Angel - RF - Where do you go to be alone?
I'm going to avoid the whole metaphorical "I'm always alone" stuff, since even though I may think that way most of the time, getting that philosophical about my unique circumstances isn't my favorite thing in the world. And after a couple of years out here, I've come to realize that it isn't actually true.
The answer's really pretty simple: I head for the dark.
Yeah, it's easy to talk about how that's pretty much my natural habitat, being a vampire and all, but that's different. Dark to a vampire means freedom from the sunlight that turns us to ash. It means cover out of which we can strike at prey. And I guess in that damn metaphorical sense, it's home to the evil part, the demon part of us that craves blood and violence.
For me, though, darkness is more like a curtain, I guess. It's what I use to cut me off from people around me. When I've "got a good brood going" like Cordy would probably have put it, the retreat I prefer is my office, with the blinds shut tight, the door locked and all the lights out. Hell, I've even done it a couple of times here at Wolfram & Hart, though with an office twice as big as the old Angel Investigations, it's a little tougher.
Too many glass walls, too. Hmpf. Maybe I should look into changing that.