hold me in your arms tonight.

[coldbrokenlight]

Characters: coldbrokenlight and fallforthesky
When: ...Today?!
Where: Nesreca Lenalee's roommmm.
Rating: Should stay PG-13..!! plus the occasional swear word, maybe.
Summary: The one where Kanda visits and they sit around quietly. Except not really.

Comments

teal... deer......

[fallforthesky]

Lucky for him- though it's less luck and more I don't care anymore, I'll stay here- Lenalee is in.

See, she's been sick. She's been tired. She's been quietly going insane, losing track of the days because when she got sick and got tired, there'd been no one to keep etching them into the wall for her. But out of everything that she's been lately (and she's been a lot of new things), it wasn't prepared for Kanda (hers or otherwise) to come and seek her out.

("Seek her out"- as if she's hard to find these days. Ha ha.)

It never happens.

That's why, when she answers the door, it's slow and wary; she's not sure if it's really him, or if she's just being wishful, or if something's happened (about to happen, happening) and she's needed. But it is Kanda, and he looks so much older, somehow ...fine, so she pulls the door open wider and stands aside, legs quietly knock-kneed. It's clear to anyone who knows where to look that the last four and a half months haven't been easy on her, even if it's only visible in the faded circles under her

[fallforthesky]

They have already been here longer than necessary. Everyone. Right? Some of them... nearly a year. Others for even longer (although she has less affection for them than for her comrades). Still, Lenalee nods and lets her smile fade into a quiet turn of her lips.

"Oh." She's a little surprised he'd agree to not cutting it, then. "It does get a little difficult to handle when it's longer."

[coldbrokenlight]

The thought of being here long enough for his hair to grow out even more is.. both unimaginable and scary. No wonder Lenalee and the rest of them look the way they do.

"You've managed somehow." But then, she does have two regularly functioning hands.

[fallforthesky]

They really are beginning to look worn down, aren't they? Hah.

"I haven't had to in a while." A few years, now, right? Nesreca's thrown her sense of time right off, so who knows anymore. "Maybe it'll be harder when it's that long again."

[coldbrokenlight]

Like a path used far too much. There's always patching it back up, but either way, it won't be the same road. Won't be the same person.

"Maybe. Hopefully it won't get to that." But like most hopes, it's an empty one. Empty words that he directs mostly towards the ground. To her: "Sure you don't need more sleep? I can. Leave."

[fallforthesky]

Hah. But they will be. She's heard that what memories you gain in this place don't follow you home. They'll be none the wiser, in the end; even if their bodies might remember.

"No, don't." A little too quickly. "Go, I mean."

She... really wants him to stay, somehow.