[Maedhros doesn't meet him with chastisement, yet for some reason, Joshua feels the need to avert his gaze. As if it were his own brother dealing with his occasional sullen bout as a child.]
[The thought cuts deeper into the still open wound Clive's disappearance has left behind.]
[He's silent outside of the sound of his breaths, deep as he dampens his emotions, and ragged as his lungs rebel. Both are the fault of the nostilium plaguing him, not the elf who has and continues to help him. He has to remember that.]
no subject
[The thought cuts deeper into the still open wound Clive's disappearance has left behind.]
[He's silent outside of the sound of his breaths, deep as he dampens his emotions, and ragged as his lungs rebel. Both are the fault of the nostilium plaguing him, not the elf who has and continues to help him. He has to remember that.]
...I'm sorry.