just your shadow on your floor

[Zenisse Szereban]

There's a smile on her lips but something feels different about it. Not wrong. Just not right either. Maybe it's the battle exhaustion catching up to her. To you. Maybe it's nothing really. Maybe you're reading too much into the corners of her mouths and how high they dare to rise. After all you've only known her for a few tendays now.
Her smile can mean anything -
or nothing at all.

Zenisse

See. Told you.

If she says it isn't too bad then it truly can't be that bad. If anyone knows how much she can take it's that woman right in front of her. And yet - sometimes there's something in her eyes that makes you think Karlach worries you'll fall apart by the slightest upwind. (There's a voice in the back of your head whispering there being another reason for that. You try to muffle the sound until there's nothing left but silence.)

You follow her gaze. Everyone's a little all over the place. Some sitting on the kerbs trying to catch a break. Others walking around. You think to yourself that you should too. Just make your round and check in with everyone. Make sure everyone's safe and sound and that there aren't any more problems in hiding. Any more than the intruder living in your heads.

Zenisse

Hm.

When you notice Astarion and Imza. The tip of a blade held to her collarbone. If this would've happened a tenday earlier you would've thought him to be out for blood. Instead you think - well, what exactly is there to think?

Zenisse

What do you think that is about? (nods towards them)