[He's supposed to handle things like this on his own. He and Y'shtola had never talked about it, in the short span that she'd been around — but then, they've never been good at talking to each other about matters of tempestuous personal feelings, have they. He's not told Ryne. Maybe he doesn't want — maybe it's better that she doesn't know. It's behind him, anyway. He can bundle it up and put it away, and keep walking.
He's supposed to walk away from people when he feels like this, not toward them. Take his warring emotions and go far afield with them until he's cut them out or shut them up or both. It doesn't usually come to someone saying come here, come to me.
It takes him a humiliatingly long time before two and two come together and it occurs to him that their positions might have perfectly reversed from where they'd been before, that right now maybe it's Reno lying alone and thinking I wish I were there, I don't want you to be alone, I wish there were aught I could do only about the frigid nothingness of space instead of the icy hell of the Northern Crater.
Reno might be saying, I don't want you to be alone with this.
...Him?]
Mm, all right.
[Does he deserve that?]
I'll bring something? I go right past the Thavnairian curry place on the way.
no subject
He's supposed to walk away from people when he feels like this, not toward them. Take his warring emotions and go far afield with them until he's cut them out or shut them up or both. It doesn't usually come to someone saying come here, come to me.
It takes him a humiliatingly long time before two and two come together and it occurs to him that their positions might have perfectly reversed from where they'd been before, that right now maybe it's Reno lying alone and thinking I wish I were there, I don't want you to be alone, I wish there were aught I could do only about the frigid nothingness of space instead of the icy hell of the Northern Crater.
Reno might be saying, I don't want you to be alone with this.
...Him?]
Mm, all right.
[Does he deserve that?]
I'll bring something? I go right past the Thavnairian curry place on the way.
[Does it matter?]