the company of some other people, but it's fewer still those that she can enjoy near complete silence with. It feels...fuller, somehow, but not stifling.

[awakenerd]

Brat brat brat

He's not saying anything though, and he is getting calmer and less depressed as the (infinite?) time wears on. Nothing really seems to need to be said. It's peaceful, and the company is nice, and that's enough.

[voreaciously]

Cute cute cute

She is not certain how much time passes, and she isn't certain her internal clock will help her on that matter, but she gets an itch at the back of her mind that she ignores at first--she's good at that--but it persists, and she allows it to because she knows it's right.

She needs to move on.

She catches another fish and releases it before reeling her line back in.

"Perhaps I should get going, soon...."

...

[awakenerd]

He reels his line in, not looking at her.

"I guess so."

It's not like he cares or anything!

[voreaciously]

...

"Um, Instructor? Thank you...for looking out for me."

She won't say when!! And he likely won't remember shit so she can say it now.

[awakenerd]

Grumbling! Setting his rod down and crossing his arms.

"I don't remember doing anything like that." Except maybe when she was a kid. But he's not owning up to anything.

[voreaciously]

"I do, so I am thanking you." With gentle firmness. It is easy to be this way when she knows he cannot know it outside his heart, not properly.

Sigh, she really is a terrible and useless coward who can't do anything right, but she's never argued otherwise. Still...perhaps she will make an exception this time and say it properly later, after all, she does not like unpaid debts.

[awakenerd]

"Hmph. Do what you want." Grump. "Not like you wouldn't already."

Evidence, his very nice dwelling instead of corpse mountains.

[voreaciously]

"Yes." The audacity of her, truly.

"Where should I go next, if you had to wager?"

[awakenerd]

hdu

"I can't tell you what to do. Where do you want to go?"

[voreaciously]

"Oh? You cannot?" That's cute, somehow, too. Bet he'd love to.

"I still would like to..." he--aid, she doesn't say. "but I am not certain how. You've a lot of issues...do they all stem from you?"

[awakenerd]

"A lot of them."

[voreaciously]

"I am not certain if there is anything more for you, I will leave the rest to the people who love you as well as yourself."

Her thoughts are carefully blank.

[awakenerd]

"If you didn't care why go to the trouble?"

[voreaciously]

"I am a very troublesome person."

[awakenerd]

"In your own way yes."

[voreaciously]

"So it would follow that I would go to trouble."

[awakenerd]

"Aren't this and that different kinds of trouble?"