just your shadow on your floor

[Karlach Cliffgate]

« Exhaustion washing over you now that reality is kicking in again, now that you are faced with what you are, who you are. »

Oh, how you wish to reach out for her, to touch her - to be able to pull her into your arms and make sure that she is fine, that everything is fine, that she doesn't hurt, that there is no pain and no cuts and no bruises. How you wish to be the one she could turn to to have a look at her battle wounds.
But you can't, and every day it's a painful reminder of how it is, of how your life is. Of how you haven't been able to touch another person in a century.

You force yourself to smile, a little wary a now, a little tired. Exhaustion washing over you now that reality is kicking in again, now that you are faced with what you are, who you are. Adrenaline seeping through and out of your body after the fight, now just a faint tingle of it being left behind.

Karlach

It isn't too bad.

For someone to look at it right now - something in you suddenly not wanting her to turn around and seek someone else out. It always is like that.

Karlach

Maybe it can wait.

You look around as if trying to find another reason.

Karlach

Everyone else is busy anyway.